Buffalo Bills Player Tweets HIV Test Results: Over-Share or Encouraging?

Kellee Terrell, TheBody.com; Posted May 25, 12:23 p.m. ET

Earlier this week, Buffalo Bills wide receiver David Clowney tweeted a picture of his negative HIV test results -- and immediately triggered a firestorm of responses that reminds us just how ugly HIV stigma can be.

Study Finds HIV Infection Is an Independent Risk Factor for Lung Cancer

Warren Tong, TheBody.com; Posted May 24, 4:08 p.m. ET

Simply having HIV is an independent risk factor for lung cancer, according to a recent study from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. The researchers found that having HIV increased the risk of developing lung cancer by about 71%, though overall lung cancer risk was still low. (On TheBodyPRO.com)

How Did I Get Here?

TheBody.com; Posted May 24, 2:53 p.m. ET

Bernard Jackson is a long-term HIV survivor and an HIV prevention/education specialist working with youth in Northern Virginia. He shares wise and unique perspectives on love, laughter, work and many other aspects of life, in hopes of helping readers to see things a little differently.

A Front Row Seat to the HIV Scientific Revolution

Charles Stephens, AIDS United; Posted May 24, 10:22 a.m. ET

"I have a front-row seat to the HIV scientific revolution," writes Charles Stephens for AIDS United. Stephens shares his experiences as co-chair of the Emory University Hope Clinic Community Advisory Board, one of the sites involved in an HIV vaccine study.

Nobody wants his or her HIV treatment to stop working. And it's easy for someone to tell you, "Just take all your meds, and you'll be fine." But the challenge of taking antiretroviral therapy every single day, and the obstacles that life throws in your way, can make adherence a lot tougher in real life than it might seem on paper.

This is why we've created our Resource Center on Keeping Up With Your HIV Meds. It features:

• invaluable advice from HIV experts and people living with HIV
• first-person accounts of people dealing with the everyday struggle to stay on top of their meds
• answers to the most commonly asked questions about adherence we see on our site

In addition, our new resource center contains loads of information and advice that will help ensure your dance with HIV treatment is as flawless as possible.

Dennis Haysbert: Actor, Activist

Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn, Black AIDS Institute; Posted May 23, 6:33 p.m. ET

Making HIV/AIDS testing routine within the black community has driven actor Dennis Haysbert's involvement in the cause for more than a dozen years. "I was one of the first African American actors to be tested on-screen to destigmatize the act of being tested," he notes.

Road to AIDS 2012: A Series of Town Hall Meetings -- New York

Tamara E. Holmes, Black AIDS Institute; Posted May 23, 3:34 p.m. ET

Participants in a "town hall" style meeting in New York City marked the city's successes battling the HIV/AIDS epidemic while acknowledging its shortcomings -- and raising questions about whether other parts of the country would catch up with the times. Black AIDS Institute reports.

It's My Birthday

Rae Lewis-Thornton, TheBody.com; Posted May 23, 1:40 p.m. ET

Long-term HIV survivor and diva extraordinaire Rae Lewis-Thornton celebrated her 50th day on the planet yesterday -- a milestone that, when she was diagnosed with HIV 27 years ago, she never imagined she could hope to reach.

CDC Urges All Boomers Be Tested for Hepatitis C

Ikè Nwankpa, TheBody.com; Posted May 23, 11:55 a.m. ET

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend all adults born between 1945 and 1965 get tested for hepatitis C (HCV), believing this demographic makes up more than 75 percent of those currently living with the virus.

There is good and bad in all
of our consequences,
but for the grace of God,
we're being carried through this.
Some are still here and some
have gone on.
Just always remember we're
the Chosen Ones.

--From "The Chosen Ones," by Bonetta Spratley

April was National Poetry Month in the U.S. Come read, enjoy and comment on the amazing collection poems sent in by our readers.

Marvelyn Brown: Marvelous Connections

Robert Breining, TheBody.com; Posted May 22, 8:10 p.m. ET

Listen in to POZ I AM Radio's recent interview with Marvelyn Brown, a 27-year-old woman from Tennessee who is one of the most visible faces of HIV among African-American women.

The First Few Months: A Transgender Woman Faces an HIV Diagnosis in the Rural U.S.

Autumn Preusser, TheBody.com; Posted May 22, 2:11 p.m. ET

Autumn Preusser, a transgender woman living in rural Arkansas, started keeping an online journal several days after her diagnosis in 2010. In it, she candidly shares her experiences as she adjusts to life with HIV.

California: San Francisco Mayor to Restore All HIV/AIDS Funds

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Posted May 22, 12:40 p.m. ET

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has announced he will use city funds to restore more than $6 million in federal HIV/AIDS cuts to the city.

The Berlin Patient: Man or Superman?

Thomas DeLorenzo, TheBody.com; Posted May 22, 11:28 a.m. ET

"[T]he Berlin Patient lives in all of us. It is in the very quiet moments, the moments when we tell our doctors that no, we don't want to try another drug for fear of what it will do to our bodies, but yet we somehow find the strength to give it a chance."