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In Mississippi, Efforts to Fight HIV Epidemic Clash With Health Care Disenfranchisement
Fighting Mississippi’s HIV epidemic is about more than just getting people living with HIV or at risk for HIV on a pill. It means confronting the reality that for many in the state, their primary care doctor is the emergency room.

In the Boston Metro Area, a Tale of Two HIV Epidemics Emerges
While black and Latinx gay and bisexual men and transgender women make up a larger portion of HIV cases in and around Boston, the opioid crisis has led to spiking HIV rates among injection drug users.
Fighting Philadelphia’s HIV Epidemic Also Means Fighting Its Poverty Problem
The HIV epidemic in Philadelphia is heavily concentrated in its black population. Local caregivers at BEBASHI have seen diagnosis rates drop in recent years, though there’s still progress to be made.

In My Feelings: 16 Years Since My AIDS Diagnosis
Living with HIV for the past 16 years and being over the age of 50, Charles Sanchez is showing signs of aging, but no sign of slowing down.

A Play in NYC Wittily Explores the Emotional Toll on HIV Plague-Era Survivors
'Still at Risk' is about long-term survivors, but it's for younger gay men too.

Stories of African-American Women Aging With HIV: 'My Life Wasn't What I Hoped It to Be'
"HIV for African-American women has never been a single issue, separate from histories of addiction, trauma and poverty," Thurka Sangaramoorthy writes.

HIV and Aging: A Growing Population Faces Unique Challenges
A conversation with Jeff Taylor, longtime HIV community and research advocate and cancer survivor.

A Little Gratitude
On the 30th anniversary of her HIV diagnosis, Dawn Averitt writes, "Just being alive in 2018, the mother of three daughters, did not only seem unlikely in 1988, it seemed implausible at best and more realistically, impossible at the time."

What Is an HIV Long-Term Survivor? Five People With HIV Grapple With the Question
Justin B. Terry-Smith talks with five people who have been HIV positive between 10 and 30-plus years to better understand what being a long-term survivor means and to learn about some of the challenges they face.

This HIV Survivor Quit Smoking to Vape. Don't Judge. A Blog Entry by Mark S. King
"My years of smoking are much more likely to kill me than HIV," Mark S. King writes. "I suppose that's progress, and testament to how far we have come in my 32 years living with the virus. So why am I so defensive about my switch to vaping?"