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Five Things I’ve Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic

How a Canadian living with HIV has coped with being a shut-in, and what he has learned about himself—and about us
Front page of New York Times on May 24, 2020 commemorating 100,000 COVID-19 deaths.

New York Times Commemorates 100,000 COVID-19 Deaths

The newspaper reported 100,000 AIDS-related deaths very differently in 1991.

New Strategy Boosts Effectiveness of HIV Vaccine in Monkeys

Researchers believe that in addition to producing antibodies against the virus, vaccines must also give rise to a cellular immune response.

Got Vitamin D? It May Mean Less Severe COVID-19

The “sunshine” vitamin may help the immune system fight the virus and avoid severe respiratory distress.
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R.I.P. Nita Pippins, a Mother to Many Dealing With AIDS

She moved to New York in 1987 to care for a dying son. Read a touching 2007 tribute by a former POZ staffer.

HIV Vaccine Trials Group Steps Up to the COVID-19 Plate

The NIH-funded network has launched its first clinical trial in response to the new pandemic.

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