• Keeping Up With My Meds

    Keeping Up With My Meds

    Hello friends from our GLBTQ Latin@ Community! I want to let you know about HIV medication and my personal experience with adherence. Since the time of my diagnosis in 1993, I began HIV antiretroviral treatment medication. During those years there were not many choices other than the experiments with AZT. This medication was given to anyone that had being diagnosed HIV [...]

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  • Making AIDS a Disease of the Past

    Making AIDS a Disease of the Past

    Hello friends from our GLBTQ Latino Community! Let’s talk about HIV vaccines. It was June 1981 when the Centers for Disease control and Prevention (CDC) reported that “five homosexuals in Los Angeles had developed a rare form of pneumonia.” These were the first documented cases of what we now know as AIDS. Since that time, more than 65 million people [...]

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  • Some Times…

    Some Times…

    Sometimes I look to my past and think of how much I have experienced in the last few years while living with HIV. I do feel that I have learned a lot from it. I struggle not to look at the negative side of it because; fortunately I do receive many good things everyday. Sometimes I forget that I am [...]

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  • National HIV Testing Day: A Testimonio

    National HIV Testing Day: A Testimonio

    Today is National HIV Testing Day It is important that you understand how important is to know your HIV status. I didn’t have that chance before my HIV positive diagnosis in 1993. It is not easy to live with HIV. You don’t have to change much, just have to carefully make your choices when it comes to sex, after all [...]

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