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Playboy Magazine Was a Model of Reporting on HIV/AIDS in the 1980s

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

  • February 7, 2024
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Sharing a Life, a Diagnosis and a Future 

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

  • October 11, 2023
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A Reminder of Why We Must Protect Trans People 

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

  • July 5, 2023
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Long COVID-19 Justice 

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

  • April 5, 2023
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PrEP Advocate Damon L. Jacobs Gets Real (and Naked) in Splashy Web Series 

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.

  • January 4, 2023
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How I Ended My Disability Benefits and Navigated the Frustrating System 

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,

  • December 6, 2022
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My HIV Cure Trial 

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

  • October 4, 2022
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The state of HIV and aging 

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%.

  • August 3, 2022
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#WeStandWithUkraine and HIV-Affected Ukrainians 

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

  • May 5, 2022
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As a Woman 

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

  • April 6, 2022
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