I Am Loved and I Am Loving
I tested positive for HIV in 2008. My world did not come crashing down around me when I received the news. It was hardly newsworthy for this crystal meth junkie. I did not feel especially alone as I left from Howard Brown Health Clinic, tucked away in a seedy enclave of Chicago’s otherwise bourgie-hip northside. I did not cry out of fear for my life. I had lost my life long before then. Growing up in a society that made it institutionally impossible for me to fully and visibly exist in all the beautiful complexities of my identity, I simply didn’t give a sh*t.
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Doing it for the Dead
This year, the future looks more hopeful for people at risk for and living with HIV than ever. Science shows that an AIDS-free generation is viable with the tools and knowledge in our hands and heads today.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a rule to explicitly include HIV/AIDS as one of the chronic conditions states can use to determine eligibility for health homes, which are comprehensive care systems under the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. the health care reform law) for people with certain chronic conditions who receive Medicaid.
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PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-Free Generation
Vision: Scientific advances and their successful implementation have brought the world to a tipping point in the fight against AIDS. The United States believes that by making smart investments based on sound science and a shared global responsibility, we can save millions of lives and achieve an AIDS-free generation.
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Durex Sets Goal of Donating 2.5M Condoms by World AIDS Day
Condom manufacturer Durex will donate one condom for every consumer who uses Twitter or Facebook to share an HIV awareness message from November 26 to December 1.
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Three Naked AIDS Activists Arrested at Boehner’s Office
Three female AIDS activists who stripped naked inside U.S. House Speaker John Boehner’s office in Washington, DC, demanding a meeting with him were arrested for indecent exposure after their protest, which included four male activists. The activists from Queerocracy, ACT UP New York and ACT UP Philadelphia painted slogans on their bodies such as “AIDS Cuts Kill” and “Fund PEPFAR, Fund Ryan White, Fund Global Fund, Fund Medicaid, Fund HOPWA.”
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Time for a World AIDS Day Google Doodle
To make sure that World AIDS Day isn’t overlooked again this year—it always takes place on December 1—we have started our very own Twitter bombing campaign of Google, asking them to create a Google Doodle for World AIDS Day 2012. So far hundreds of people have retweeted our request, and if you agree it is time for a Google Doodle to commemorate the 25th annual World AIDS Day please tweet…
RT @pozmagazine .@GoogleDoodles should honor World #AIDS Day! Pls RT #WAD2012 #HIV @Google
In Brazil, surveys have shown that the number of HIV cases keeps growing among young people. The radio Station Mix FM could have an important role in this scenario: alert young people, making them feel how easy it is to a virus to spread around. So we’ve made our own virus.
They didn’t have a GoogleDoodle for World AIDS Day 2011. We want to see one this year! Please tweet this…
RT @pozmagazine .@GoogleDoodles should honor World #AIDS Day! Pls RT #WAD2012 #HIV @google
On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2012, President Barack Obama publicly pledged to make an “AIDS-free generation” part of his administration’s legacy.
This past Monday, the president released his proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 federal budget. In light of his recent promise, I hoped his proposed spending levels for both domestic and global HIV/AIDS would be sufficient to begin to end the pandemic.
They are not.
In fact, the president’s proposed spending levels and the reallocation of funds for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) endanger the lives of people living with HIV—both at home and abroad.
At first brush, the president’s budget suggested good news for people living with the virus stateside. Obama requested an additional $75 million in funding for Ryan White programs, including $67 million for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP); $30 million in HIV/AIDS prevention funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and $20 million to support care provided by HIV clinics across the country.
The president included a provision in the budget that if enacted into law would allow local communities the power to use federal funds for syringe exchange, a smart move that will help stop the spread of HIV and hepatitis among injection drug users. And, the budget rejects discretionary funding of failed abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education programs.
The president also proposed a $1.65 billion funding level for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; the increase of 26.9% would allow the U.S. to make good on its Global Fund pledge of $4 billion over 3 years. Click here for more.
(Source: poz.com)
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