Exercise & HIV/AIDS: Personal Accounts

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Biking Transforms Lives of AIDS Housing Residents in Harlem (November 18, 2009)
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
26 Miles on Foot: Just Another Day for an HIV-Positive Marathoner (March 18, 2008)
From Bay Windows
Marathon Man (November/December 2004)
At the age of 38 and living with HIV since 1995, Jim Pickett prepares to run his first Chicago Marathon.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Pickett Fences: Phat (March/April 2004)
Jim Pickett writes about the joys of working out.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Pickett Fences: Fatty Acid (July/August 2002)
Wait a second: You're gay, you've got HIV, and you're not going to a gym?!.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Pedal Power (June/July 2002)
Meet the Positive Pedalers, a group of HIV-positive cyclists who ride for life -- not only theirs, but those of others with HIV as well.
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
I Ride Because I Can -- A Pos Ped Perspective (May/June 2002)
An HIV-positive AIDS ride cyclist decides to ride with the Pos Ped team.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Personal Perspective: The Road From Perfection (Spring 2002)
Six years after her HIV diagnosis, Heidi Nass realized just how key diet and exercise are to her recovery.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
Living With Yoga and HIV (January/February 2002)
[Archived Article]
HIV-positive yoga instructor Per Erez found physical and mental healing in yoga practice.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Trekking With AIDS, Part 3 -- A Special Report (February 2001)
An HIV-positive woman completes the Appalachian Trail.
In HIV Newsline, from San Francisco General Hospital
Living With HIV: Fit and Fighting HIV (June 2000)
"Exercise helps me to constantly feel just one step ahead of this disease".
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
Trekking With AIDS, Part 2 -- A Special Report (October 1999)
Taking on the challenge of hiking the entire Appalachian Trail -- on top of the challenge of taking a five-drug-a-day antiretroviral regimen.
In AIDS Care, from San Francisco General Hospital
Trekking With AIDS, Part 1 -- A Special Report (August 1999)
Dawn Averitt describes taking on the challenge of hiking the entire Appalachian Trail -- on top of the challenge of remaining compliant with a five-drug antiretroviral regimen.
In HIV Newsline, from San Francisco General Hospital
Practicing Pedal Power (July 1998)
Profile of an AIDS Ride cyclist.
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
Gym Dandy (November 1997)
For HIV-positive people, exercise is not just recreation; it is treatment.
In Notes From the Underground, from PWA Health Group

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