November 23, 2009

Playboy Playmate Talks 20 Years After HIV Diagnosis

Rebekka Armstrong, a Playboy Playmate and a POZ cover girl, spoke with students at Towson University in Maryland about her experiences being diagnosed with HIV, The Towerlight reports.  

According to the article, safer sex was one of Armstrong’s central messages to students. “Take the time to protect yourself,” Armstrong told the audience. “You are worth it.”  

Armstrong was Miss September 1986. She was diagnosed with HIV in 1989 and appeared on the cover of POZ in 1998. Twenty years after her diagnosis, Armstrong continues her work as an AIDS activist.  

“Being that sex is an important topic in college, I want people to see the repercussions of not having safe sex,” said NaShey Ingram, programming chair for the campus activities board at the university.

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Audrey mueller, Odessa, Mo, 2009-11-25 23:15:20
I thought I wouldn't get a disease because I was 62 yrs. old but I got HIV because I didn't use precaution. I think everyone young or old should use precaution.

gotstronger, san juan, pr, 2009-11-25 20:40:37
after many years of dispair and disappointment i watched the biography of that great person on TV. iT aws insipring because we had so much in common. She helped me to continue working and never give up, and to try to do things better and work hard gotstronger

rick harrington, st.pete, 2009-11-25 13:25:09
great stuff!! i have had the plesure of working with rebekka and she is a wonderful woman happy to see she is doing well and still out there fighting the good fight

VanPozDude, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, 2009-11-24 10:50:05
Good for Redekka for sharing her story. Hopefully it will make some young people make goo decisions. Her coming out so to speak, also points out that their is hop for a long life after a HIV diagnosis. More of us have to come out of the shame closet.