Older People & HIV: Personal Accounts
- Beyond Ripe (May/June 2009)
"All my kvetching aside, I am happy I made it to 43," says HIV advocate Jim Pickett. "Fourteen years ago, when I found out I was HIV positive, the drama queen in me had me burned up in a vase before 40."
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- This Positive Life: An Interview With Lois Crenshaw (March 24, 2009)
From TheBody.com
- Taking It Step by Step: An Interview With Dorothy and Lizabeth (June 2008)
In WORLD Newsletter, from Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases
- Alba: "I Think I'm the Oldest Woman Living With HIV!" (June 2008)
In WORLD Newsletter, from Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases
- Profiles in Courage: George Burgess (July 2007)
From TheBody.com
- Profiles in Courage: Reverend Frederick Batiste (April 8, 2007)
From TheBody.com
- First Person: Loreen Willenberg
- First Person: Jane Fowler
- First Person: Luana Clark
From The Body Features: Women & HIV
- Profiles in Courage: Greg Braxton (March 2007)
From TheBody.com
- Half Century: Turning Fifty Hasn't Detracted From Surviving AIDS (September/October 2006)
Matt Sharp explores his feelings about reaching the half-century mark.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- The Graying of AIDS: Older HIVers Tell Their Stories (2006)
In this multimedia exclusive from TIME magazine, six men and women with HIV between the ages of 51 and 73 discuss stigma, HIV prevention for seniors and keeping hope alive.
In Time
- Profiles in Courage: Bishop Kwabena Rainey Cheeks (January 2006)
53-year-old Bishop Kwabena Rainey Cheeks uses his position in the church to address the growing HIV epidemic among African Americans.
From TheBody.com
- Profiles in Courage: Joyce McDonald (January 2006)
The life of African-American artist Joyce McDonald is a triumph of will over circumstance.
From TheBody.com
- Profiles in Courage: An Interview With an HIV-Positive Substance Abuse Counselor in Chicago (January 2006)
From TheBody.com
- Beatriz Diaz: From Silence to Success (January 2005)
Beatriz Diaz, 49, learned the hard way that loving yourself is critical to committing to HIV treatment.
In A Guide to Fuzeon: The First Fusion Inhibitor, from TheBody.com
- I'm Too Old For This (Summer 2004)
For this gay, 65-year-old man, his love life has been his main concern, not HIV.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
- Moving Forward (Summer 2004)
Harlem native Yolanda Birthwright, 54, wonders: If I'd never been diagnosed with HIV, would I be enjoying my life as much as I do now?.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
- Love, Sex, Friends, Medications, Spirituality, Health (Summer 2004)
Marilyn McBride, a 50-year-old mother who has been HIV positive for 10 years, is in great health and spirits.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
- Why Am I Still Here? (Summer 2004)
Paul Miller, 52 and HIV positive for more than a decade, has lately had a whole new set of changes to cope with.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
- There's Always Room for Hope (Summer 2004)
As a widow and an HIV-positive woman approaching 60, Sharon's life has taken on new meaning.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
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