News 2013
Opening Doors and Fighting Stigma: John Curry
One in a series of profiles of the 2013 fellows in the Black AIDS Institute's African American HIV University's Science and Treatment College.I'm a 51-year-old adherence educator for Unconditional Love, Inc., a health service organization in Melbourne, Fla.
Years ago I had quite a few friends who just died suddenly. I could never get concrete answers to what happened. What saddens me today is they didn't know what they were going through. They literally died not knowing or understanding the disease that killed them. Sitting in the hospital talking to many of them, HIV was the last thing on my mind. Knowing the symptoms and progression of the disease as I know it now, at least a couple of them most likely died having never even been tested.
Eight Days Until Open Enrollment -- and Counting
For all the talk about an AIDS-free generation, it will not happen if there is not a healthcare financing mechanism that helps people living with HIV/AIDS and/or at risk of HIV infection access the treatment and care they need and deserve.
Fighting Stigma and Ignorance: Milton Hadden
The first in a series of profiles of the 2013 Fellows in the Black AIDS Institute's African American HIV University's Science and Treatment College.I am 52 years old, and a true native of Oakland, Calif. I'm Oakland to the bone, and I'm sorry we have this devastation caused by the epidemic of the virus.
I recently finished my master of divinity training from Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and my ministry is coming to fruition through this AIDS epidemic. I'm starting my doctoral studies in psychology at John F. Kennedy University, outside Oakland. My planned dissertation will look at how the church can improve AIDS education by partnering with various segments of the community.
Coming Out: Craig Washington
One in a series exploring the lives of people who have chosen to be out about their positive HIV status.
I aggressively hid my infection in the summer of 1985 when the lymph node below my left ear swelled first to the size of a raisin, then a walnut. I can clearly recall one moment two or three years later, standing at a corner in New York City's Greenwich Village, explaining to activists Colin Robinson and now-deceased Craig G. Harris that my lymph nodes were swollen because of sarcoidosis. They knew that I was lying, and I found their pity embarrassing.
Campaign To Enroll LGBT Community In Health Coverage Launched At White House
The White House hosted a summit on Thursday to promote Out2Enroll – a campaign that began to connect the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community to health coverage.
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