Tomorrow Gwenn and I are heading out again, only this time we are going to be doing an HIV education program called "Bugs in the Bedroom". It differs from "A Boy, A Girl, A Virus" in that it also focuses on general STIs and involves a lot of props and role playing...
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V-Day 2009: Good Turnouts!
It's not usually a manufactured holiday I choose to indulge in, but I have to say that this year's Valentine's Day was highly enjoyable. Perhaps that's because it wasn't spent alone, and there were two events that could have been, well, lonely. And they weren't. The...
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Is today. Check out blackaidsday.org to learn more. Also check out Poz's interview with Kevin Fenton, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Should there...
Hemo2Homo Labworks
So guess whose lab results come up on my "My Pet Virus" Google Alert? None other than Steve Schalchlin, the Ebert to my Roper. Here's what he posted on Monday, in no way colluding with me... "Also went to see the doc... My highest t-cell count to date: 525. And a...
Heapin’ Helpin’ of Lab Results
I know the numbers on everyones' minds are the points scored at the Super Bowl (I predicted it right!). But I got some good numbers of my own recently: my latest HIV lab results. The viral load is undetectable, and the CD4 (t-cell) count is 523... the third highest...
Survey Says
Poz magazine and NAPWA (National Association of People With AIDS) have teamed up with the American Psychological Association to make sure that mental health issues for positoids are not overlooked. There's a brief, anonymous survey here, if you are HIV positive, or a...
Not the Follow-Up to My Pet Virus
For a brief moment, I considered writing more funny AIDS stories for my second literary venture. With My Pet Virus' sales gasping at this point, I'm glad I opted to focus my creative energy elsewhere. Don't get me wrong, the book did well. The response has been...
Heart Feldt: A Tribute to David
Gwenn and I are finally home, having swept in and out of "The Little Apple", Manhattan, Kansas this week, our last talk of World AIDS Week 2008. We just made it to K-State, too. Wisely we'd taken the first flight out from Richmond, which meant we landed in Kansas City...
World AIDS Day
Today marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. Wear a red ribbon, tell someone you have AIDS even if you don't. Make people aware in any way you can. Be creative! To think back to the first World AIDS Day, one year after my diagnosis, is a bit trippy... I did...
Veteran’s Day
In the last week, Gwenn and I sent out about 800 postcards to colleges and universities, informing them about our safe sexiness. It's something we've been doing since the beginning of our campus speaking career back in 2000. The hope is that the schools like it enough...