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Twenty survivors share their stories
POZ magazine was a vital part of my learning to live with the virus.
“Empowering Entrepreneurs” (March 2014) featured the work and the women of Common Threads. The small-group training session designed to...
The first POZ cover guy reflects on the aftermath of his revealing 1994 interview and his life today.
The imagery in the poster refers to the developing canon of both AIDS art and the history of AIDS activism—and to what gets left out of...
When Byanca Parker was told she was living with HIV, she reacted like most anyone would. “It was scary and confusing,” she recalls.
AIDS doc’s memoir takes the pulse of our health care system.
When low-income HIV-positive people in Louisiana tried to use their Ryan White funds to purchase health care, Blue Cross Blue Shield and two o...
Adrain Chesser discloses his AIDS diagnosis—and photographs the reactions.
Speaking at a press conference, Major General Ibrahim Abdel-Atti, head of the Cancer Treatment and Screening center, explained that he had a m...
HIV prevention gets a controversial fashion makeover.
Advocates from across the country are uniting to take a bite out of HIV criminalization laws.
The HIV community gave a collective cheer when President Obama announced that the new director of the White House Office of National AIDS Poli...
HIV-related stigma is worse than ever. Not the external kind, where a society is panicked about the new plague.
Keeping medical appointments is particularly crucial for HIV-positive people on antiretrovirals who have a low CD4 count.
The vastly disproportionate rates of HIV among African-American men who have sex with men are linked to unemployment, lower socioeconomic stat...
Certain “markers” of inflammation in the body are linked to an earlier death among people with HIV,
A leaked email shows that the Innovative Pharmaceuticals Association of South Africa colluded with the U.S.-based pharmaceutical industr...
Research that showed that an ingredient in pot alters the disease progression of SIV in the guts of monkeys led to inaccurate reporting.
Engineering immune cells to produce what are known as broadly neutralizing antibodies protects against HIV infection in mice that have immune...
A computerized counseling program for people with HIV improves treatment adherence and reduces viral load and risky sexual behavior.
Long-living, HIV-infected immune cells that have stem-cell-like properties appear to be a bedrock of the viral reservoir that prevents antiret...
Teens and young adults with HIV often delay entering medical care for the virus until late in the course of their disease.
It’s important to get tested for the hepatitis C virus and get connected to care.
So many of our former cover guys and gals have passed away, as well as many more from within our covers.
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