Fighting stigma’s fire
In her documentary short, first-time filmmaker Asha Molok looks at the experience of Black women living with HIV
A tale of two pandemics
Would someone admitting they have COVID-19 experience the same stigma and shame that often still accompanies a person when they disclose that they have HIV?
The Category Is: Sex and aging with HIV
How has aging with HIV affected your sex life?
Behind the cover
A lesson in community
Powerful moments in the HIV/AIDS movement
A reflection on the beauty and strength of diversity
Stepping onto new stages
Gerald Garth ushers in the next generation of leadership
Research on transgender people
‘We declare that research on transgender people must benefit transgender people’
Why are you here?
Addressing HIV demands more than scholarship. All HIV researchers need to be scholar-activists
Note from the Guest Editor
No more bystanders
They Call Me Magic Docuseries Premiere
New Magic Johnson docuseries premieres April 22 on Apple TV streaming service
This time for Alexandra Billings
The accomplished actor talks about her new memoir, and how there are gifts in chaos
The stories behind A Day with HIV
Positively Aware hosts an online celebration of resilience told through pictures
Dancing Around HIV: When Do You Know If You've Ever Done Enough?
There are some days when I embrace the work, my activism, and keeping up with the latest about HIV/AIDS. And there are other days when I want to forget about it all and just escape. Because no matter what I do it never seems like it's enough, or that I could somehow be doing it better, or that maybe I waited too long to decide to act.
Transforming power
The transgender community takes the reins
Being Bridgette
When it clicks
Poz Advocate
Decriminalization of sex work is good public health policy
Artists living with HIV say ‘no’ to stigma with Paris exhibit
An exhibit of works by European artists living with HIV opens in Paris
Gay man killed in Mexico when he revealed HIV status
Action must be taken to defend rights of people living with HIV
AIDS Garden Chicago breaks ground
Groundbreaking ceremony for the AIDS Garden, a memorial at the original site of the Belmont Rocks, a popular gathering spot from the 1960s–1990s for Chicago’s LGBTQ community
Looking deeper to dispel stigma and fear
Anne Aslett talks about the effects of HIV stigma, and the work the Elton John AIDS Foundation is doing to fight it
Finding Black pleasure
‘Growing up poz’ is just one aspect of this young Black queer long-term survivor’s journey
Dangerous crossroads
A therapist and long-term survivor surveys the intersections of addiction, isolation, COVID-19, and aging with HIV
Weathering many storms
A clinical psychologist examines the physical effects of discrimination and other traumas
Layers of resilience
Two transgender activists of color share how they support their communities—and themselves
The Category Is Mar+Apr 2021
What’s been the most unexpected experience or encounter you’ve had in your journey with HIV?
Self-defense moves
Take care of yourself in a time of stress
Poz Advocate: Getting back to (discrimination free) work
There is not a job in the world that a person living with HIV cannot safely perform
Note from the Guest Editors
Surviving two pandemics
Broken Crayons
Repurposing life's challenges into something of beauty
Poz Advocate: It’s a new day for people living with HIV in America
It’s a new day for people living with HIV in America
The Category Is
In-your-face realness
Poz Advocate
COVID and people living with HIV in jails and prisons
Reclaiming Identity
A musician and educator reflects on his journey
Pickett Fences: Love the One You’re With – Sex and Pleasure in the time of COVID-19
So HOW IN THE HELL do we talk about sex and pleasure now?
Positively Aging: The Gift of Choice
Inter-generational conversations have a power of their own
Tired of the way things are
Former Positively Aware associate editor Keith R. Green, PhD, MSW notes that while much in the world of HIV/AIDS has changed since an editor’s passing, a lot has not
Hope and redemption: Q&A with Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Research on women points to the importance of safety nets for everyone
Born Free
Lynnea Lawson was born with HIV, and gave birth to a daughter who is HIV-negative
Briefly
Pregnancy and dolutegravir; AIDS Quilt finds a new home; survey on women living with HIV; and more
The Conversation
A reader’s own ‘Note to My Younger Self’
7th Rural HIV Training & Research Conference: Deep and Southern Strong
Addressing HIV in the rural South
Driving out stigma
‘Dee’ Conner and Deirdre Johnson hit the road to raise awareness in the South
A Day with HIV 2019
Everyday moments in extraordinary lives 2019
Two-spirit conversation
A conversation with David Herrara of the Montana Two Spirit Society
Black and Latino queer men and pleasure
Choosing power over stigma
Positively Aging: Cross-generational collaboration
Coming together for HIV advocacy
Mental health and self-care
Some things to think about when addressing your emotional and mental health
Suddenly sundered
HIV and the Foreign Service
Briefly
FDA approves Descovy for PrEP; Delstrigo and Pifeltro approved for switch treatment; Bictegravir, dolutegravir and Tybost for children; and more.
Editor's Note
Dismantling stigma
Front Cover(s) Backstory
One issue, four covers for A Day with HIV
Finding hope in ‘Crystal City’
A new documentary about gay men, meth, and HIV
Andrew Espinosa on A Day with HIV
Why one person living with HIV takes part in a groundbreaking anti-stigma campaign
Briefly
Biktarvy and antacids. Descovy FDA hearing. Updated guidelines for transgender individuals. Biktarvy and kids. PrEP4Love. Michael Johnson freed.
Editor's Note
Note to my younger self.
‘Love knows no status.’
Team Friendly Makes a statement at World Pride NYC
A Tale of Two Epidemics
Youth, HIV, and homelessness
Response Required: Dealing with race, drugs and gay sex
HIV community key to social justice within LGBT community
Spirituality and faith in my HIV journey
The line between religion and spirituality can be difficult to navigate
Amazing Grace or Highway to Hell?
God, spirituality, and HIV
Prison Health Is Public Health
The case for testing and treating hepatitis C in prisons
Crossroads: HIV and Social Justice
Q&A with The Sero Project’s Sean Strub
A Matter Of Culture and Rights
Two activists discuss decriminalization efforts in Mexico and the U.S.
He said, she said—and what the law says
A doctor who works with people with HIV who are incarcerated looks at two cases
Ending Criminalization of HIV
Having experienced his own ordeal, activist Robert Suttle adamantly believes we are destined to win
AIDSWatch 2018
AIDSWatch, the annual meeting between HIV community activists and national lawmakers on Capitol Hill, as seen through the eyes of a first-time participant
Behind the smiles on A Day with HIV
On September 22, 2017, hundreds of people captured a moment of their lives and shared their stories.
Outdated Orders
How service members living with HIV are subjected to criminalization
Tree of Life
What would an HIV cure mean to you?
Benefits of Safer Drug Consumption Spaces
Why Safe Consumption Spaces for people who use drugs would benefit society.
Safer Drug Consumption Spaces
An idea whose time has come
Say Goodbye to ‘Risk’
Watch your words. Lose the labels if you want to prevent HIV
The Science of U=U
People on treatment with an undetectable viral load do not transmit HIV—here's how.
Our Story is Your Story
Honoring 30 years with the personal stories of lives touched by TPAN
TPAN: 30 Years of Empowerment
A legacy of surviving and thriving
A Path of Their Own
Two best friends tell PA about their unique journeys to wellness
To Speak or Not to Speak
HIV stigma and the consequences of silence
Facing Stigma
A Day with HIV participants open up about stigma
A Day with HIV
Our anti-stigma campaign portrays 24 hours in the lives of people around the world affected by HIV. A selection of the images—and lives—shared on September 22, 2016.
Reconnecting With Her Community
Feeling free with the Ride for AIDS Chicago
HIV Is Not A Crime II
HIV is Not a Crime II Training Academy May 17 – 20, in Huntsville, Alabama
Caring about HIV criminalization
Michael Johnson, HIV, and Murder
Disclosure and discrimination in criminal law
Making Good on the Promise of PrEP
How Jim Pickett is making PrEP a household word
You Say 'Whore' Like it's a Bad Thing
How stigma fuels the HIV epidemic
