Dizz, a member of the Toronto-based band rIVerse, is ready to share his story. On September 14, 2020, he went in for a routine sexual health check-up. "Due to some depression and a downward spiral, I had started to engage in some activity and behavior that was risky and self-destructive," a coping mechanism he picked up as a child.
That was the day Dizz found out he was HIV+. It was "difficult, challenging," he reflects. "I literally felt like I had died and everything that I was up until that point, it died away."After he was diagnosed, Dizz anxiously called his boyfriend.