What Can I Say?

Beautifully said [Editor’s Note, November+December]. How remarkable that HIV and its impact on our lives become smaller as we age and open ourselves up to everything else life has to offer.

—Mark S. King
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I totally get it. I intentionally did not center my life around HIV, trying to avoid my diagnosis for 16 years and then using acceptance of it as impetus for rising from a professional slump over 17 years ago. The last year, though, as I have focused my research towards an MPH on HIV long-term survivors, I have had to give the disease more time and space, and being intellectually engaged without becoming emotionally overwhelmed has been a huge challenge.

—David Phillips
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On the cover of a magazine

Readers responded with pride in discovering that their loved ones had been selected for one of four covers of the November+December issue, which featured pictures submitted for A Day with HIV, PA’s anti-stigma campaign.

My son has come a long way. So surprised to see his picture on the cover. So very proud of him.

—Judy Burgess
FACEBOOK

Congratulations, Dee, on making the cover. You are an inspiration.

—Darlene King
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