by Jeff Berry, Executive Director | Jun 5, 2024 | Blog
At the recent OnAging conference in San Francisco in March, I was privileged to participate in a panel discussion on the needs of HIV long-term survivors. There, I spoke about my friend Steven from Amsterdam who I met at Folsom St. Fair in San Francisco in 1998. We...
by Jeff Berry, Executive Director | May 12, 2024 | Blog
This article originally appeared as the Editor’s Note in the Positively Aware September/October 2006 issue. Reprinted with permission. I am not I. I am this one Walking beside me whom I do not see. Whom at times I manage to visit, And whom at other times I forget. Who...
by Heather O' Connor | Apr 15, 2024 | Blog
Words of wisdom from a younger survivor By Heather O’Connor I’d say I’ve had some “dark things” happen to me so far in life. The kind of “thing” that makes you lose your breath for a moment like you’ve been punched so hard in the gut that spit flies out of your mouth....
by Waheedah Shabazz-El | Feb 8, 2024 | Blog
The impact of social and economic inequities in Black communities is HIV. In honor of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), I’m reminded of the first time I came to know of HIV in the Black community–in the public housing project community where I was living...
by Jeff Berry, Executive Director | Sep 18, 2023 | Blog
For many of us aging with HIV, we don’t really need an awareness day once a year to remind us of something that we live with each and every day. But this particular day, National HIV and Aging Awareness Day on September 18, helps bring attention to the myriad issues...
by Jeff Berry, Executive Director | Jun 5, 2023 | Blog
We have to celebrate the wins and continue to build alliances and forge partnerships. By Jeff Berry, Executive Director June 5 is HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day. When I read the daily news, I sometimes ask myself, I survived the AIDS epidemic for this? With...
