Activist Profiles/Personal Accounts
- Bill Duke: Giving a Voice to the Voiceless (January 3, 2012)
In Black AIDS Weekly, from Black AIDS Institute
 Sowing Seeds for the Movement: A Blog Entry by Khafre Abif (December 23, 2011)
From TheBody.com
 Occupy HIV: A Blog Entry by Brooke Davidoff (December 17, 2011)
"Our generation has needed a movement like this for a long time. They had a sit-in in front of a Chase bank. I hadn't felt so much unity since AIDS Walk. We need to stand up for each other more in America."
From TheBody.com
 HIV/AIDS Community Spotlight: People Who Made a Difference in 2011 (December 13, 2011)
From TheBody.com
- The Never-Ending Collage: One Advocate's Reflections on World AIDS Day (December 1, 2011)
From TheBody.com
 Aaron Laxton: My HIV Journey -- A Blog Entry by Robert Breining (November 28, 2011)
"Aaron is a 32-year-old graduate student from St. Louis, Missouri with a passion to help others. On June 6, 2011, he got news that would forever change his life: he was HIV positive."
From TheBody.com
 World AIDS Day 2011: New Activism, New Generation -- A Blog Entry by Ibrahim (November 23, 2011)
From TheBody.com
- Getting to Zero and Cycle for Freedom: A National HIV/AIDS Mobilization Campaign -- A Blog Entry by Khafre Abif (November 21, 2011)
"In the spirit of Harriet Tubman, I can serve as a foot soldier for freedom for HIV/AIDS in black and Latino America by cycling the Underground Railroad Bicycle Route. It means that for the entire 2,028-mile, 75-day campaign, the issue of HIV and its hold on African-American and Latino communities will be mobilized."
From TheBody.com
 Love Heals, Ali Gertz and Me: A Blog Entry by Jimmy Mack (November 21, 2011)
"Eddie told me about a young girl who was dying of AIDS at her parents' house on Dune Road and asked if I'd like to meet her. ... Afterwards Eddie said wasn't it amazing what that young woman did with the knowledge of her disease by going public and talking about it to the media and at schools all over New York."
From TheBody.com
 Notes for a Young Activist: A Blog Entry by Aless Piper (October 28, 2011)
"What I want you to know most of all is we are out there. It's not easy, and sometimes it takes a really long time to "get better," but we need you. We need your passion, we need your voice, we need your ideas."
From TheBody.com
- Duane Cramer: Trailblazer, Photographer, Activist (October 25, 2011)
From Black AIDS Institute
- Catching Up With Janine Brignola: A Blog Entry by Robert Breining (October 25, 2011)
"Janine has spent the last five years since she was diagnosed learning what she could about HIV itself, the stigma attached to the disease, and how HIV affects the lives of those living with the disease in America as well as abroad."
From TheBody.com
 Walk, Talk and KLEAN: A Blog Entry by Sherri Beachfront Lewis (October 25, 2011)
"Long before there were HIV medications or information or laws to help protect HIV-positive people from the enormous stigma of AIDS in the '80s, it has been my experience that the hope and help and friendships I found in 12-step meetings saved my life -- first from addiction, then to living with HIV."
From TheBody.com
 HIV Prevention in Latino Faith Communities: Counting Big Wins in an Uphill Battle (October 17, 2011)
Q & A with Nathaly Rubio-Torio, executive director of Voces Latinas.
From TheBody.com
 For HIV-Positive Latinas in the Bay Area, Picking Up Where Systems Leave Off (October 17, 2011)
Q & A with Agripina Alejandres, Latina peer advocate, WORLD.
From TheBody.com
 Mission, Vision and What It Means to Rise Up to HIV: A Blog Entry by Kevin Maloney (October 16, 2011)
"If you are Rising Up to HIV then I would like to hear about it, so that I can feature your story on my blog."
From TheBody.com
 Paul Gallegos -- The Intersection Project: A Blog Entry by Robert Breining (September 24, 2011)
"Paul Gallegos, a 42 years old HIV positive husband and father of 5 HIV negative children shared his story on POZIAM Radio. Paul found out about his status in May of 1999."
From TheBody.com
 David Munar: Making "the People's HIV Plan" a National Reality (September 15, 2011)
From TheBody.com
- Carlos Pavel Smith: Channeling the Passion of Youth (September 12, 2011)
From AID FOR AIDS International
 Q&A: C. Virginia Fields, AIDS Movement Leader and Power Broker (September 6, 2011)
From Black AIDS Institute
 Meet Miracle Mike Hennessey: A Blog Entry by Robert Breining (August 16, 2011)
"Mike is a writer, actor, comedian and children's entertainer. He moved to Los Angeles in 1993 from Boston after he was told in August of 1990 that he had potentially 7 to 9 years to live when he was diagnosed with HIV. He thought, 'Since I'm going to die anyway, I might as well do it on stage.'"
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