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healthysexual: “ Opposites attract. So it’s okay if a couple is serodiscordant, which is when one partner is living with HIV and the other is not. Mixed status couples can still keep things hot and healthy. There are ways you can protect and care for...High-res

healthysexual:

Opposites attract. So it’s okay if a couple is serodiscordant, which is when one partner is living with HIV and the other is not. Mixed status couples can still keep things hot and healthy.

There are ways you can protect and care for yourself and your partner:

  • Talk to your partner who’s living with HIV about the importance of sticking to HIV treatment: a lower (ideally undetectable) viral load can help lower the chance of passing HIV on to your partner during sex
  • Use condoms consistently and correctly
  • Talk to your doctor about all of your prevention options, like PrEP and PEP if you are HIV-negative, or TasP if you are living with HIV
  • Get tested routinely since some sexually transmitted infections (STIs) can make it easier to transmit HIV

You can read the full list of tips (plus tips for your partner) here.

(via healthysexual-deactivated201907)

lgbt-history-archive: ““MY NAME IS DUANE KEARNS PURYEAR. I WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 20, 1964. I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH AIDS ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1987 AT 4:45 PM. I WAS 22 YEARS OLD. SOMETIMES, IT MAKES ME VERY SAD. I MADE THIS PANEL MYSELF. IF YOU ARE READING IT,...High-res

lgbt-history-archive:

“MY NAME IS DUANE KEARNS PURYEAR. I WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 20, 1964. I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH AIDS ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1987 AT 4:45 PM. I WAS 22 YEARS OLD. SOMETIMES, IT MAKES ME VERY SAD. I MADE THIS PANEL MYSELF. IF YOU ARE READING IT, I AM DEAD…,” The Names Project–AIDS Memorial Quilt, Washington, D.C., October 10, 1992. Photo © Fred W. McDarrah.
According to Stephanie Poole’s 1998 article, “The Making of an AIDS Quilt,” Duane Puryear, who was born fifty-two years ago today, became an AIDS activist when he made his own quilt panel: “In creating this [panel], with needle and thread, Puryear completed the most significant reidentification possible. He identified himself as dead. Duane Puryear was sixteen when he contracted HIV. He was twenty-two when he was diagnosed with AIDS.” He once said that his goal was to be “the longest living person with AIDS.”
In 1991, “at the age of twenty-six, he died. He had lived with HIV for ten years. During [that] time, he became an activist…he worked on an AIDS hotline…he became a lecturer. In Dallas, he founded the speakers bureau, which [became] an important part of the Dallas AIDS Resource Center.”
By the end of 1991, over 156,000 people in America had died of HIV/AIDS-related diseases. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #NeverAgain #NeverForget (at The Mall (Washington DC))

“Empowered: Trans Women & HIV is a campaign from Greater Than AIDS to bring more understanding of the issues faced by transgender women in relation to HIV risk, prevention and care. By sharing common experiences, the campaign helps to reduce the social stigma many transgender women feel, while promoting actions to improve health and well-being.”

genhealth:

We have come a long way in the fight against HIV/AIDS: Since the Millennium Development Goals were first adopted in 2000 through 2013, new HIV infections fell by roughly 40%.

But the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to affect millions of people around the world and in the U.S, with marginalized communities disproportionately impacted and millions newly infected each year. In some of the hardest hit areas globally, adolescent girls and young women face poverty, gender inequality, exclusion, discrimination, lack of education, and violence, which put them at increased risk of acquiring HIV.

This World AIDS Day please continue to #StandWithPP and support efforts to end HIV/AIDS. Now is the time to move forward, not backward, on this issue which has impacted so many millions around the world. Let’s protect our progress, and double down on our efforts to end this epidemic.