Category: HIV News

HIV Long term survivors awareness day is June 5th.  The organization  “Let’s kick ass” has pulled together advocacy information to support this day.  From their web site:

HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day (HLTSAD) is June 5, 2021, on the 40th anniversary of the first five cases of AIDS reported in the US in 1981.

With the theme “AIDS at 40: Envisioning a Future We Never Imagined”, Let’s Kick ASS‑AIDS Survivor Syndrome invites all HIV/AIDS long-term survivors to send us YOUR unmet needs, issues, and challenges.

Send an email to: Action@LetsKickASS.org. Between now and September 1, 2020, we will compile your priorities, and together we’ll mobilize for change.

On September 18, 2021, HIV and Aging Awareness Day, we’ll begin working on tangible calls to action to improve the quality of our lives. September 18 is also the anniversary of LKA’s first town hall in 2013.

It’s up to us to set our action plan addressing the present-day and future needs, issues, and challenges facing people living longest with HIV/AIDS.

We’ve waited long enough.

HLTSAD is not a time to look back at our traumatic pasts. (That’s for World AIDS Day.) Our goal over the coming months is for YOU to set our agenda and priorities for moving forward and take action to make changes. 

People living with HIV/AIDS deserve to age with dignity.

https://www.hltsad.org/

June 2021 marks 40 years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. For the occasion, Vice Studios filmed a two-hour documentary titled Vice Versa: The Neglected Pandemic, 40 Years of HIV & AIDS. The special premieres Wednesday, June 2, and is narrated by Queer Eye star and author Jonathan Van Ness, according to an exclusive in The Hollywood Reporter. [POZ article]

http://https://www.poz.com/article/tv-special-explore-like-living-hiv-today

This is the first of our POZ Stories series, which highlights the people and organizations that are making a difference to the POZ community in San Diego. Jerry Turner is the Managing Director of the POZabilities organization and he talks about the group, its activities and future. He also shares stories about his life and history as a POZ activist.

On February 26th, the NIH updated recommendations for folks with HIV regarding COVID vaccines.

Click here for info!

POZabilities is sponsoring a discussion with Sen Laird who has introduced legislation (SB 258) to add Personas with HIV/AIDS to the class of individuals who are eligible for enhanced services from the California department of Aging.  Join us for the zoom session at 5:#0 on March 2, 2021.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86372022642?pwd=a3MwQVc0U0p2aytQWkZEQjlaazZXQT09

Meeting ID: 863 7202 2642
Passcode: 504292

If you are a resident of San Diego county and receiving services funded through the Ryan White Care Act, consider attending the HIV Planning group consumer committee.  The planning group, within the County Health department, sets priorities and discusses how these funds are spent. Make your voice heard.

http://www.sdplanning.org/consumer-involvement/

The HIV Plan was developed collaboratively by federal partners from six federal departments and 12 HHS agencies and offices through a process led by the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and its Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP). Significant community input was gathered throughout the development process to inform and refine the HIV Plan.

https://www.hiv.gov/blog/hhs-releases-hiv-national-strategic-plan-roadmap-ending-hiv-epidemic-us