Living With Aids

Remembering Brian Hughes - Innocence, Prison, Mental Illness, AIDS and Family

Patrick Hughes, Jr | Posted 05.09.2012

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Patrick Hughes, Jr

My parents discussed with me what it was like to raise a child with mental illness. I am forever grateful to my parents for making Brian part of our lives, and for their extraordinary generosity in sharing his story with people we have yet to meet.

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Advice for a Young Man Newly Diagnosed with HIV

Bren Shucart | Posted 01.31.2012

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Bren Shucart

When I tested positive in the spring of 2005, it felt like the end of the world. HIV was this boogieman that I had been taught to hate and fear since before I really understood how sex worked, and suddenly this monster was inside me.

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Outliving Myself: Advice from an AIDS Elder

Robert Levithan | Posted 01.16.2012

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Robert Levithan

I am 60. I have lived half my life with HIV/AIDS. This is my normal. When I tested positive as part of a study in 1983, no one would have expected me to be here, let alone be thriving. Not many of the first wave are here.

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Stopping AIDS Together

Modesto Tico Valle | Posted 01.08.2012

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Modesto Tico Valle

These next few years are the most critical yet in our long race to a cure for AIDS. The LGBT community and our allies must sound the alarm again, just as we did nearly 30 years ago.

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HIV's Derailment Doesn't Have to Mean HIV's Denial

Thomas DeLorenzo | Posted 12.25.2011

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Thomas DeLorenzo

AIDS, in spite of nearly taking my life just a few days before, was giving me a new one. AIDS would be the precise reason I would go to law school, for there is nothing like fighting for your life with an insurance company to make you wish you had a J.D.

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Miracle Workers

Alexandra Billings | Posted 12.09.2011

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Alexandra Billings

For my fellow Americans who are ill with whatever they're ill with, and whose time, like mine, is limited, we have to shut out the noise of people on the right who aren't able right now to open their hearts wide enough to hear the call of mercy.

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More People Living With HIV As Treatments Extend Lives, CDC Says

AP | By MIKE STOBBE | Posted 08.02.2011

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ATLANTA -- New government statistics show about 1.1 million Americans were living with the AIDS virus in 2008, an increase of about 71,000 from 2006. ...

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It's World AIDS Day. Who Cares?

Myles Helfand | Posted 05.25.2011

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Myles Helfand

World AIDS Day -- just like any Wednesday -- needs to be about one person, taking one moment, to teach one new thing about HIV/AIDS to a person who loves them and trusts them.

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