Florida's AIDS Drugs Assistance Program is facing a $14 million budget gap- more like canyon- and HIV/AIDS activists, lawmakers and drug companies are trying to find a solution that tides over state residents until the new fiscal year begins on April 1. To read the...
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5 Things About HIV They’re Not Telling You- by Mark S. King
Mark S. King of the wonderful site, My Fabulous Disease, recently sat down with Sean Strub to discuss "Five Things About HIV They're Not Telling You". It's the antithesis of Death Anus, in that they discuss real science and hopeful information about HIV and how much...
My Pet Virus “Book Club” on Facebook
When my humorous memoir about growing up with HIV was published in 2006, I was doing a lot of self-promo for the book on MySpace. I hardly ever log into that account these days, because it's a Spam Hole. Even though Facebook slinks closer and closer to the same fate...
India, Marriage and HIV
The latest issue of Poz Magazine is out, and there's a great cover story on the stigma of having HIV in India and how married women in that country are often scapegoated and ostracized for contracting HIV from their husbands. Doesn't make sense? Then read the...
Scare Tactics in HIV Prevention
In case you missed it, an ad for HIV prevention ran in NYC and was met with mixed reactions from the HIV/AIDS community. Here it is: The "Death Anus" ad, as Sean Strub called it, is obviously aimed at the sexually active extremity of the gay community. You'll notice...
Must-Read Poz Blog Entries
So I'm a little winded at the half-way point of my Month of Blog Entries, and that is why I'm handing off to a few other Poz Bloggers today, because there are quite a few entries that I think you should check out. At the beginning of the year, Poz Editor-in-Chief...
Shawn’s Tool Academy Welcomes: Larry Brown
North Carolina state representative Larry Brown, in discussing his support of opposite marriage, decided he'd chime in on HIV funding issues. He said: "I'm not opposed to helping a child born with HIV or something, but I don't condone spending taxpayers' money to...
Bad News: Virginia + ADAP Waiting Lists = 🙁
Some sobering news came across the Poz Newsfeed two days before Christmas. I wanted to wait until after the holidays to bum you out over it. Here's the story... December 23, 2010Virginia to Move 760 ADAP Clients to Waiting List Nearly 760 people currently in...
A Field Trip Down Memory Lane
Set your DVRs and Tivo for this one- tonight at 9 PM (EST) Anderson Cooper takes a look back at the last 30 years of HIV/AIDS. Included in the special will be comments from Jeanne White, Ryan's mother. From the Poz Newsfeed: "It was on June 5, 1981, that the Centers...
There She Goes, A Miss America Who Cares About AIDS
On Saturday night, Caressa Cameron will be passing her crown on to the next Miss America. Caressa is unique in the world of pageants due to her understanding of HIV, and that it is a problem that needs to be addressed in- you guessed it- the United States. The last...