AIDS at 40: June 5, 2021 Here is Some of the Press
We still have to be visible but this was a nice change.
June 5, 2021, was big day. It was HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day and the 40th anniversary of the start of the AIDS pandemic. Here is some of the press on or around the day.
The Positive Effect Long-term HIV survivors thriving with spirit and compassion
Big Ideas + Actions
TODAY SHOW — June 2, 2020–40 years since the first AIDS cases, men living with HIV share their perspectives
Featuring Interviews with Bruce Richman @BR999 ; Jesse Milan Jr. @JesseMilanJr ; Deondre B. Moore @deondrebmoore ; Raif Derrazi @RDerrazi ; and Dr. Anthony Fauci
WHYY 40 year later: Philly nonprofits help residents living with HIV/AIDS
40 Years of AIDS — A Call To Action For Long Term Survivors #GAYNRD
http://bit.ly/gaynrdCall2Action
June 5th is also is also HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day (HLTSAD). Tez Anderson, a Long Term Survivor with HIV, and the founder of Let’s Kick ASS(AIDS Survivor Syndrome), says, “We stand a precipice. We can elevate the goals of the Ending The Epidemic to include improved Quality of Life, it is more than treating the virus, which is paramount, but so is increased focus on mental wellbeing. It is beyond surviving toward a mindset of thriving.”\
Anderson also notes it is a pivotal moment as he articulates in his manifesto, “AIDS at 40: Envisioning a Future We Never Imagined.”
Between now and September 5, 2021, we will compile your priorities, and together we’ll mobilize for change.
Send an email to Action@LetsKickASS.org in the “About” section include #HIVsurvivorsAction
“On September 18, 2021,” HIV and Aging Awareness Day, “we’ll begin working on tangible calls to action to ensure our needs are addressed. This is about creating a grassroots agenda and making that plan is implemented.”
“We’ve waited long enough,” Anderson writes “People living with HIV and AIDS deserve to age with dignity.”
BAR on the AIDS Memorial Grove Event
Bay Times by Tom Moon
The Peace Corps Recognizes HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day 2021
Dr. Anthony Fauci Introduces HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day and stories from survivors
THE HILL
Lessons of two epidemics: Our response to COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS
The urgency to develop a COVID-19 vaccine has led to the mobilization of the largest public health intervention in recent history; this is an immense effort in the wake of a virus that has spread rapidly with immeasurable destruction.
At the same time, we must recognize that we have yet to fully address the simultaneous viral epidemic that has been ravaging communities and causing devastation since it was first reported 40 years ago — HIV/AIDS. The disparity between the rapidity of government responses and availability of care is rooted in discrimination, and how marginalized populations, including the LGBTQ community, are often overlooked.
This marks the 40-year commemoration of the first official report of HIV/AIDS by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the lead up to HIV Long-term Survivors Awareness Day, on June 5 we honor the resilience of long-term survivors of HIV/AIDS, who have overcome the odds and thrived despite the challenges of being diagnosed before effective treatment was available.
Read the story here>>
Bay Area Reporter
The Bay Area Reporter spoke with three long-term survivors: Gabriel Quinto, a gay man who sits on the El Cerrito City Council; Tez Anderson, a 62-year-old gay man who was first diagnosed in 1986; and Marc Huestis, 66, a gay man who took an HIV test on the day it became available in 1985.
And I was in the 1990’s: The Culture Wars episode of PRIDE docuseries on FX and now on FX on HULU
The US Government on 40 Years of AIDS
Yours in resilience,
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