Living With Hiv

Black, Gay, HIV-Positive... And Now A College Graduate!

Aundaray Guess | Posted 05.25.2012

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Aundaray Guess

My diploma symbolizes the fact that no matter what obstacles I may face, once I stop blocking my own success, I can do it. Despite the fact that I've been living with HIV for 25-plus years, I now have something I thought I'd never have: an unlimited world waiting for me.

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Mixed-Bag Living

Robert Levithan | Posted 02.11.2012

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Robert Levithan

Is the glass half-empty or half-full? I subscribe to the answer my colleague Sally Fisher formulated: "Both!" Life is both full and empty. When we are only in the empty part, we are suffering; when we are only in the full part, we are in denial.

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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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World Aids Day: 8 Years Poz, the Lessons of Living With HIV

Scott Foval | Posted 01.31.2012

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Scott Foval

It is important for me to tell those who are newly diagnosed to understand, having HIV does not mean your life is over. You have a lot to live for, and I am an example of what happens when one doesn't give up.

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'There Is Life After An HIV Diagnosis'

Mark Mehler | Posted 08.26.2011

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Mark Mehler

Believe me when I say that the more you know, the more you'll realize that there is life after an HIV diagnosis. A wonderful life, if I say so myself.

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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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