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From being diagnosed to your current situation, has HIV played a role in your life in some way? Whether it be financial, physical, or spiritual. ..etc. ...has it been a good or a bad thing?

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Colors say a lot,.... whether it be on our clothes, our walls, our cars or just in general.
What is your favorite color?

The 2024 retrovirus conference ended this week and there was some promising news. They found out the drugs Islatravir and lenacapavir taken together once a week worked just as well as once a day ARVS. To me this is good news since I really hate taking pills everyday. Instead of 365 pills a year ,taken 52 pills a year sounds good to me.i know there is the every other month injectable’s but i dont know if i want to get injections just yet. Of course this new once a week drug is still at least a… read more

I have posted this quite awhile ago, but we have many, many, many, many new members since
Here are some of the benefits (but not all, AND depending on state or agency)
1) Housing help. There is a program called HOPWA. It will help cover some of your monthly rent or mortgage payments but not all of it. Amount varies by state or HIV agency. Example: say your rent is $1,000 a month. Hopwa may pay the first 3 months of your rent at full amount, leaving you with the other 9 months to pay, or they… read more

A lot of The Times when we seroconvert , things come into play that prevent us from having sex or enjoying the gratifications of human stimulation.
Has this happened to you?

In some cases, HIV can bypass the barrier that encases the brain and cerebrospinal fluid which can contribute to brain inflammation and neurocognitive symptoms.

Read more here:
https://www.aidsmap.com/news/oct-2023/hiv-brain...

Talking to those who have had this disease for 20 or more years have made me wonder what progress have we made in keeping them and newly infected alive with meds.im new to this and respect long term survivor’s opinion on this subject. At the same time those newly diagnosed have another perspective. Mine is while no cure is on the horizon but close I believe,what we have is 1000 times better then what was around in the early nineties.you can live a normal life with this disease . anyone agree or… read more

usually as the holidays come into play, I start to get plagued by anxiety or depression thinking about things that could’ve been thinking about people I miss thinking about people that have passed and for me can get overwhelming and I get stuck in a loophole of thinking what are some tools that some of you used to escape recently I found the app calledcom and I also started exercising I run almost every day. What are some tips that you guys used to deal with these things that are positive?