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How Do You Know a Doctor Is Right for You? Here’s a Checklist

If health care providers have to keep conversations confidential, then why are so many of us nervous to bring up the subjects we most need to talk about? Callen-Lorde is a global...

“Uncle Howard:” Offers a Touching Cinematic Tribute

A young filmmaker creates a cinematic elegy for the hero he lost to the epidemic. To the world, Howard Brookner was a rising Hollywood director who died of AIDS on the cusp of his...

Recalling the AIDS Journalists Who Died Covering the Epidemic

One of the most noteworthy community events of 2017 was a tribute to the journalists who have been chronicling HIV from the start....

HIV Is Not a Death Sentence. Living with Your Diagnosis

If you have recently been diagnosed HIV positive you probably have a lot of questions just like I did when I first got the news. Why me? What now? Am I going to die? When will I...

New Study to Track Sexually Active Men May Slow the Spread of HIV

In an era when we know so much more about preventing the spread of HIV, researchers strive to figure out why it still keeps spreading....

Manhattan Sunday Morning Snapshots Capture Life after Last Call

Richard Renaldi captures the decadence of a club scene now that it’s no longer shaken by fear of an untreatable disease. In 1996, after a breakup with his boyfriend, Richard...

“Cycle for the Cause” Seeks Bikers and Donors to End AIDS

What will you do to end AIDS? This question is posed as soon as you open the Cycle for a Cause website. It’s appropriate because the organization offers people the chance to...

Making Smart Nutrition Choices for HIV

Nutrition can be a complex subject to begin with, but when living with HIV, there may be additional dietary concerns to keep yourself feeling healthy. We spoke to holistic health...

Jerry Mitchell Tells the Naked Truth about “Broadway Bares”

The musical theater dynamo sounds off on showing skin to fight AIDS and bringing Pretty Woman to the stage. This June marked the 27th time that Broadway actors disrobed in the...

AIDS at Home: An Exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York

An exhibition showcases art that explores the early years of the epidemic from a very personal perspective. As the AIDS crisis unfolded during its early decades, even the hidden...

Art AIDS America: Art Through the Plague Years

“The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.”...

Being Poz Is No Longer A Threat to Longevity

It’s great news that more people living with HIV are living longer lives! Those who are diagnosed soon after infection and can obtain and continue medication with a suppressed...