living with HIV

Raif Derrazi has been living with HIV for more than a decade now, and he has responded to his diagnosis in a remarkable way: by remaking not just his body but his emotional life.

The son of the President went out of his way to promote stigma around HIV-positive people which has long been false.

Obituaries start with phrases like so-and-so “lost their battle with…”? Why do we start the memory of their life with a supposed failure?

When one woman gave birth to a daughter in 2002, doctors threw her out of the hospital when they found her newborn had full-blown AIDS.