#Tennessee

In remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Birthday, I pondered about Dr. King’s last day on earth; the day before he became immortal.

The Cempa Talks initiative is based in Chattanooga, where more than 55 percent of people living with HIV are African American.

A search committee is looking for a successor to Joe Interrante, who’s also an HIV long-term survivor.

Most employees have left the Nashville Ryan White program, which is now under investigation.

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.

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

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

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.