Early life

• At six weeks old "Baby Girl Kelloggs," as she was then called, was placed in the home of Patricia and Loren Broadbent. The Broadbents already had four adopted children: Kendall, an adult, Paige and Kimmie, who were teenagers, and Briana, who was only three years old. They had served as foster parents for numerous children, including other "drug babies" like Hydeia. Loren Broadbent worked as a glass contractor. Patricia Broadbent was a veteran social worker who had left that stressful line of work to become a supervisor for a printing plant. She was still active with children, however, serving as the unit director for Boys Club of America and executive director of Camp Fire Girls, as well as being a foster parent.

• When Hydeia came to the Broadbents she weighed less than six pounds and was dressed in doll's clothes because she was too small for infant wear. She had problems eating and often experienced crying fits, but the Broadbents did not find her problems unusual for a child born to a drug-addicted mother. The Broadbents took care of Hydeia until it was time to take her to an adoption fair to hopefully place her with a permanent family. Loren Broadbent was so distraught at the adoption fair over questions about Hydeia's race that he decided the baby should stay with them where she was already loved. He was a white man married to a black woman and he was indignant that a baby's race would affect her chances for adoption. Hydeia was named by Briana Broadbent who saw an episode of Sesame Street where a couple brought home a new baby. The television baby was given the Swahili name Hydeia and Briana thought it would be a great name for her new baby sister.

• As a baby Hydeia was chronically ill she had the chickenpox several times had numerous respiratory infections and became very sick from regular childhood immunizations at the age of three the Broadbents finally understood the cause of her illness she had caught HIV and was abandon by her birth mother the Broadbents heard a story about a child who was believed to be the first AIDS baby in Las Vegas and that the two babies shared the same birth mother.

• Patricia Broadbent (her adopted mother) and Diana Dowling attened a national pediatric AIDS conference in Las Angeles California. Hydeia was started on a drug therapy plan consisting of recombinant cd4 and DDI she had regularly scheduled visits to the NIH and she would return whenever she was sick hydeia and Patrica spent a lot of time at the NIH away from the rest of the children

Became AIDS Activist • Patricia Broadbent had been speaking about

AIDS publicly in support of Reach Out for years and Hydeia would often accompany her mother to these talks. Often when her mother was speaking, Hydeia would pipe in to remind her mother to mention something important or to contribute her opinion. Soon Patricia Broadbent began letting Hydeia speak for herself also she made an educational video called I need a friend one of her most notable sayings was “My time is not going to be too long in coming, but until then I'm going to keep educating."

Beating The odds

The doctors said when she was very little she wont make it to five but she beat the odds and now is a 24 year with a boyfriend

Quiz

• Where was she abandon

• @ a hospital

• In a cab

• In a theather

What are her adopted parents name

Mickie and Jeff

Amber and Rich

Partica and Loren

How Old was she when she got hiv

• A new born

• 2

• 24

Who did she get HIV from

• Her birth mom

• Her sister

• Her dad

Where was she born

• Las Vegas

• New York

• Boston