Recently, we received an email from a young man named Jesse who asked our permission to use information he found on The Well Project website for a Powerpoint presentation he put together on HIV disease. We were impressed with the work that he did given the resources he found on our website (and elsewhere), and his determination to help those around him understand more about HIV--helping to break down any myths about HIV and hopefully reducing the stigma surrounding it. Jesse has set out to help the people in his life better understand HIV, as well as to help others who are newly diagnosed...
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Today would have been the 44th birthday of my big sister, Ellen…and is also nearing the 12th anniversary of her passing from AIDS-related causes. Ellen is the reason I am so passionate about HIV/AIDS education and have worked in this field for the past 15 years. Ellen was diagnosed back in the early 90s when AZT monotherapy was still a possible treatment option, d4T and ddI were used in combination and protease inhibitors were but a hope on the horizon. When she was diagnosed, she had somewhere around 100 T-Cells and was thought to have been infected for several years already. She was living...
Results of a recent study published in the October issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine are circulating today ( http://bit.ly/2uWu17) on how the feeling of stigmatization that people living with HIV often experience doesn't only take a psychological toll, but it can also have a negative effect on health outcomes. Researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA found that a large number of HIV+ individuals who reported feeling stigmatized also reported poor access to care or suboptimal adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART). This is just one of many reasons why this...