But less than three months after the homecoming that allowed him to quickly find medical care to begin treatment for drug addiction and to manage his HIV, the scenery took a dark turn when Hurricane Maria struck that September.As the storm approached the island, Díaz León, 39, knew that the already fragile HIV infrastructure in Puerto Rico would potentially fall in the days that would follow.
So he refilled his medication before the storm made landfall, getting himself a one-and-a-half-month supply that would provide some crucial stability in the aftermath of the storm.Once Maria made landfall on the Caribbean island, life for most residents was immediately turned upside down as the electrical grid was decimated, infrastructure shattered,.