Randle Roper: Advocate
Bridging Spirits When It Came to the Epidemic, Randle Roper Tells A&U’s Dann Dulin He Felt He Was An Outsider, But He Soon Realized He Was in Common Waters Randle Roper, one of the five founding...
View ArticlePRC’s Mighty Real Gala with Patti LaBelle
Patti Labelle to Headline PRC’s “Mighty Real” Gala Long-time LGBTQ and HIV community ally Patti LaBelle [A&U, June 2005] will headline “Mighty Real,” PRC’s annual fundraising gala, on Saturday,...
View ArticleZack: Poetry by Jeni Booker Senter
Zack “I am become Death. Shatterer of Worlds.” ——Bagavad-Ghita I. I envied his flaming pride and his carelessness. I envied the way he openly painted his nails Glittery Gold And bleached his hair with...
View ArticleIt’s Not Over: Poetry by Mark J. Mitchell
It’s Not Over The NAMES Project in Atlanta Just behind The Silver Skillet past the parking lot, a seamstress works—mostly alone—Names are kept here—sorted, folded, catalogued. Shelves are full and...
View ArticleThe San Francisco Principles
Advocacy in Action: The San Francisco Principles In the aftermath of AIDS2020: Virtual, five of us long-term HIV/AIDS survivors in San Francisco—Paul A. Aguilar, Harry Breaux, Vince Crisostomo, Michael...
View ArticleDrake Jensen: Advocate
Wherever a Song Takes Us Drake Jensen tunes us in to AIDS awareness by Raymond Luczak Photo by Jonathan Edwards / Corvidae Studio Photos I don’t recall how I’d first heard of Drake Jensen, but when I...
View ArticleBen Schatz: Advocate
Scales of Justice From the courtroom to the showroom, attorney Ben Schatz — aka Rachel of The Kinsey Sicks — has fought for the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS by Hank Trout Photo courtesy B....
View ArticlePoets for Life: Philip F. Clark on Why Writing Matters
Poets for Life A&U’s New Poetry Editor on Why Writing Matters by Philip F. Clark “emaciation, grisly cancer, no future, heart of gold, passionate engagement with a great B film, a glorious summer...
View ArticleIAS to Host COVID-19 Conference: Prevention
IAS to Host COVID-19 Conference: Prevention On February 2, 2021, the International AIDS Society (IAS) will host its second conference dedicated to the COVID-19 pandemic, the IAS COVID-19 Conference:...
View Article$210M Funding Opportunity for CBOs
CDC Announces $210M Funding Opportunity for CBOs On September 28, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the availability in fiscal 2021 of up to $210-million for a...
View ArticleAAP-Food Samaritans Observes 30th Anniversary
AAP-Food Samaritans Observes Thirtieth Anniversary Founded in 1991 by Gloria Greene, Joanna Jakway, and Jeannette Rockefeller, AAP-Food Samaritans (formerly AIDS Assistance Program) will observe their...
View ArticlePushcart Prize Nominees 2020
Puschart Prize Nominees 2020 Each year, the Pushcart Prize selection committee puts out a call to the small presses to submit their best work published during the year for possible inclusion in their...
View ArticleNew Haven Pride Center Premieres NIGHT SWEATS
New Haven Pride Center Premieres Night Sweats Image by Ike Smith On December 1, 2020, the New Haven Pride Center, in collaboration with the New Haven Mayor’s Task Force on AIDS and The Guardian Health...
View ArticleSam Barnett: Advocate
Gently Connected Award-Winning British Actor Samuel Barnett Is Inspired After Learning the History of His Father And of Those Who Perished in the Epidemic by Dann Dulin Photography by Faye Thomas Photo...
View ArticleOne Heartland’s Holiday in the Heartland
One Heartland’s Holiday in the Heartland Like many HIV/AIDS-related organizations, One Heartland has seen their work curtailed by the COVID-19. The pandemic caused the organization to cancel 2020’s...
View ArticleHoliday Gift Guide 2020: Until There’s A Cure
Until There’s A Cure Until There’s a Cure (UTAC), a perennial favorite in our Holiday Gift Guide, is one of the earliest HIV/AIDS-related charities, having raised awareness and funds to combat this...
View ArticleHoliday Gift Guide 2020: God’s Love We Deliver
God’s Love We Deliver In 1985 in New York City a hospice worker named Ganga Stone began taking meals to her friend Richard who was too ill to cook for himself. From that act of love and generosity,...
View ArticleNMAC Launches National HIV Job Board
NMAC Launches National HIV Job Board Recently, NMAC launched the Ending the Epidemics (ETE) Workforce jobs board for the healthcare workforce serving people living with and/or impacted by HIV,...
View ArticleHoliday Gift Guide 2020: San Francisco AIDS Foundation
San Francisco AIDS Foundation Ever since the Kaposi’s Sarcoma Research and Education Foundation, founded in 1982 by Cleve Jones, Marcus Conant, Frank Jacobson and Richard Keller, reorganized as the San...
View ArticleAcute HIV Transmissions Rise Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Acute HIV Transmissions Rise Amid COVID-19 Pandemic On October 23, 2020, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) published their findings that, during the period from January 1 to August 17,...
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