Ask a Guinea Pig: What Do I Need to Know Before Joining a PrEP Trial?
Editor’s note: For folks considering joining a study and helping advance HIV treatment, prevention, or cure research, today we launch “Ask a Guinea Pig,” BETA’s new quarterly column and your … Read More →
View ArticleAsk a Guinea Pig: What’s Involved in Cure Research—And Why Should I Participate?
HIV research has entered a new phase in order to find a cure. Clinical trials have traditionally sought to find treatments for people living with HIV, yet the new cure … Read More →
View ArticleAsk a Guinea Pig: Gene Therapy Clinical Trials—If and When
When I first became involved in AIDS treatment activism, many of us felt that the focus of HIV therapy should be the immune system—the target of HIV—rather than the virus. … Read More →
View ArticleAsk a Guinea Pig: How Can I Find a Clinical Trial Today?
In the early days of AIDS, accessing new treatments through a clinical trial frequently meant the difference between life and death. Finding out about a clinical trial was usually by … Read More →
View ArticleSan Francisco’s National HIV/AIDS Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day
June 5 started off like any other summer day in San Francisco. But as a Let’s Kick ASS (AIDS Survivor Syndrome) organizer of the first National HIV/AIDS Long-Term Survivors Awareness … Read More →
View ArticleTwenty-Plus Positive Years: An AIDS Survivor Dialogue in Melbourne
An afternoon session, titled “Twenty Plus Positive Dialogues: People Who Have Lived with HIV for 20 Years or More,” on July 22 at the International AIDS Conference Global Village featured … Read More →
View ArticleRevelations in Writing, Storytelling and Brotherhood by Long-Term Survivors
A captivating project for African American gay men who are long-term survivors in San Francisco culminated in a powerful storytelling performance over the weekend of San Francisco’s Pride celebration....
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