Prince Harry just broadcast his HIV test live on Facebook

Prince Harry broadcast his HIV test on Facebook live.
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Prince Harry encouraged fellow Brits to get tested for HIV by putting himself in the patient's seat. In what AIDS and HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust deemed "a groundbreaking moment in the fight against HIV," the Prince of Wales took his own test from a London hospital on Thursday, and broadcast the whole thing on Facebook Live:

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