Tami Haught has spent decades of her life on political advocacy.

Diagnosed with HIV/AIDS 33 years ago, she dedicated many weeks at the Iowa Capitol starting in 2005, urging lawmakers to reform HIV criminalization laws and allocate more funding toward a program that ensures access to medications for those with HIV/AIDS who are uninsured and under-insured.

Sitting in the Northeast Iowa Welcome Center entrance on Aug. 8 in Nashua, the town where Haught lives, she pointed to poster boards packed with photos of her at the Iowa Capitol alongside other advocates for her organization, the Community HIV and Hepatitis Advocates of Iowa Network.

She held up framed photos of her three grandchildren surrounded by signatures from Democratic and Republican presidential candidates she followed on the c

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