The Neglect of Survivors Must End
Everyone knows the statistics:
More than half of the 1,300,000 people in the U.S. living with HIV are over the age of fifty; by 2020...
I Didn’t Become a Long-Term Survivor by Keeping My Mouth Shut!
I Am My Own Best Advocate
Never hesitate to challenge your doctors—you know your body best!
by Hank Trout
A couple days before Thanksgiving 2016, I woke...
Peter Rodriguez: Advocate
Phoenix Rising
Activist Peter Rodriguez Is as Indefatigable as the Bird That Rises from the Ashes
by Hank Trout
Photographed Exclusively for A&U by Sean Black
We’ve all...
Surviving Survivor’s Guilt
Over the years, I’ve chatted with many other HIV/AIDS long-term survivors about the myriad complications of being among the “AIDS Generation,” those of us...
Nancy Duncan: Advocate
It Could Happen to You, Too
Activist and educator Nancy Duncan shares her personal HIV story
Text & photos by Alina Oswald
In many ways, Nancy Duncan’s...
Rob Quinn: Advocate
Heart & Soul
Rob Quinn Opens His Heart, Searches His Soul, and Finds His Voice Advocating for Long-Term Survivors
by Chip Alfred
Photographed Exclusively for A&U by...
Set Asides
Set asides: units of affordable housing required developers to set aside twenty-five percent of all new housing for low to moderate income families. When...
Cleve Jones: Cover Story
Living History
With a New Memoir, When We Rise, Iconic AIDS & Labor Activist Cleve Jones Connects the Past and the Future
by Hank Trout
Photographed Exclusively...
My HIV Turned 21
It’s Our Party and We’ll Cry If We Want To was the theme for my day of diagnosis.
When I was first diagnosed February 20,...






















