By Amy Fletcher  In an analog era, newspapers and magazines provided much of the essential HIV/AIDS reporting in the United States by disseminating updates on the evolving medical consensus that shaped an emergent pandemic politics.  Among the popular magazines of the 1980s, Playboy had a unique vantage point on the crisis. The AIDS epidemic ―

Mark S. King covers every angle in ‘My Fabulous Disease: Chronicles of a Gay Survivor’   By POZ Staff  Writer and long-term HIV survivor Mark S. King has never shied away from sharing his opinion. His thoughtful essays about surviving with the virus — and living life fully in the here and now — are emotional,

By Juan Michael Porter II  We should fight for the rights of transgender people because it is the right thing to do and because trans rights, like Black rights, queer rights, and HIV rights are human rights — point blank, period.  I recently spelled that out to a former friend and fellow same-gender-loving man who

A new organization addresses the needs of people living with HIV and long Covid  By Sarah Hamilton  JD Davids has long played an important and visible role in the HIV response. He continues to do so today, working at the center of many intersecting issues, including chronic illness, social justice and — as the founder

By Neal Broverman  “What do you like about your body?† That’s typically one of the first questions that therapist, life coach, author, PrEP promoter, and longtime HIV activist Damon L. Jacobs asks his guests on his YouTube show, “Tub Talks with Damon L. Jacobs.†This query is posed while Jacobs and his guests (mostly men,

By Charles Sanchez  A couple of years ago, a friend of mine called me a deadbeat. Not directly, but she worked at the time for a city health insurance company, and fraud was her hot button. She was talking about people who were on disability but were healthy enough to work.  “They’re lying! They’re cheating

In this essay, Tom Perrault recounts his journey toward hopefully controlling HIV without medication  By Tom Perrault  “Oh, I have a study that you’re going to join,†my doctor, Lisa Sterman, MD, MPH, said to me almost flippantly. It was August 27, 2020, and I had gone to see her in San Francisco for my

By Jeff Berry  By now we’ve all heard the statistics: 50% of people living with HIV (PLWH) are over the age of 50, and by 2030 it will be 70%. When we talk about HIV and aging it always tends to sound like a laundry list of everything that can possibly go wrong as we

IAPAC president and CEO José M. Zuniga reflects on the current humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and how you can help  By Jienna Foster  Over the past four weeks, Ukraine has become the focal point of international attention as it pushes back on Russian military aggression while enduring the hardships that war inflicts on combatants and

By Bridgette Picou  As a woman, I know what it feels like to be invisible. As a Black woman, that feeling is sometimes intensified. It gets juxtaposed with occasionally being the person everyone is looking at, but not really seeing. In a time of “racial reckoning†such as what’s currently going on in the world right