Decriminalizing Sex Work
Since 1955, the motto “To Protect and Serve” has been plastered on police cars all across the United States. In the book Who Do...
HIV & Isolation: Who Me?
Here I am, back in my hometown for eight years now. I don’t regret the move, per se, but it has presented me with...
My Fight with HIV
My fight with HIV began before 1981. I was the third person diagnosed with GRID, at Georgetown University Hospital just before my fifteenth birthday....
My Friend Is Newly Diagnosed, But He Is Resisting Treatment
You Can Lead a Horse to Water
How do you help someone who just won't accept it?
by John Francis Leonard
In my July column, I told...
Rewriting Your Story
Time Loops
Who would you be if you could bend time and space and rewrite yourself from scratch?
by Corey Saucier
If there were another you, in...
HIV Self-Care & Mental Health
Checking In
As part of your HIV self-care, take steps to address your mental health
by George M. Johnson
I finally went to see a therapist.
For Black...
Gun Control as Public Health
Then & Now
by David Waggoner
Just when a few of A&U’s staff said they might skip Pride this year, Orlando happened. The Pulse nightclub in...
Meet the New Grief, Same as the Old Grief
Too Young to Die
Meet the new grief, same as the old grief
by John Francis Leonard
I thought I was immune to grief by now, but...
ARV Drought
Left Field by Patricia Nell Warren
Drug shortages threaten the promise of the “end of aids.”
As I write this, the International AIDS Conference is going...
Self-Care & My Struggle with Self-Pleasure
My Struggle with Self-Pleasure
Self-care is an act of becoming
by George M. Johnson
Earlier this year I wrote a story disclosing my HIV status to the...
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An Aspirin A Day May Keep HIV Away
The Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) has published the results of a study conducted by researchers from the universities of Manitoba, Waterloo...
