For our second POZ 100 list, we celebrated 100 people, things and ideas that reinvented or improved how we tackle HIV. The idea to depart from spotlighting only people was inspired in part by one of the biggest headlines in AIDS history.
Earlier that year, it was revealed that the first person cured of HIV was Timothy Ray Brown, a man known as “the Berlin Patient.” In fact, POZ featured him on the June 2011 cover.
Further, in addition to fresh hope in the fields of cure and vaccine research, it was also shown that treatment works as prevention. Global health experts were saying that the correct application of our resources could start to end the HIV epidemic.
The trick was to capitalize on that amazing progress, parlaying science into policy and turning optimism into cash to improve the lives of people living with HIV. Our contribution to that effort in 2011 was to depart from honoring only people to also highlighting organizations and concepts that we believed deserved attention.
The survival of people living with HIV has always depended on a one-two punch: leadership from the top and from the grassroots level. As a result, the 2011 POZ 100 list included celebrities and people involved in government and global efforts as well as folks who were fighting in the trenches, acting as essential thorns in the side of the establishment, working as watchdogs, wielding the press to expose corruption and serving as role models. They proved that a single soul can change the world.
Catching Up With...
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Michelle Braxton
Why do you advocate for people living with HIV?
I advocate for my community because living with HIV is not a death sentence. I have been living with HIV for 29 years. If you are informed and get tested and treated for HIV, you can live a fulfilling life.
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Jack Mackenroth
How do you empower others?
I try to take away the fear. There is a lot of misinformation dispensed globally. I try to keep it simple: Get tested, and confirm your HIV status; get on antiretrovirals as soon as possible, and take them as prescribed; get your CD4 cell count up and your viral load undetectable so you can’t transmit it to other people (#UequalsU); and resume your normal life.
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Edwin Bernard
What advice do you have for people doing HIV advocacy work today?
One person can change the world, but we can achieve even more when we work together and when our work is adequately funded.
2011 Medical Milestone
The HPTN 052 study found that taking antiretrovirals reduces the risk of transmitting HIV through vaginal sex by 96%, launching the treatment-as prevention era.
The 2011 POZ 100
“15 by 2015”
ACT V
AIDS.gov
AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA)
The Ali Forney Center
Alpha Workshops
amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
APICHA’s Transgender Clinic
AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC)
B Condoms
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Beauty Queens with a Conscience
Edwin Bernard
Susan Blumenthal
Bob Bowers
Michelle Braxton
Governor Jerry Brown
Timothy Ray Brown
The Reverend Calvin O. Butts III
The Cabinet
Jim Campbell
Catholics for Choice
Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
Chris Collins
Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus
Jeffrey Crowley
JD Davids
Joe De Capua
The Denver Principles
Desert AIDS Project
Ambassador Mark Dybul
Wafaa El-Sadr
Kenyon Farrow
Anthony Fauci
Kevin Fenton
Dab Garner
A Grassroots History of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in North America
Robert Greenwald
Hairdressers Against AIDS
Harm Reduction Coalition
Mark Harrington
Health Gap
Health HIV
Todd Heywood
Kathie Hiers
Marjorie Hill
The HIV Law Project
The HIV Story Project
James Houston
The International AIDS Conference
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
In the Life
I Stay Healthy
La Toya Jackson
Sir Elton John
Sheila Johnson
Paul Kawata
Michel Kazatchkine
Alicia Keys
The Reverend Charles King
Mark King
Larry Kramer
Annie Lennox
Life Ball
Jack Mackenroth
Jordan M.
The Moore Clinic
David Ernesto Munar
The NAMES Project Foundation
The National Black Clergy for the Elimination of HIV/AIDS Act of 2009
President Barack Obama
Over-the-Counter Tests
Michael Petrelis
Jim Pickett
Positive Justice Project
Positive Women’s Network
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
“Prison Health News”
The Rachofskys
Michael Emanuel Rajner
The Robert James Frascino Foundation
Carlton Rounds
Chris Salgardo
Sangamo BioSciences Inc.
Kathleen Sebelius
Michael Sennott
Matt Sharp
Michel Sidibé
Kimberly Smith
Joseph Sonnabend
Stop AIDS Project
Andrew Sullivan
Dame Elizabeth Taylor
Sandy Thurman
Treatment as Prevention
VOCAL-NY
Court Justice David Wake
The Well Project
Phill Wilson
ZamBama
Click below to read about each year’s list:
Introduction | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | On the Cover | HIV Advocates on HIV Advocacy
To read the 2019 POZ 100, click here.
To read the 2018 POZ 100, click here.
To read the 2017 POZ 100, click here.
To read the 2016 POZ 100, click here.
To read the 2015 POZ 100, click here.
To read the 2014 POZ 100, click here.
To read the 2013 POZ 100, click here.
To read the 2012 POZ 100, click here.
To read the 2011 POZ 100, click here.
To read the 2010 POZ 100, click here.
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