Telling Others You Have HIV/AIDS
Bernadette Berzoza
Diagnosed in September 1989
"When I told a friend I was HIV positive, she got up off the chair and hugged me ..."
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Advice
- Talking With Your Children About Your HIV Status or Your Children's Status (February 2012)
From The Well Project
 Three Reasons to Not Reveal Your HIV Status During the Holidays: A Blog Entry by Candace Y.A. Montague (November 22, 2011)
"The holiday season is upon us once again. For some it is joyous. For others it is torturous. No matter how you feel about visiting relatives and eating countless plates of food, it is safe to say that the holiday season is not a good time to disclose to your family that you are HIV positive."
From TheBody.com
- Telling Others You're HIV Positive (March 31, 2011)
To read PDF, click here.
From AIDS InfoNet
- Disclosure Etiquette, Part 3: The Highs and Lows of Telling Your Business (May 17, 2010)
From Black AIDS Institute
- Enclosed by Disclosure: A Blog Entry by Tree Alexander (May 12, 2010)
When I started to date ... I wondered: Should I tell right away, should I tell on the third date, or should I wait until we are ready to take our relationship to the bedroom? Will they stay regardless?
From TheBody.com
- Disclosure Etiquette, Part 2: Preparing Yourself to Tell Others (March 22, 2010)
From Black AIDS Institute
- Disclosure Etiquette, Part 1: Do I Have to Kiss and Tell? (February 11, 2010)
From Black AIDS Institute
- Answering Questions About Sex: A Blog Entry by River Huston (October 21, 2009)
HIV-positive sex educator River Huston blogs her answers to questions from people with HIV about sex drive and disclosing to partners.
From River Huston
- Tips on Telling Others You're Positive
From TheBody.com
- The Word on Disclosure (June 2006)
To read PDF, click here.
In WORLD Newsletter, from Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases
- The Disclosure Dilemma: Telling Your Family Your Partner Has HIV (July 2004)
Advice from psychologist Dr. J. "Buzz" von Ornsteiner for HIV-negative people in a mixed-status relationship.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- Tell and Kiss: Dating and Disclosure (July 2004)
Social worker Michael Mancilla offers advice for anyone who's jittery about disclosing their HIV status to an HIV-negative partner.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- To Disclose or Not to Disclose? (Fall/Winter 2003)
That is the question we posed to these 5 PHAs ...
To read PDF, click here.
In The Positive Side, from Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
- Should You Disclose Your HIV Status to a Potential Sexual Partner? (Summer 2002)
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive
- Telling Others About Your HIV (July 2001)
In WISE Words, from Project Inform
- Don't Always Reveal Your Status -- Here's Why (March/April 2000)
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Disclosing Your HIV Status (June 1998)
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
- Should You Tell Your Children You Are HIV Positive? (October 1997)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- Start Networking! (September 1997)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- Say It Loud, Say It Often (January 1997)
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive
- To Tell or Not to Tell (January 1997)
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive
- How to Tell Others You Are HIV Positive (1994)
Part of There Is Hope: Learning to Live With HIV.
From HIV Coalition (HIVCO)
- Telling Your Child's School That Your Child Is HIV Positive (1994)
Part of There Is Hope: Learning to Live With HIV.
From HIV Coalition (HIVCO)
- Telling Your Employer You Are HIV Positive (1994)
Part of There Is Hope: Learning to Live With HIV.
From HIV Coalition (HIVCO)
- Surviving the Company Blood Drive When You're HIV-infected (1994)
Part of There Is Hope: Learning to Live With HIV.
From HIV Coalition (HIVCO)
- Talking With Your Children About Your Own or Their HIV (1994)
Part of There Is Hope: Learning to Live With HIV.
From HIV Coalition (HIVCO)
- Personal Perspectives on Talking With Kids About HIV (1994)
Part of There Is Hope: Learning to Live With HIV.
From HIV Coalition (HIVCO)
- A Note to Teens Who Have Just Learned They Are HIV-Positive (1994)
[Archived Article]
Part of There Is Hope: Learning to Live With HIV.
From HIV Coalition (HIVCO)
News & Other Articles
- A Discourse on HIV Disclosure (April 4, 2012)
"The struggle to effectively communicate with casual and main partners, the miscommunication between partners, the flawed internal self dialogue (making assumptions), the denial ... has created a collective environment whereby we are not talking to each other openly about HIV."
In Chelsea Now
- Remembering "The Announcement" (March 27, 2012)
In Black AIDS Weekly, from Black AIDS Institute
- Developing a Predictive Model to Prioritize Human Immunodeficiency Virus Partner Notification in North Carolina (February 27, 2012)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Canada: HIV-Positive People Should Always Tell Partner, Supreme Court Told (February 9, 2012)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Canada: Supreme Court to Decide Whether People With HIV Have to Tell Their Sex Partners (February 6, 2012)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 Coming Out HIV+: A Day With HIV in America -- A Blog Entry by Robert Breining (November 21, 2011)
"Robert and Jack will be discussing 'Coming Out HIV+' and why people choose to come out publicly as someone living with HIV/AIDS."
From TheBody.com
 Will This Generation's Magic Johnson Please Stand Up? (November 3, 2011)
Twenty years after Magic Johnson disclosed his HIV status, we're starving for a straight, HIV-positive celebrity who can be this generation's role model. Our news editor Kellee Terrell asks: "What will it take for him to come forward?"
From TheBody.com
 20 Years of Magic: How One Man's HIV Disclosure Inspired Others (November 2, 2011)
From TheBody.com
- Partner Notification of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Practices and Preferences (October 7, 2011)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- To Tell or Not? Disclosure Should Be Made to Measure (September/October 2011)
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- How to Talk to Your Partner About HIV and STDs (June 5, 2011)
In The Huffington Post
- Strauss-Kahn Case: Another Day, Another Vicious Attack on Women (May 18, 2011)
From U.S. Positive Women's Network
 Wanna Get Intimate? Sign Here, Please. (April 21, 2011)
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
- Housing Works Latino AIDS Exec "Comes Out"! (March 15, 2011)
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
 A Telling Tale of Trick or Treat: Remember to Spit, Don't Swallow! A Blog Entry by Bob Frascino, M.D. (October 20, 2010)
Disclosure of any secret is seldom easy and HIV status disclosure can be incredibly difficult, especially when dealing with a potential new trick -- or treat!
From TheBody.com
- Project Disclosure: Mondo Guerra Announces He Is HIV Positive -- A Blog Entry by Kellee Terrell (October 6, 2010)
From TheBody.com
- HIV and Disclosure (August 2010)
From The Well Project
- Disclosure Etiquette, Part 4: Why Our Silence Equals Death (August 2, 2010)
From Black AIDS Institute
- Study Explores Why Gay, HIV-Positive Men Do -- or Don't -- Disclose Their Status (September/October 2009)
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- AP/Yahoo! News Examines Increasing Use of Social Networking Sites to Reach People Exposed to HIV, Other STIs (April 21, 2009)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- After Hookups, E-Cards That Warn, "Get Checked" (February 3, 2009)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Los Angeles: New Web Site, inSPOTLA.org, Allows HIV-Infected People to Notify Partners via Anonymous E-Cards (December 15, 2005)
[Archived Article]
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Gay Men Less Likely to Tell Partners of HIV Than Heterosexuals (June 26, 2003)
[Archived Article]
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Women More Likely Than Men to Disclose an STI (Summer/Autumn 2002)
[Archived Article]
In Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS, from San Francisco AIDS Foundation
- Males Less Likely to Tell Partner About STD: Study (April 1, 2002)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- When Opposites Attract (May 2000)
[Archived Article]
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
- HIV+ Women (November/December 1999)
Dealing with stigma, obstacles to care, and getting support.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Among Ourselves: Be Seen, Be Counted -- Visibility Matters (April 1998)
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
- Sexual Ethics -- Disclosure of HIV-Positive Status to Partners (February 9, 1998)
In Archives of Internal Medicine
- Sweet Little Lies (January 1997)
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive
- A Column for Women: Among Ourselves .... (July 1996)
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
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