By Colette Fahy Ryan Lewis has revealed his mother Julie Lewis is HIV positive. The 26-year-old producer, musician and DJ – who is best known for his collaboration with Macklemore – opened up about Julie contracted HIV from a blood transfusion during a complicated pregnancy with his older sister Teresa in 1984. He made the revelation as he and Macklemore announced their foundation of the 30/30 Project, a nonprofit to raise money for affordable healthcare worldwide, and launched an indiegogo page for it. Scroll down for video Brave: Ryan Lewis is celebrating his mother Julie Lewis beating the odds and surviving 30 years on from her HIV positive diagnosis by creating the 30/30 Project to raise money for affordable healthcare worldwide
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Julie Lewis contracted HIV via blood transfusion after giving birth to her first child Teresa in 1984
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It happened one year before Washington state began testing donated blood for the virus
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She went on to have another daughter, Laura, and Ryan, neither of whom contracted it despite a 25 percent chance
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Husband Scott Lewis also didn't contract it
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To mark the 30-year anniversary of living with AIDS, the family and Macklemore have created the 30/30 project, a nonprofit to raise money for people with the disease around the world
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