#Tennessee

These Tennesseans “are scared to death that their family and friends are going to find out they are positive.”

These interventions are part of the Southern AIDS Coalition’s COMPASS partnerships.

Based in Knoxville, the Positively Living facility uses telehealth to see patients in other cities.

Windy Heath voluntarily told the dean that she was HIV positive and undetectable.

The CDC lists 220 counties where injection drug users are at high risk of HIV and hep C.

The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation awarded Nashville CARES a $10,000 grant that will go toward its food services for people with HIV.

A Tennessee federal court added six years to a woman’s prison sentence because she was pregnant while committing a crime.

It’s no surprise that Dominique Banks considers her greatest regret in life to be “dating the wrong men.”

Youth with HIV record their stories so docs and other patients can listen and learn.

The facility will pay $90,000 in monetary relief.

I am dedicated. I don’t let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

When I have to give a positive test result, I let the person know HIV is not life ending, but it is life changing.

It’s sad that I was diagnosed with AIDS before HIV. I know I can get my CD4 count up but it’s going take time. I just have to take it one day...

Grants also were given in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

I am a 23-year-old survivor of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and a gay, southern resident of a small town in mid-Tennessee.

He was fired in 2009 for alleged lateness and excessive absences.