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Fighting For Our Shot

How HIV activists won their fight for inclusion in a major COVID-19 vaccine study by Rick Guasco Victory came in the form of a tweet posted in the middle of the afternoon on Aug. 5: Pharmaceutical company Moderna was dropping its exclusion of people living with HIV (PLHIV) allowing those whose immune system was stable

  • December 10, 2020
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Positive Thoughts: Finding Hope in ‘Crystal City’

By Jeff Berry In the trailer for the new feature-length documentary film Crystal City, Rob, who is living with HIV and four years sober, says that during his time dealing and using crystal methamphetamine he discovered “there are addicts everywhere, from people living on the street to business executives of major entertainment companies – from the

  • March 4, 2020
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I’m a Beautiful Black Queen Living With HIV, Not Stigma

By Porchia Dees I am a Beautiful Black Queen Living with HIV. It has taken a long time for me to come to terms with that statement because the concepts of beauty and HIV don’t usually go together. Growing up poz and trying to cope with the stigma surrounding my experience has been challenging, to

  • February 5, 2020
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Trans Power

| The lead organizer of the first National Trans Visibility March on DC urges action by HIV advocates in 2020. By Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. Marissa Miller was the lead organizer of the first National Trans Visibility March on DC, which took place Saturday, September 28, in the nation’s capital. Thousands attended the march down

  • November 26, 2019
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Note to My Younger Self

By Jeff Berry Dear Jeff, It’s 1989, you’re 30 years old, and you are about to hear the most terrifying words you’ll ever hear in your entire life: You are HIV positive. Your world will come crashing down around you, and you’ll feel alone and full of shame. I want you to know that you’re

  • October 30, 2019
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How I Contracted HIV Is None of Your Damn Business

By Toraje Heyward How I contracted HIV is none of your damn business. I’m going to tell you what happened, but not because I owe you an explanation. Here goes. My friend with benefits at the time casually suggested that he should get tested because he knew that he “messed around with several different people.”

  • October 16, 2019
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Three Cheers of Victory for Ol’ U=U!

| Sure most HIV advocates have heard of U=U, but how do we get the rest of the world to listen? By Desiree Guerrero For about the past decade, activists and advocates have been working hard to educate the world on a very important scientific fact about living with HIV: that undetectable equals untransmittable (U=U).

  • September 18, 2019
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Viral Control

| The Office of HIV and AIDS Malignancy at the National Cancer Institute coordinates cancer and HIV research. By Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. Robert Yarchoan, MD, is the director of the Office of HIV and AIDS Malignancy (OHAM) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In addition, he is a researcher at the NCI Center for

  • August 7, 2019
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Changing how we age with HIV

By Theo Smart When the dashing and magnificently bearded Dr. Giovanni Guaraldi took to the stage at last fall’s HIV and Aging conference in New York City, and described a nearly 100-year-old person living with HIV, I was more than a bit skeptical. Not of the researcher—he’s done some of the most brilliant research on

  • July 10, 2019
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Last Night a Drag Queen Saved My Life

| How drag queens are becoming the heroes of HIV prevention By Desiree Guerrero My love affair with drag queens goes way back. Since my childhood in the suburbs of East L.A. (an area noticeably lacking in glitz and glamour), I have been fascinated with these magical creatures. My first glimpses of queens were on

  • June 12, 2019
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