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Download The THE AT HOME ISSUE POSITIVELY AWAREAWARE HIV TREATMENT, PREVENTION AND HEALTH FROM TPAN JAN+FEB 2021 ROBERT GAROFALO, MD, MPH, AND FRED WHEN DOGS HEAL THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE V=V: VIREMIA EQUALS WHO’S ZOOMIN’ EXERCISE THE TESTERS VULNERABILITY WHO? AND NUTRITION ARE BEING TESTED 30 POSITIVELY AWARE JEFF BERRY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF @PAeditor ENID VÁZQUEZ ASSOCIATE EDITOR @enidvazquezpa ANDREW REYNOLDS HEPATITIS C EDITOR @AndrewKnowsHepC RICK GUASCO CREATIVE DIRECTOR @rickguasco SCOTT SCHOETTES LEGAL COLUMNIST @PozAdvocate PROOFREADER JASON LANCASTER PHOTOGRAPHERS HABEEB MUKASA JOHN GRESS CHRIS KNIGHT ADVERTISING MANAGER LORRAINE HAYES [email protected] DISTRIBUTION MANAGER DENISE CROUCH [email protected] SUBSCRIBE OR ORDER COPIES positivelyaware.com/subscribe LIVE LIFE POSITIVELY AWARE. FOR OVER 30 YEARS, PUBLISHED BY 5537 N. 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COMPILED BY ENID VÁZQUEZ 20 A dog’s power to heal A new book illustrates how a dog’s unconditional love can transform the lives of people living with HIV. BY RICK GUASCO ‘The good news is that it is never too late to get more active and there are solutions to becoming healthier safely in the time of COVID.’ —MARGARET DANILOVICH PT, DPT, PhD, PAGE 15 POSITIVELYAWARE.COM/SUBSCRIBE | JAN+FEB 2021 3 THE CATEGORY IS... NEW YEAR REALNESS What’s your biggest hope for 2021? That’s the question we asked our followers on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. They served up some honest feelings and experiences JOIN IN THE dying by 71%. Yet addressed, [my second hope is for] CONVERSATION despite this, peo- awareness of what it is like to live ple who die from with HIV on meds, so that younger [email protected] an overdose are folks who seem to think ‘it’s no big not tested for deal’ because it’s just a pill a day @posaware HIV, even though don’t get an idea that there are no it could be an side effects, physical and mental, POSITIVELY AWARE underlying or that we have to deal with.” 5537 N. partial cause of —BRANDON WIGGLESWORTH BROADWAY death.” CHICAGO, IL —RENA HUMBERT “I’m really looking forward to life 60640-1405 returning to a semblance of nor- ALL LETTERS, “My hope is for malcy. I honestly can’t wait. The EMAIL, ONLINE life to get back to past year was rough. And we’ve POSTS, ETC. some semblance got a ways to go yet before it starts are treated as of normal. Being getting better.” letters to the editor unless able to see my —JEFFERY PARKS otherwise doctor in person; instructed. going to hospital “In regards to life with HIV/AIDS, We reserve the for normalcy after this because I may be having a heart I hope that there will be continued right to edit for “I am hoping length, style, troubled year. No more, no less. attack; and not catching COVID strides made in treatments that or clarity. Let Just normalcy.” while being hospitalized. Seeing will allow those of us living with the us know if you —MARCELO F. LEVY friends in person and being able to virus to have a better quality of life, prefer not to have share a HUG.” especially for long-term survivors your name or city mentioned. “My hope for 2021 is that there —XIO MORA-LOPEZ like myself, a 30+ year survivor. For will be a bit of joy, happiness, and the general population, I hope that health. I hope that we experience a “My biggest hope, as a 38-year the COVID pandemic will finally GET YOUR little bit of togetherness and unity.” survivor, is that this horrible pan- slow its pace of sickness and death, SUBSCRIPTION —MARK L. GRANTHAM demic will have taught everyone as the vaccine(s) do their job, and OR ORDER that stigma is the wrong reaction that we as humans will do our BULK COPIES “I hope COVID-19 vaccines are to any disease. For too many years, part, by continuing to wear masks, available sooner rather than I walked around feeling like an social distancing, and other mea- later, with little to no side effects unclean leper.” sures, so that life might return to a to anyone with a compromised —KEITH B. DOLE more normal one. Sometimes we immune system; i.e. the HIV posi- just have to live, using the oppor- tive population.” “My biggest hope for the New Year tunities given to us each day, and —JOSUÉ E. HERNÁNDEZ is that people will take COVID-19 moving through and beyond the seriously. We ‘live with’ HIV at this perceived obstacles we encounter SCAN THIS QR CODE with your smart- “More awareness of the risk and point, but a disease that attacks along the way. phone, or go to spread of HIV through drug use. the upper respiratory system is par- “Hope, as they say, is planting positivelyaware. Drug use is rapidly increasing ticularly dangerous for folks with a daffodils in the autumn, so that com/subscribe as is overdose deaths due to the disease in which pneumonia often one might reap the benefits come pandemic. Having HIV increases a is what takes lives. Today, that is my spring.” person’s chance of overdosing and number one priority! Once that is —HAROLD SCOTT ©2021 POSITIVELY AWARE (ISSN: 1523-2883) is published bi-monthly by Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN), 5537 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640. TPAN is an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, providing information and support to anyone concerned with HIV and AIDS issues. POSITIVELY AWARE is a registered trademark of TPAN. All rights reserved. Readership: 100,000. For reprint permission, email inbox@tpan. com. Six issues mailed bulk rate for $30 donation; mailed free to those living with HIV or those unable to contribute. We accept submission of articles covering medical or personal aspects of HIV/AIDS, and reserve the right to edit or decline submitted articles. When published, the articles become the property of TPAN, POSITIVELY AWARE, and its assigns. You may use your actual name or a pseudonym for publication, but include your name, email address, and phone number with your story. Although POSITIVELY AWARE takes great care to ensure the accuracy of all the information it presents, POSITIVELY AWARE staff and volunteers, TPAN, and the institutions and personnel who provide us with information cannot be held responsible for any damages, direct or consequential, that arise from use of this material or due to errors contained herein. Opinions expressed in POSITIVELY AWARE are not necessarily those of staff or TPAN, its supporters and sponsors, or distributing agencies. Information, resources, and advertising in POSITIVELY AWARE do not constitute endorsement or recommendation of any medical treatment or product. TPAN recommends that all medical treatments or products be discussed thoroughly and frankly with a licensed and fully HIV-informed medical practitioner, preferably a personal physician. A model, photographer, or author’s HIV status should not be assumed based on their appearance in POSITIVELY AWARE, association with TPAN, or contributions to this journal. 4 JAN+FEB 2021 | POSITIVELYAWARE.COM/SUBSCRIBE EDITOR’S NOTE JEFF BERRY @PAeditor Finding home in a pandemic When I think of home There were a lot of people who volunteered for these I think of a place where there's love overflowing studies, and we had many more study sites than I wish I was home usual. Operation Warp Speed allowed for companies I wish I was back there with the things I’ve been knowing to begin stockpiling doses of the vaccines even before the FDA approved them for use. —From the song, Home, by Charlie Smalls But medical mistrust is still real, especially among in the musical, The Wiz people of color, and will need to be addressed using effective public health messaging, changing the way “Home isn't a place, it’s a feeling.” we deliver healthcare, and through building back —novelist Cecilia Ahern trust.
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