My Community

Tuesday, October 28, 2014 11:00am - 12:30pm UCSF Parnassus Campus, San Francisco, CA 94143 Cole Hall, 513 Parnassus Avenue via UC Global Health Institute This event is a platform for a wide-ranging discussion of the challenges and strategies around the...

via AIDS United Please help us show a broad coalition of organizations supporting the AIDS Budget and Appropriations Coalition (ABAC) budget request to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. The request and letter can be viewed here and covers all...

Got results today, not for bloods but from my annual cervical smear; all good, as usual. I dutifully go every year to follow recommended procedure because of my status. Staring at the familiar flowers on the ceiling at my local...

As a person who shares in this epidemic, it is becoming more worrisome and frightening for many people living with the HIV virus in Nigeria. I remember some years back in the early 2000s, we were buying ARVs and paying...

In my previous blogs I spoke a lot about what life was like being diagnosed with HIV. I spoke of the shame and guilt I felt along with the shame people placed upon me because of this disease. I hated...

October 21, 2014 1:00pm ET via National Center for Innovation in HIV Care Jeffrey S. Crowley, MPH Program Director, National HIV/AIDS Initiative at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law; Distinguished Scholar, Georgetown University; former Director of the...

I've been silent for awhile now. The silence has been a lack of inspiration and feeling like I had nothing to contribute to the conversation. Well, last week I went to USCA in San Diego for the first time in...

It's been a while since my last writing. I have been consumed with new horizons and just living my life. One of the highlights was being able to attend the PWN's SPEAK UP conference. Let me tell you, the connection...

I was able to attend the United States Conference on AIDS (USCA) in San Diego, held October 2-5, 2014. This conference had over 2,000 attendees, many of whom worked in the HIV community. The sessions varied widely, including housing, criminalization...

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 10 - 11:30 AM Cannon House Office Building, Room 121 Washington, DC via AIDS United In Recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month In cooperation with the HIV Caucus: Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) (co-chair), Representative Jim McDermott...