Growing up Poz and trying to follow American Society’s guidelines for dating and hooking up has been extremely difficult. The guidelines that we follow as a society in regards to dating and having sex weren’t created for people with HIV in mind. They...
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Cali Sunshine greetings! I generally go by Red and am just your slightly above average Cali girl. I love the beach, I skate and I make jewelry. Nursing chose me as a second career and I have been doing it for a little over four years. I'm also HIV...
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Porchia Dees was born HIV positive in 1986 in San Bernardino, CA. At the time there were no HIV medical specialists in her area so she had to be transferred all the way to Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, where she received pediatric HIV medical...
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Once upon a time, I thought and felt crazy to use the word "coming out of the closet.” Yes, I did all I could do to come out of shame, lies, agony, despair, and beat stigma caused by living with HIV for many years. In actual fact I felt cured way...
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Blogging is something I've considered doing for a while however I didn't think it'd be this difficult. My name is Masonia, meaning "She Leads". However, somewhere along the way I got lost I think, maybe I was confused and got stuck or maybe I just...
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I feel my most safest when I'm in an airplane amongst the clouds In the sand at the foot of an ocean or near flowing water With my boyfriend With my children Sometimes with my mom I feel safe when I dance I feel safe when I read books I feel safe...
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There are things that people may not recognize about me because they've just started getting to know me in the last 8 years
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Learn the most common myths – and realities – about HIV: treatment, tests, transmission, and more.
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The Black AIDS Institute (BAI) is the only national HIV/AIDS think tank focused exclusively on Black people. Founded in May of 1999, the Institute’s mission is to stop the AIDS epidemic in Black communities by engaging and mobilizing Black leaders...
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Aprender los mitos más comunes - y las realidades - sobre el VIH: tratamiento, pruebas, transmisión y más.
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I absolutely hate taking medicine. Especially this HIV shit. They told me at the beginning that I would have to take medicine everyday.
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When I was a child, 5 or 6 years old, we lived on the banks of the Tennessee River. I couldn’t swim so I had to wear a life jacket anytime I wanted to go by the water.
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Seven years ago today I met the man that would become both the best and worst memories, and love, I have known to date.
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I have made a few mistakes in my life. Who am I kidding? I have made MANY mistakes in my life. And I ain’t even been alive that long.
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“I still have a dream,” said Martin Luther King, “it is deeply rooted in the American Dream.”