Long-Term Survivors 2017

Long-Term Survivors 2017

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,...

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