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The AIDS2022 ‘No Pants No Problem’ Party Lived Up to its Name
When Jessica Whitbread was twenty years old, her physician told her after her HIV diagnosis that she had maybe twenty years to live. She responded to the news by getting involved with a number of...
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WATCH: Monkeypox Activists Disrupt AIDS2022 with Rageful Protest
There was something more than the typical passion on display when activists stormed the plenary stage at AIDS2022 today to protest the slow monkeypox response by United States public health officials....
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Here’s the Complete AIDS2022 Coverage from My Fabulous Disease
Clockwise from top left: Attendees at “For F#cks Sake;” with survivor Tez Anderson; a massage in the ‘Positive Lounge;’ a reveler at ‘No Pants No Problem;’ the monkeypox protest; with activist Jade...
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A Chat with New Reunion Project Director Jeff Berry
Jeff Berry, newly named director of The Reunion Project The Reunion Project has always held a special place in my aging heart, probably because the national network of long-term HIV/AIDS survivors...
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A Free Online ‘HIV Criminalization Academy’ has Launched. We Need It.
“There is no greater form of stigma than when it is written into our laws.” SERO Project founder Sean Strub made that notable remark years ago, in regard to what he considers one of the great moral...
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Five Takeaways from the 2022 U.S. Conference on HIV/AIDS (USCHA)
Some of the ferocious women of USCHA; Rick Guasco hugs it out with Ace Robinson; Tik Tok personality Brian Thomas; a Puerto Rican performer. After scrapping the in-person USCHA conference for two years...
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Advocates Try to Halt a Wacky, Dangerous Book from an HIV Denialist
We all know the saying about freedom of speech. It doesn’t mean you have the right to yell “fire!” in a crowded movie theater. That kind of speech can risk lives. But what if the theater is already...
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ACT UP Veterans Have a New Pursuit: Their Memoirs
K.M. Soehnlein’s “Army of Lovers” is the latest book from an ACT UP NYC alum. There must have been something in the water at those New York City ACT UP meetings back in the day. There had to be. The...
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HIV Survivors Look Back, and Explore the Meaning of ‘Getting to Zero’
Caprice Carthans, Jeff Berry, Evany Turk, Rae Lewis-Thornton, Martin J. Gonzales Rojas, and Sanford E. Gaylord in the documentary ‘HIV and the Journey Toward Zero.’ There are so many governmental and...
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Heading to USCHA 2023? Here’s Inspiration for You.
You know what a fan I am of the annual United States Conference on HIV/AIDS (USCHA), produced by NMAC. I’ve been writing about it for years, and providing videos and photo essays for those of you who...
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