Blessings!
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3y ago
Happy fall, y'all! I hope we're all doing well. I hope we're reading, eating well, and taking care of our well-beings. If not, than let's get on that. I'm sure many have assumed I left this blog by the wayside. Quite the contrary. I've spent the bulk of this year stretching You. Me. HIV. from an underground HIV community to a real-live book! One thing I realized when I first started this blog, was how much work had to be done in order to educate Americans on what HIV is, and what life looks like for long-term survivors, the newly-diagnosed, and those who are living at high-risk. Because of ..read more
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PrEParing For The Future
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3y ago
"The argument is over for PrEP. If you use the drug, it works."   - Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, at The 2015 National HIV Prevention Conference Illustration by: Clarione Gutierrez Pre-exposure Prophylaxis is the controversial practice of using antiretrovirals to prevent HIV infection. When taken properly (one pill, every day) the prophylaxis can build up to a 99% immunity against HIV. Extensive studies prove that *even when taken just four times a week, the pill reduces the risk of co ..read more
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HIV 101
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3y ago
When I speak to friends, loved ones, and internet trolls about HIV, there's a lot of missing facts and outdated information. Whether I'm explaining the difference between HIV and AIDS, or, why the stigma is doing more damage than the virus itself, people have no idea what I'm talking about. I was on the verge of defriending anyone I thought would never get it, until I remembered what this blog is all about; Helping Ignorant Victims. Victims to their own ignorance, living in a world with no idea that the same virus that changed life as we know it is making a ..read more
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Good Luck, Charlie!
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3y ago
Charlie Sheen did something pretty rad Tuesday morning. He had the balls to admit to contracting HIV to a merciless and misinformed American media, putting to bed the mythical "Hollywood Suparstar's Desperate Battle with AIDS" (way to go, Radar Online) . By the way, how much longer are we going to take professionals flamboyantly mistaking HIV and AIDS (Howard Stern, please rise)? I'd also like to know when we got so dick deep in judging others that we abandoned our compassion? Seriously. Seriously! Where the fuck is our compassion? Because, I didn't hear it in that shit ..read more
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AIDS Jokes and Those Who Shame Them: Who's Getting the Last Laugh?
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3y ago
      Question: How do you turn a fruit into a vegetable? Punch line: AIDS This 'joke' was told to me at work. Let's translate: How do you kill a homosexual? Punch line: AIDS. *In the state of New York, 80% of newly diagnosed AIDS patients lived in New York City *100,000 New Yorkers have died of HIV/AIDS related causes *Men who have sex with men make up 4% of the US male population, but account for almost 78% of all new HIV infection *93% of new HIV/AIDS diagnoses among females in New York City were in black or Latina women in the first half of 2011. I ..read more
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What To Do When Your Bestie Finds Out She's Positive
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3y ago
"At least it's not legionnaires disease. They don't have a pill for that, Baby!" That was one of the first things I said (and regretted) when my bestie told me she'd been living with HIV for a year. Even though there's been extreme advances in the treatment of HIV/AIDS over the decades, there's no such thing as the 'right' virus. I regret resorting to comparing one serious disease to another in order to make her feel better. I knew better, but there was great struggle trying to speak as though I did. I was fucking stunned. Because I was aware of the statistics, and, because she ..read more
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Why I Won't Stop Talking About HIV
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3y ago
February 13th, 1990. I’m home from school watching the Phil Donahue show.  Don’t ask why seven-year-old me had no desire to watch child-friendly television; I haven't the slightest idea. In a land far away, many moons ago... before things went ‘viral’ and newsfeeds telling us what to care about, the Phil Donahue Show was a true Huffington Postesque outlet. Sexism, racial tension, economic decline, all topics Donahue stirred in his pot. My young eyes and ears absorbed more facts and realities than they were built to take in. Still, I would sit with my Bagel B ..read more
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