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I Don’t Want to Stop Saying ‘AIDS’

By Tim Murphy  Like many folks, I’m on a daily text thread with three of my closest Judys (as the young queers, perhaps in a sweet nod to the original

  • January 5, 2022
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The Activist Doctor

Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, is tackling HIV prevention nationally By Alicia Green Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, remembers the day he felt called to become an HIV doctor: April 23, 1995.

  • August 4, 2021
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I Had to Get Past the Stigma of Having HIV

Then I Had to Do the Same for Mental Illness. By Mariah Wilberg I was 19 years old and pregnant when I received my HIV diagnosis in 2006. “This is

  • June 4, 2021
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Black AIDS Institute Founder Phill Wilson on Living Through Dual Pandemics

By Ashley Innes  We’re coming off a historic year in 2020. A year that devastated us and empowered us. A year that tested us and made us stronger. A year that

  • May 4, 2021
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Concrete steps

The Biden-Harris administration must make the first 100 days count to end the HIV epidemic By AIDS United The first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration mark a unique opportunity

  • April 7, 2021
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Concrete Steps

The Biden-Harris administration must make the first 100 days count to end the HIV epidemic By AIDS United The first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration mark a unique opportunity

  • February 3, 2021
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Finding Love in the Time of Coronavirus

By Charles Sanchez Our first date was on a Tuesday night. I wasn’t sure it was a date at first, but I was hopeful. To be dating during a(nother) pandemic

  • January 7, 2021
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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • October 30, 2019
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