FIRST+ are first person accounts from some of the most interesting people we know talking about HIV; whether it’s about when they were diagnosed, how stigma kills, or how they came out as positive to a friend, parent or partner.
Joanne Simons is the CEO of The Casey House, Canada’s first and only dedicated HIV/AIDS hospital. They do amazing work caring for their clients. But they also do incredible work bringing the harm that HIV stigma causes to light through amazing campaigns. Be INSPIRED. Watch Joanne’s interview and be sure to visit http://www.smashstigma.ca to see their amazing work in bringing the cost of stigma to … Continue reading +FIRST: Joanne Simons, The Casey House
It shouldn’t have taken this long 😡Karl is joined by Sarah Kate Ellis of GLAAD to discuss how GLAAD was able to help decrease the FDA deferral period for gay and bisexual men donating blood amidst a health crisis. #PlusLifeMedia | #EndHIVStigma Continue reading +FIRST: GLAAD’s Sarah Kate Ellis on Blood Donation
🗣️ Listen up! Colin Johnson, HIV activist, shares his insights on what an HIV diagnosis means in 2020 and the best practices one should take to live happy, healthy lives. #PlusLifeMedia | #EndHIVStigma Continue reading +FIRST: Activist Colin Johnson
Hydeia explains that having the scientific tools to prevent HIV is only half the battle. The other half focuses on community, personalization and ending the stigma for good. #PlusLifeMedia | #EndHIVStigma Continue reading +FIRST: Hydeia Broadbent
HIV can infect ANYONE. Jerry Fish is living proof. He isn’t the person one thinks of when you think about people living with HIV. He’s a straight guy who contracted HIV in his mid-fifties. Jerry is on a mission to tell anyone and everyone who will listen that HIV can get anyone. That’s why it’s so important to get tested, get on meds and fight … Continue reading +FIRST: Jerry Fish
Elvis Caus of the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation talks about BJF and it’s mission helping anyone living with HIV/AIDS and how their mission has evolved. They do amazing work! And it’s important for everyone out there in need of support to know about their work. BGF’s work is in inspiration and a reminder that there is help. You’re not alone. Continue reading +FIRST: Elvis Caus
When Ferdinand was diagnosed with HIV, he thought the worst – that he wouldn’t even live another 5 years. So he set out to travel the world, and he reached five years and then ten years of not just surviving but thriving, he began a social media campaign. His story is inspiring, but even more inspiring is how his I AM HIV campaign has touched … Continue reading +FIRST: Ferdinand Garcia
Zainab’s story isn’t just about HIV, it’s about stigma, shame and immigration – and the power to overcome everything life has thrown at you. Zainab escaped a brutal civil war in Somalia after being married at 12, mothering 6 children and enduring female circumcision only to discover while undergoing testing at an immigration detention center that she is HIV+. Most would have given up. She … Continue reading +FIRST: Zainab Kahaye
David “Polly” Polson was one of the first patients diagnosed with HIV in Australia. He lived through the worst of the AIDS crisis, losing friends, and enduring trials and treatments to help further the advancement of HIV medicines that nearly killed him. It’s thanks to pioneers like him that we have safe, effective treatments for HIV/AIDS today. But his incredible mindset kept him in the … Continue reading +FIRST: Polly
He is awesome and really well spoken and comes off as an intelligent, passionate person! MUST WATCH Legendary Activist and Founder of Treatment Action Group (TAG), Peter Staley, educates our society on how dangerous stigma really is and how we now have the tools TODAY to stop HIV in its tracks. #EndHIVstigma Continue reading First + Peter Staley
