Activist Profiles/Personal Accounts
 The Power of Advocacy (July/August 2010)
A first-hand account of how testimony helped win an FDA panel's approval of a new drug.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Still Standing (May 10, 2010)
From Black AIDS Institute
- Is There a Line in the Health Care Reform That Promises a Cure for AIDS? A Blog Entry by Thomas DeLorenzo (May 4, 2010)
In spite of the battle wounds that still remain from the protests in the 90s, the lingering grief from losing most of our friends, in spite of the seemingly normal lives we all lead now, we all want and need a cure.
From TheBody.com
- "I'm Back": A Message From Paul A. Kawata, Executive Director of the National Minority AIDS Council (March 1, 2010)
From National Minority AIDS Council
- Back From the Brink: A Blog Entry by Thomas DeLorenzo (November 10, 2009)
People are still dying from AIDS-related causes in the U.S. -- and some of them die without even knowing they're HIV positive. This almost happened to Hollywood publicist and TheBody.com blogger Thomas DeLorenzo.
From TheBody.com
- Youth Activist Brings HIV Prevention to an Urban Children's Hospital (August 13, 2009)
"Yes, babies are pretty, but they grow up to have sex ... and to potentially expose themselves to HIV," says HIV advocate Kai Chandler.
From TheBody.com
- Thoughts on NY State Senator Thomas Duane's Impassioned Speech on Behalf of People Living With HIV (July 22, 2009)
From TheBody.com
- A Long-Term Survivor (Summer 2009)
The pioneering MACS cohort.
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In TAGline, from Treatment Action Group
- Speaking From the Heart (Spring/Summer 2009)
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In The Positive Side, from Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
- Arizona: From a Crisis, Faith for Co-Founder of Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network (May 18, 2009)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Harlem HIV Advocate Trains "Information Warriors" to Talk Up Testing to Friends and Family (May 5, 2009)
For Vanessa Austin, HIV services outreach coordinator at Harlem Hospital Center in New York City. the key to reaching the most people with her HIV advocacy work is training people to become "information warriors" who then spread messages about HIV prevention and testing to their peers.
From TheBody.com
- Reasons I Walk in the AIDS Walk (April 23, 2009)
"As I walked, joined by thousands of participants, I suddenly no longer felt alone in my grief," recalls Amanda, whose father died suddenly from AIDS-related pneumonia when she was 21 years old.
From AIDS Walk New York
- NIAID Honors AIDS Activist Martin Delaney (January 19, 2009)
From U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Natural Habitat, or, "Who Said Activism Was Dead?" A Blog Entry by Loreen Willenberg (September 10, 2008)
From TheBody.com
- Becoming a Voice for Change (Fall 2008)
When people on South Carolina's ADAP waiting list started dying without treatment and she was diagnosed with pneumonia, Deadre Lawson-Smith realized there was no more time to wait for something to happen.
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In Achieve, from ACRIA and GMHC
- Meet Quintara Lane: HIV-Positive Activist and Leader of the Upcoming "Stand Against AIDS" (August 22, 2008)
East Gulf caravan leader Quintara Lane speaks out.
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
- The Lady With the Dildoes Has Plenty of Sister Love (August 7, 2008)
From Black AIDS Institute
- Bill Clinton Dives Back Into HIV Activism (August 5, 2008)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Give Us Our Daily Meds: Demanding HIV Treatment in Peru (Summer 2008)
In Achieve, from ACRIA and GMHC
- HIV Frontlines: An Interview With Psychologist Dr. Tony Miles (April 9, 2008)
From TheBody.com
- Over the Hump (Spring 2008)
Whether he's speaking out on foster care or fostering AIDS awareness and activism, Sandy Lambert doesn't take "no" for an answer. Just ask B.C. Health.
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In The Positive Side, from Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
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