Inspiring Stories: Family & Loved Ones & HIV/AIDS
General Family
- 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
- Profiles in Courage: Raven Lopez (February 2006)
Born HIV-positive, Raven Lopez, now 15, has always lived with the virus that she sees as little more than a footnote in her life.
From The Body
- "I Don't Want Others to Die Like My Wife" (July 13, 2004)
Dr. Leonard Okello heads the Ugandan branch of ActionAid, an AIDS advocacy group, and is an AIDS widower who has raised his three daughters alone since his wife's death.
From BBC News
- When McGann Loves a Woman (March 2004)
British actor Mark McGann talks about his recent public disclosure that his wife is HIV positive.
In Positive Nation
- "The Happiest Day of Our Life" -- A Gay Couple Living With HIV Adopts (September/October 2003)
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Paula Peterson and Griff Butler (2003)
In this excerpt from Roslyn Banish's book, an HIV-positive woman and her husband, who is negative, talk about their relationship, family life and raising their young son.
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In Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans With HIV and AIDS, from University of Massachusetts Press
- Soul Brothers (December 2002)
Kerry O. Burns' one-man play is about the life and death of his brother Timothy, who died of AIDS.
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
- Family Album (June 1999)
How ideas about "family" are redefined and celebrated by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- Losing Your Husband to AIDS (December 1997)
Elizabeth Avedon shares her experience.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- Mixed-HIV Status Couples: Navigating the Challenges of Everyday Life (October 1997)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- Living With HIV: Mom [and Me] (August 1996)
A writer finds comfort in the last person he'd expect to understand.
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
- A Married Couple Learns to Deal With HIV (Winter 1995)
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive
- Inspiring Stories of Living With AIDS
A collection of stories from family members, activists and people with HIV.
From Computerized AIDS Ministries
- Why I Wear a Red Ribbon
"BJ made me his wife, but AIDS made me his widow".
From Computerized AIDS Ministries
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