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This WAR on HIV must be won by education & awareness!One of the dirty little secrets of today's international order is that the rest of the globe could topple the United States from its hegemonic status whenever they so choose with a concerted abandonment of the dollar standard. This is America's preeminent, inescapable Achilles Heel for now and the foreseeable future.

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2004 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 52 58
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LIFE HISTORY-STARTIN MEDS..KEEP THE FAITH!

This WAR on HIV must be won by education & awareness!I have hope that humanity will come to it's sences,& stop this pollution & wasteing sooner rather then later.Green movement is growing more & more everyday,as more peoples realize we must do something & change ourselves & behaviours, & to be more productive & try to find ways to help our fellow man.I do mine by HIV-AIDS Education & awareness ,Harm Reduction safe sex condom promo,methadone & basicly i tell my story,or parts of my story ,depending on where i am speaking.As a recovering coke,heroin & speed addict,i have seen & done alot .I was aquitted of murder 2 in 1998 & was released in time to bury my grandfather.I had already lossed my dad in 77 & my bro in 88..& in 04 my ex brenda,,friend dave,both died of aids related complications & then my daughter cory to HPV.I was clean 2 weeks & was in detox ,when i found out she was in hospital.I was at her side for most of the time,& i think that helped me to stay clean.My kid needed me with her,& I wasn't going to let her down again,ever!I told myself if i could stay clean through this ,i could stay clean through anything!That was 3 yrs ago & and i am still clean..& she is no longer in pain..as she died 1 month after her 22 Birthday..& she's at peace..i am starting meds soon,& i am scared because i don't want to go into withdrawels..u c HIV meds metabilize the ,methadone up too 50%!Last time i tried meds,i was sick for 2 months & finaly quit the meds as i couldn't handle the withdrawels.I guess i will have to go through all that again eh,as its a part of being HIV+,a part that sucks ,but ,it will help me to live for 24 more yrs .at least i'm hoping for 25.GODBLESS ALL MY FELLOW HIV WARRIORS!

Just For Today,Rich or Poor? Happy anyways!

This WAR on HIV must be won by education & awareness!Entry for August 31, 2007/Canadians Living in Poverty- Surprising?Not to Me
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As i sit here typing this,i'm watching a doc on tvo about poverty in canada.It's about a single mother raising her 6 kids in ontario,& as i came from that same no in my family,i began to notice many of the same things that happened in their family,was very familier territory,as we had done many of the exact same things & gone through the same emotions.The thing is we were always happy,we were together,& that was the main thing.I didnt know growing up that we were poor.It wasn't untill i was out on my own at 15,that it really hit me,as i had to live in rundown places to afford the rent.I know what its like to go with-out a mean & have eating alot of pasta in my time.But we were happy when we were together,& didnt notice the run down places that were always too small for the six of us.When one spring morning we woke up & our place had 2 feet of water we made a game out of it & had a grand ol time!!Floating on different things,Avast ye sailers,man the life boats" capn,we canna fin da leeeek sur!loljk!!so ,here i am today,living in housing,not were i grew up,but still,they all have that same type of build eh!Rent is geared to income,so i pay 150/month.I make 1,000/month.so now i have 850- 200,food=650- 300=meds=350-200-oz-pot=150 -cabble,web=50-phone=0.!!!!So as you can see,i just manage to get by.Its hard to buy fresh vegs & fruit as its more expensive,but i do the best i can with what i have,& i am happy & gratefull for everything the Lord has given me.ii have lived on 10,000/yr for along time.Food has gone up many times & yet my checks havent.but i am ok,i know that compared to the rest of the world,I am a very Rich man!in canadian standards i am a very poor man.By my own standards,i think i am an average joe canadian guy,just trying to do the best he can with what he's got,keeping hope & faith that things will be ok,just for today!

With So Many Relgeons,Why So Much War?Love Has Gone?

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Well i am single once again as the girl i was seeing decided she wanted too sell crack to make some quick cash!That was last week,& i havent bothered to call & see how's she's doing,i know how she's doing & what she's doing=crack heads don't change overnight.I knew she would go back to useing because she was getting very bitchy & trying to start a fight so she could justify her useing-i didn't buy into that & told her to go ahead if thats what she wanted & sure enough,it was.I am a coke,heroin & speed addict with 3 yrs clean time in & cannot allow ANYONE or ANYTHING put my sobriety in jepardy.I am HIV+ & so i smoke pot to help with my eating & nasea,as well as to help me relax & it puts me into a better frame of mind.If injesting alittle weed now & then raises my quality of life,well,i'm in like flynn!& it does,just ask any cancer patient,or anyone that is sick & dyeing a slow & painfull death can attest that weed does indeed,ease side effects of toxic drugs we have to take to kill cancer or HIV virus.Its also used alot to aid peoples eating,as when U R on toxic meds,you often have nasea & simply dont feel like eating.Smoke a J & wait 1/2hr & then you might be able to keep something down,u hope.sometimes i have to smoke a couple of them to kick in the munchies.Guess it depends on how good your product is eh? Living with HIV can be hard at the best of times.You have to change your whole lifestyle if yu expect to live for awhile.Eating healthy is a must.Complimentry therapies are also good to help you win the war against cancer or HIV.At this time the ave life expectency is 24 urs after diagnoses,with some advancing alot faster then others. I find that dateing is almost impossable when your poz.You have to change so much,lifestyle,diet,your outlook on life changes as well.I have learned to apreciate the smaller things in life & don't sweat the bigger stuff,i give all my problems over to the lord & just trust in him & his son.Your faith is tested bigtime.You keep hoping that maybe they will find a cure in time,or another pill that will extend your life for another day,month,year! You try & keep up to date on the newest treatments,newest meds that are under developement,& anything else that might help you in your battle with cancer or hiv or whatever disease it is that is putting your life at risk.Then there's all those "green tea cures" or cures of some type or other.For along time the south african Gov. told their peoples to eat beetroot & lemons to keep the HIV virus at bay.Another president says he has the cure,& its only available on certain days of the week.You have to wade through all the garbage information,of which their are TONS,& just trying to find the stuff thats legit is aq battle initself!Theres so many websites out there now,all trying & vieing for your $$$$ & most have charges to join or will hit you with some sort of bill sooner or later. Another thing that happens is you begin to question your religeon.As your slowly dyeing you want to make sure that your in the right one eh?But just which of the religeons is right?I have studied with Jehova Wittnes's,&Mormons, in the last 2 yrs.I have also read alittle of the Koran & have read about Buddism.I still don't know what one is the right one.I think they all have some good points as well as bad points.I think i am a christian,as i really think that the bible is an accurate picture of history.It seems as time goes on more & more findings reveal the truth,& that the bible is history of man.& GOD.The thing is this...who decided just what scriptures to add?what about the ones that were NOT included??where are they?what ones are they by?We have 4 books out of a possable 12.Where are the other apostles writings?& just what religeons where around at the time of Christ?I know he read from the Old testament,at least i think he did.Did he NOT quote from the old testament when he was tested by satan?Yeppers 3 times he did. So ,with the hundreds of religeons,cults,sects,& other organizations ,what ones are good & what ones are not so good?Wiccan is another one,i know someone that is a wiccan & they are one of the nicest persons i have ever had the honour & privilidge to meet,& if all these profess Love & kindness,why then are there so many conflicts in so many places?there are aprox 120 wars going on right now in the world.Thats far too many!& nation shall rise against nation comes to mind outta the revelation i think it is.Its almost certain that we are living in what the Bible calls=End Times!!Floods,famines,locusts,wars & rumours of wars,earthquakes,sunami's,hurricanes,tornadoes.Its all there & we are going through everyone of them.& its only supposed to get worse as it gets closer to that final war,Armeggeddon.The war to end all wars!God himself is supposed to be in this one!Well,today looks nice & sunny out & i think i'm going for a stroll.My blogging has gotten way too serious lately with all this talk of End times stuff.I think about this stuff so thats why is blog about it all.I dont hold much back as you are probably already aware of eh folks?Well i wish you all a very good day,& respect yourselves enough that you will pass on stickin a needle into your arm,or taking the drink to help you calm your nerves.Ahh i'll just do 1!!I have heard that so many times!!OK well Peace n Love NOT Wars n Walls eh folks!!

Jesus said to love one another eh!

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Great News For India-Only 1/2 of est, are HIV+

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NEW DELHI (AP) -- Experts originally said India had the most HIV cases in the world -- 5.7 million -- and that number could rise unless aggressive measures were adopted.

Yesterday, that consensus changed dramatically when international AIDS experts and Indian health officials revealed new data showing India to have less than half of that number -- 2.5 million people -- infected with HIV.

The government and the international community are paying more attention and spending more money to fight AIDS in India. Yesterday, the Indian health minister announced a new phase of the federal AIDS control program, with the Indian government pledging $1.95 billion -- nearly 40 times what it spent in the last round.

The plan has an expected budget of $2.8 billion and has attracted high-profile donors. The previous plan, announced in 1999, had a budget of less than $350 million.

Expanded surveys and an improved methodology provided a far more accurate -- and more encouraging -- portrait of India's HIV epidemic, said Health Minister Anubani Ramadoss.OK waycool,so only 2,000,00 r HIV+!!!How many of these peoples are on HIV MEDS???& Just how many more havent been tested yet??I wouldn't start celebrating yet folks!!Peace n love not wars n walls eh folks!!

HIV & hep-c ,Treating Hep-c first & then treating HIV

This WAR on HIV must be won by education & awareness!The Benefits of Treating HCV Infection in HIV-Infected Patients
Among HIV/HCV-coinfected patients, risk for ART-associated hepatotoxicity was lower among those who had responded to HCV therapy than among those who had not.


Many antiretroviral agents are associated with hepatotoxicity, which can limit treatment options for HIV-infected patients. Although the risk for drug-related hepatotoxicity is known to be higher among patients coinfected with HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) than among those with HIV monoinfection, whether effective treatment of chronic HCV infection reduces this risk remains unclear. Now, investigators report results of a retrospective study of 132 HIV/HCV-coinfected patients in Spain who had completed a full course of interferon-based anti-HCV therapy before they received antiretroviral therapy (ART).

Forty-three patients (33%) achieved a sustained virologic response (SVR), defined as an undetectable HCV RNA for 6 months after treatment withdrawal and thereafter. The rate of hepatotoxicity during ART was 9.3% among the 43 patients with an SVR, versus 37.5% among the 89 patients without an SVR (P<0.001). Likewise, the proportion of patients with grade 3 or 4 alanine-transaminase elevations was greater among those without an SVR (27.3% vs. 6.9%; P=0.007). In logistic regression analysis, the only variables independently associated with hepatotoxicity were lack of an SVR (odds ratio, 6.1; 95% confidence interval, 1.8–37.5) and receipt of a dideoxynucleoside (didanosine or stavudine) (OR, 3.6; 95% CI, 1.2–10.4).

Comment: The prospect of reducing ART-associated hepatotoxicity argues in favor of treating HCV prior to HIV in coinfected patients with high CD4-cell counts for whom delaying ART initiation is safe. As an editorialist points out, many patients present late in their disease, with low CD4-cell counts and their first AIDS-defining opportunistic infection. For such patients, HIV treatment must come first. More data are needed to determine whether preemptive HCV therapy is appropriate for patients who fall in between these two extremes (e.g., CD4 counts of 200–350 cells/mm3). For now, the fact that only a minority of patients achieve an SVR after HCV therapy suggests that ART should not be delayed for patients in this "gray zone."

— Daniel J. Diekema, MD, MS

Treatment of Hep-c Before HIV Recommended

This WAR on HIV must be won by education & awareness!Many antiretroviral agents are associated with hepatotoxicity, which can limit treatment options for HIV-infected patients. Although the risk for drug-related hepatotoxicity is known to be higher among patients coinfected with HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) than among those with HIV monoinfection, whether effective treatment of chronic HCV infection reduces this risk remains unclear. Now, investigators report results of a retrospective study of 132 HIV/HCV-coinfected patients in Spain who had completed a full course of interferon-based anti-HCV therapy before they received antiretroviral therapy (ART).

Forty-three patients (33%) achieved a sustained virologic response (SVR), defined as an undetectable HCV RNA for 6 months after treatment withdrawal and thereafter. The rate of hepatotoxicity during ART was 9.3% among the 43 patients with an SVR, versus 37.5% among the 89 patients without an SVR (P<0.001). Likewise, the proportion of patients with grade 3 or 4 alanine-transaminase elevations was greater among those without an SVR (27.3% vs. 6.9%; P=0.007). In logistic regression analysis, the only variables independently associated with hepatotoxicity were lack of an SVR (odds ratio, 6.1; 95% confidence interval, 1.8–37.5) and receipt of a dideoxynucleoside (didanosine or stavudine) (OR, 3.6; 95% CI, 1.2–10.4).

Comment: The prospect of reducing ART-associated hepatotoxicity argues in favor of treating HCV prior to HIV in coinfected patients with high CD4-cell counts for whom delaying ART initiation is safe. As an editorialist points out, many patients present late in their disease, with low CD4-cell counts and their first AIDS-defining opportunistic infection. For such patients, HIV treatment must come first. More data are needed to determine whether preemptive HCV therapy is appropriate for patients who fall in between these two extremes (e.g., CD4 counts of 200–350 cells/mm3). For now, the fact that only a minority of patients achieve an SVR after HCV therapy suggests that ART should not be delayed for patients in this "gray zone."

— Daniel J. Diekema, MD, MS

where have all the ribbons gone?

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Where Have All the Ribbons Gone?
AIDS Symbols -- Compassion or Fashion?

by Laura Engle

January/February 2000

James is a waiter in a pub in New York City's theatre district.His dress is typical of that worn by the staff in many of the casual restaurants in the area: black pants, white cotton shirt, pocketed apron at the waist. In the collar of his shirt James wears a red ribbon -- one of the small metal enameled ones. He's been wearing it since 1992.

James, to some people, is hopelessly out of date.

On a recent evening, a young woman from California and her mother were seated at one of James's tables. As he served their water, brought their menus, and prepared to take their drink and food orders, James chatted with the women, answering their questions about the restaurant's menu and the shows they might like to catch on Broadway.

Then the younger woman noticed the pin in James's lapel. "Is that one of those AIDS red ribbons?" she asked. When James said that it was, the woman seemed puzzled. "I didn't think those were still in fashion," she said.


The red AIDS ribbon certainly did not start out as a fashion accessory. I remember once, in the early 'nineties, a counter woman in a bakery asking me why I was wearing one. When I told her it stood for AIDS awareness, as an expression of support for those living with the virus and in memory of those who had died, she started yelling and refused to serve me, because "I don't want no AIDS!"

The Birth of a Symbol

The red ribbon as a symbol of AIDS awareness was conceived in the spring of 1991 at the Visual AIDS Artists Caucus. Painter Frank Moore lived in upstate New York, where a neighboring family were displaying yellow ribbons in support of their soldier-daughter's safe return from the Persian Gulf. "It convinced me that it could be a metaphor for AIDS as well," he said. "It just seemed there were a lot more people ready to support action against AIDS than were publicly identified." (Ribbon symbols didn't start with the Gulf War, either. I remember green inverted-V ribbons being worn as symbols of concern about the Atlanta child murders twenty years ago.)

The idea was adopted by Visual AIDS, which, as an organization made up of artists and art professionals, quite naturally promoted the use of visible symbols of the fight against AIDS. It started simply enough. From an early Visual AIDS handout: "Cut red ribbon 6" in length, then fold at the top into an inverted 'V' shape. Use a safety pin to attach to clothing."

The Ribbon Project was officially launched at the 45th Annual Tony Awards ceremony on June 2 of that year. All of the nominees and presenters were encouraged -- with a good bit of success -- to wear the ribbons. According to the Visual AIDS press release announcing The Ribbon Project, "The red ribbon (an inverted 'V' without a bow) will act as a symbol of our sympathy, support and hope for a day without AIDS. All involved with this project hope that by December 1st, World AIDS Day, these ribbons will be worn across the world."

And it caught on bigtime. Even though AIDS-phobia was at its height, red ribbons began sprouting from lapels, hat brims, purse flaps -- anything that could take a safety pin. Over the next few years, the ribbons became part of the dress code for the glitterati at not only the Tonys but the Oscars and the Emmys too.

From Acceptance to Cliché

Then came the non-ribbon ribbons. The small enameled metal pins, like the ones James wears, didn't get dirty and didn't unravel and leave red threads on people's clothes. Pictures of red ribbons appeared on T-shirts. Ribbons were embroidered on baseball caps, windbreakers, backpacks, and all manner of other casual clothing. Red-ribbon pins got bigger and fancier, becoming less symbol than jewelry. Some were set with garnets and other red stones; even a pin covered with rubies was advertised.

The ribbon's progeny moved off of clothing and onto practically everything else. China candy dishes. Christmas tree ornaments. Briefly (until a rate increase made it obsolete) a first-class postage stamp. Champion figure skater Rudy Galindo, who had lost a brother and two coaches to AIDS, performed a program in which he was dressed as a red ribbon.

With saturation came backlash. Many in the HIV/AIDS community found little of substance in this sea of symbolic concern. The perception was that people were wearing AIDS ribbons instead of working for a cure, a vaccine, and vital services. The charge was hypocrisy.

And not without some justification. Even as AIDS became, briefly, the charitable flavor of the month, ribbons on lapels didn't always translate into money in the banks of AIDS organizations, or the kind of real political action needed to budge the pols and the healthcare establishment off the status quo.

Visual AIDS had decided at the beginning not to trademark its red ribbon because, as Frank Moore said, "We didn't want to discourage people from using it." The down side of that is that among those "using it" were commercial enterprises cashing in on the latest fad. If you bought a ribbon product at, for example, Under One Roof, the San Francisco not-for-profit gift store for AIDS charities, you could be pretty sure that your purchase did more than make a visual statement to those who happened to pass you on the street. If you bought it at a big department store, though, it probably didn't. And if you bought it from a guy with a card table on the street, you could be underwriting child labor half a world away.

And then there are the aesthetic considerations. In conjunction with World AIDS Day 1997, Visual AIDS, originator of The Ribbon Project, published a booklet called Art. AIDS. Action. It contains an interview with essayist and critic Daniel Harris about what he calls "The Kitschification of AIDS." Harris describes a walk through "the epidemic's strip mall" in the Castro, past a ribbon-festooned Christmas tree, ribbon-wearing teddy bears, miracle-touting objets, and even "a line of AIDS-specific sympathy cards sporting inconsolable naked men sobbing on tombstone angels."

Harris, who is also the author of The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture (Hyperion, 1997), attributes the proliferation of this "AIDS product" to harsh political realities. "My thesis is this," he says. "In the early days of the epidemic, the Reagan and Bush administrations refused to allocate the money necessary to cover basic costs of research and treatment, with the result that movie stars, and not government officials, became the epidemic's statesmen, its panhandlers, the ones who were forced to seek alternative sources of funding out in the open market, in charity balls, rock concerts, and fashion benefits. Because of insufficient federal funds, activists were forced to turn the disease into a commodity and sell it to the public like any snack food. They compensated for lack of government support with private support, with charitable contributions, which they extorted from the public by arousing pity for the victims, by packaging the epidemic in sentimental clichés that reduced potential donors to a state of maximum susceptibility. The more money that was needed for the disease, the kitschier it became. Had the Republican administrations of the 1980s been more responsible, the epidemic would not have spawned nearly as many sentimental images which activists designed expressly to overcome consumer resistance and prime the pumps of private contributions. So I see kitsch in crudely economic terms, as a practical response to federal irresponsibility, which provoked a massive PR blitz as tacky as any advertising campaign for a new shampoo or a dish detergent."

And so, for whatever reason or combination of reasons, the red AIDS ribbon is less ubiquitous than in years past. To some, it remains a symbol of continued commitment, even in the face of AIDS apathy. To others, it has itself become a symbol of the fickleness of the self-proclaimed philanthropist. To yet others, it is just yesterday's accessory.

The Other Symbols

The ribbon, of course, is not the only symbol that was taken to the hearts of many in the HIV/AIDS community, and it is not the only one to generate controversy or the only one to outlive its own popularity.

Two of the most important early expressions of solidarity with people with AIDS were also initiated by The Ribbon Project's parent, Visual AIDS. Day Without Art and Night Without Light, both observed on World AIDS Day, December 1, began in 1988 in recognition of the devastating impact the epidemic was having on the art and theatre communities.

During its first few years, Day Without Art was symbolically just that. Art museums, galleries, and municipalities with public art displays across the country removed paintings and sculptures from public view or covered them with black drapes, as a demonstration that the loss of an artist is a universal loss. Day Without Art has metamorphosed in recent years into a Day With Art. Visual AIDS, as part of its program of support for HIV-infected artists, arranges countless exhibits of their work in venues large and small, and supplies information to assist art groups around the world commemorate World AIDS Day.

Night Without Light was conceived as a similar demonstration involving the theatrical world. In the Broadway theatre district -- the "Great White Way" of song and legend -- theatre marquees went dark for fifteen minutes on World AIDS Day, commemorating the loss of so many in the theatre world. Other city landmarks, including the Empire State Building, joined in the observance, transforming the Manhattan skyline into a visual reminder of the impact of AIDS.

By 1999, enthusiasm apparently had diminished. The Broadway lights were turned off, but only for one minute, and the gesture went almost unnoticed by the press.

Night Without Light did live on, however, albeit only after AIDS activists succeeded in making some noise. As the December spending season approached, plans were being made for record-breaking hoopla surrounding the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. The people who decide these things scheduled the gala ceremony for December 1, apparently unaware or unconcerned that this was World AIDS Day. When the Christmas tree (the biggest ever!) was being delivered and set up before being decorated, a group of AIDS activists invaded Rockefeller Center and mounted a vocal protest against the insensitivity of throwing a big, nationally telecast, party on such a solemn day. The result was that Rockefeller Center officials capitulated in part, and, after the huge tree was lit, its lights were turned off for one minute in symbolic recognition of World AIDS Day. Ana Olivera, the newly minted Executive Director of Gay Men's Health Crisis, was allowed to deliver a World AIDS Day message -- still on that national telecast! -- before the microphone was turned back over to the carol singers and holiday cheerleaders.

The NAMES Project Quilt, probably the most familiar of the organized symbols, has also generated its share of controversy. With panels designed and sewn by the loved ones of people who have died from AIDS, the entire quilt made its final public appearance on the Washington Mall in the summer of 1996. It's grown too big to be displayed in its entirety anymore.

But not everyone loves the quilt. My friend Fred, for instance, hated it. I only found this out on the day in 1992 when a few of us were sitting at Fred's bedside waiting for the mortuary attendants to come and take away his body. Someone asked about making a quilt square in his memory, and his priest told us how Fred had felt about the quilt: "We've created this portable graveyard as a place to put all our grief and all our anger about this disease," he quoted Fred as saying. "But we're entitled to that grief and that anger, and we need to do something with it to help bring this thing to an end."

Daniel Harris also objects to the quilt: "Placing the epidemic within the context of this mythically pure colonial history is part of the way we sanitize the victims of AIDS," he says, "enshrining them within this cluttered museum of tacky folklore so resonant with wholesome patriotic feelings and nostalgia for a simpler agrarian America." He admits that he may be judging people's grief, but adds, "I can only say that I personally don't want consumerism and all of that 'homemade' and 'old-fashioned' crap at my graveside."

But those are, by far, minority views. To most people who have seen the quilt, even if they do not have loved ones memorialized in one of its panels, the experience is one of the most intensely moving of their lives.

And who isn't familiar with the pink triangle and "Silence = Death" slogan of ACT UP? In keeping with its in-your-face attitude, ACT UP borrowed the inverted pink triangle that gays had been forced to wear in Nazi Germany and literally turned it upside down. It symbolizes both the disproportionate toll of AIDS in the gay community and that community's refusal to lie down and die.

Next Symbol, Please?

So where does that leave us? Symbols continue to be created, some of them growing out of those that already exist. The Hispanic AIDS Forum, for example, through its Dialogue for Life Project, is "Latinizing" the AIDS epidemic through the use of a modified version of the red ribbon. This new, specialized symbol places a bright yellow sun -- a strong symbol for life in Latin culture -- in the middle of the ribbon. The symbol is accompanied by a legend showing an equation: a picture of the ribbon + a picture of the sun = Lucha Latina Contra el SIDA -- Latin Fight Against AIDS.

Similar efforts are taking place in Africa and in the African-American community, where the ribbon is being modified through the use of traditional colors. The Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, working with leaders of the black faith community, has created an electronic stained-glass window featuring the red ribbon. It can be seen on the Internet at www.sph.emory.edu/bshe/imhr and is being offered to black churches for use on their AIDS-related materials.

I still have a red ribbon tied to the zipper pull of my purse. Like James, I guess I may be judged passé. But I do see some value in symbols, as long as we recognize them as symbols, not as substitutes for action and not as transient fashion accessories.

Laura Engle is Editor of Body Positive.

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10 HIV/AIDS Program - Department of Public Health - Seattle and King County Government
11 Regional Program on HIV/AIDS/STI - Division of Disease Prevention and Control - Pan American Health Organization
12 National AIDS Hotline - Technical Information and Communications Branch - Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Public Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (NAH )
13 HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Unit - Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group - National Institutes of Health - Public Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ACTU )
14 Latino Families HIV/AIDS Prevention Project - Institute for Hispanic Health - National Council of La Raza
15 African American HIV/AIDS Speakers' Bureau - Present Day Ministries of Jesus Christ International
16 HIV Early Intervention Services Program - Division of Community Based Programs - HIV/AIDS Bureau - Health Resources and Services Administration - Public Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
17 Civil-Military Alliance to Combat HIV and AIDS (CMA )
18 Canadian HIV/AIDS Information Centre - Canadian Public Health Association
19 Gary Lloyd HIV/AIDS Institute - School of Social Work - Tulane University
20 HIV/AIDS Policy Coordination and Program Division - Population and Public Health Branch - Health Canada - Center for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control - Government of Canada
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21 National HIV/AIDS Clinicians' Consultation Center - Department of Family and Community Medicine - San Francisco General Hospital - University of California, San Francisco (NCCC )
22 HIV/AIDS Dental Reimbursement Program - Division of Community Based Programs - Ryan White CARE Act - HIV/AIDS Bureau - Health Resources and Services Administration - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
23 Hispanic HIV/AIDS Program - American Red Cross
24 Pediatric HIV Working Group - HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch - National Cancer Institute - Public Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (PHWG )
25 HIV/AIDS Surveillance Data Base - Health Studies Branch - International Programs Center - Population Division - U.S. Bureau of the Census
26 Intramural AIDS and HIV Related Research Program - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - National Institutes of Health - Public Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (NIAID )
27 Hemophilia and AIDS/HIV Network for the Dissemination of Information - National Hemophilia Foundation (HANDI )
28 HIV/AIDS Bureau - Health Resources and Services Administration - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HAB )
29 HIV Psychosocial Support Team - HIV/AIDS Malignancy Branch - National Cancer Institute - National Institutes of Health - Public Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
30 Division of Community Based Programs - HIV/AIDS Bureau - Health Resources and Services Administration - Public Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DCBP )
31 Children's HIV and AIDS Model Program - Children's Hospital - Children's National Medical Center (Project CHAMP )
32 Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS )
33 HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases Program - Division of Surveillance and Disease Control - Bureau for Public Health - West Virginia State Government (STD Program )
34 HIV/AIDS Project - American Association for Health Education - American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
35 Division of Service Systems - HIV/AIDS Bureau - Health Resources and Services Administration - Public Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DSS )
36 Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC )
37 Critical Path AIDS Project - Philadelphia Fight
38 AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth and Families
39 HIV Clinical Investigation Core - Antiviral Research Center - Center for AIDS Research - University of California at San Diego
40 Office of HIV Psychiatry - American Psychiatric Association
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41 AIDS Coordination Project - American Bar Association
42 Lutheran AIDS Network - Lutheran Services in America (LANET )
43 National Association of People With AIDS (NAPWA )
44 National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors - Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (NASTAD )
45 Office on AIDS - Public Interest Directorate - American Psychological Association
46 AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts (AAC )
47 AIDS Action Now
48 Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF )
49 Jerusalem AIDS Project (JAIP )
50 AIDS Clinical Trials Unit - School of Medicine - University of Washington
51 Tzvi Aryeh AIDS Foundation
52 Mother, Child, and Adolescent HIV Program - National Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Unit - Medical Center-Hillcrest - School of Medicine - University of California, San Diego
53 Office of AIDS and Special Health Issues - Food and Drug Administration - Public Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OSHI )
54 American Foundation for AIDS Research (amFAR )
55 Mobilization Against AIDS (MAA )
56 AIDS Research Institute - University of California at San Francisco (ARI )
57 International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO )
58 AIDS Education and Global Information System (AEGiS )
59 Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD )
60 Mexicans United by Health Against AIDS (MUSSAC )
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61 AIDS Housing of Washington (AHW )
62 San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF )
63 Presbyterian AIDS Network - Presbyterian Church USA (PAN )
64 Harvard University Arts Committee on AIDS - Office for the Arts - Harvard University (HUACA )
65 AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta (ARCA )
66 Office of National AIDS Policy - Public Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ONAP )
67 National AIDS Fund (NAF )
68 Asia Pacific Council of AIDS Service Organizations - International Council on AIDS Service Organizations (APCASO )
69 National Organizations Responding to AIDS (NORA )
70 Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN )
71 AIDS Clinical Trials Unit - Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education - School of Medicine - University of California, Los Angeles
72 Business Responds to AIDS and Labor Responds to AIDS Programs - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (BRTA/LRTA )
73 AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA )
74 AIDS and Substance Abuse Speakers Network (ASASN )
75 AIDS Clinical Research Unit - Department of Medicine - University of Miami School of Medicine (ACRU )
76 Teen AIDS Hotline - Community Outreach Committee - American Red Cross Club of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Orange County Chapter - American Red Cross
77 Canadian AIDS Society (CAS )
78 AIDS Clinical Trials Unit - Stanford University Medical Center (ACTU )
79 AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT )
80 National AIDS Committee (NAC )
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81 Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
82 Children's AIDS Fund (CAF )
83 World AIDS Foundation - Pasteur Institute - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
84 National Catholic AIDS Network (NCAN )
85 National Council for the Prevention and Control of AIDS - Government of Mexico (CONASIDA )
86 Hyacinth AIDS Foundation
87 AIDS Housing Coalition Houston (AHCH )
88 National Episcopal AIDS Coalition (NEAC )
89 National Native American AIDS Prevention Center (NNAAPC )
90 AIDS Materials Project (AMP )
91 Seattle Treatment Education Project - Lifelong AIDS Alliance (STEP )
92 American Run for the End of AIDS, Inc. (AREA )
93 AIDS Treatment News
94 HIV InSite - Center for HIV Information - University of California San Francisco
95 National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC )
96 Australian National Council on AIDS, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases (ANCAHRD )
97 AIDS.ORG, Inc. - Community Partners
98 Community Provider AIDS Training Project - AIDS Education and Training Center - Department of Family and Community Medicine - University of California, San Francisco (CPAT )
99 Citizen Action Against AIDS (ACCSI )
100 NO/AIDS Task Force
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101 Forum for Collaborative HIV Research - Center for Health Services Research and Policy - Department of Prevention and Community Health - School of Public Health and Health Services - George Washington University
102 International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC )
103 National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project (NATAP )
104 Estate Project for Artists with AIDS - Alliance for the Arts
105 California AIDS Clearinghouse - L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center - Office of AIDS Programs and Policy - Department of Health Services - County of Los Angeles Government (CAC )
106 AIDS Action
107 Children With AIDS Project of America (CWA )
108 Mount Sinai AIDS Education Project - Faith, Hope and Love Ministries - Mount Sinai Baptist Church
109 AIDS Oral History Project - Dance Division - New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
110 U.S. Military HIV Research Program - Walter Reed Army Institute of Research - U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command (USMHRP )
111 HIV Prevention Project - National Network for Youth
112 National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (NBLCA )
113 National Association on HIV Over Fifty (NAHOF )
114 Center for Mental Health Research on AIDS - Division of Mental Disorders, Behavioral Research and AIDS - National Institute of Mental Health - National Institutes of Health - Public Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (CMHRA )
115 AIDS, Medicine and Miracles (AM and M )
116 Center for AIDS Prevention Studies - AIDS Research Institute - University of California, San Francisco (CAPS )
117 Teens Teaching AIDS Prevention - Good Samaritan Project (TEENS TAP )
118 Texas/Oklahoma AIDS Education and Training Center - Parkland Health and Hospital System - University of Texas Southwestern (TX/OK AETC )
119 National AIDS Council - Government of France (CNS )
120 AIDS Treatment Data Network (The Network )
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121 Deaf AIDS Support Services - University of California at San Francisco Center on Deafness (DASS )
122 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA )
123 Business and Labor Resource Service - Business and Labor Responds to AIDS - National Prevention Information Network - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Public Health Service - United States Department of Health and Human Services (BLRS )
124 Office of AIDS Research - Office of the Director - National Institutes of Health - Public Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OAR )
125 National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Public Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (NCHSTP )
126 Bastyr University AIDS Research Center - Bastyr University (BUARC )
127 Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases (WORLD )
128 AIDS Clinical Trials Unit - Holmes Hospital Division - University of Cincinnati Medical Center - University of Cincinnati (ACTU )
129 Pacific Islands AIDS and STD Prevention Project - Community Health Program - South Pacific Commission (PIASPP )
130 International Association for Comparative Research on Leukemia and Related Diseases - Harvard AIDS Institute - Harvard University (IACRLRD )
131 Bureau of HIV and STD Prevention - Department of State Health Services - State of Texas
132 Committee on Pediatric AIDS - Division of Child and Adolescent Health - American Academy of Pediatrics
133 Students Teaching AIDS to Students Program - AIDS Advocacy Network - American Medical Student Association (STATS )
134 HIV Vaccine Trials Network - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - National Institutes of Health - Public Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HVTN )
135 AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource - University of California, San Francisco (ACSR )
136 HIV Database Group - Los Alamos National Laboratory - University of California - U.S. Department of Energy
137 AIDS Health Project - University of California at San Francisco - San Francisco General Hospital (AHP )
138 East Bay AIDS Center - Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Sutter Health (EBAC )
139 Oral AIDS Center - Department of Stomatology - School of Dentistry - University of California, San Francisco (OAC )
140 Endocrinology of AIDS Program - Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease - National Institutes of Health - Public Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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141 AIDS Clinical Trials Center - Comprehensive Care Center - Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Vanderbilt University (ACTC )
142 AIDS Resource Foundation for Children, Inc. (ARFC )
143 AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP )
144 Laboratory of Viral Oncology and AIDS Research - Keck School of Medicine - University of Southern California
145 Center for AIDS Intervention Research - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine - Medical College of Wisconsin (CAIR )
146 Classical Action-Performing Arts Against AIDS - Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
147 HIV Treatment Hotline - Project Inform
148 National Agency for AIDS and Viral Hepatitis Research (ANRS )
149 TB/HIV Research Laboratory - Brown University
150 Pedro Zamora Public Policy Fellowship - AIDS Action
151 ACT UP New York - AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP/NY )
152 AIDSinfo - National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health - Public Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
153 Global AIDS Action Network - Tides Center (GAAN )
154 Hellenic Association for the Study and Control of AIDS
155 Mothers of AIDS Patients (MAP )
156 Navy Central HIV Services - Infectious Disease Special Immunology Services - National Naval Medical Center - U.S. Navy - U.S. Department of Defense
157 HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center - University of California, San Diego (HNRC )
158 Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA )
159 HIV Databases - Division of AIDS - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - National Institutes of Health - Public Health Service - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
160 Harvard AIDS Institute - Harvard University (HAI )
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HOW Long -Compassion Club Needed in North

This WAR on HIV must be won by education & awareness!
This WAR on HIV must be won by education & awareness!AS a person living with HIV & Hep-C,I have found it diffficult to get a steady supply of marijuana & with different levels of THC,you never really know what you are getting.AS Sudbury has the cancer centre for Northern Ont area,as well as other centres that deal with terminal illmess's,like access aids sudbury,so why don't we have a compassion club up here in the northern part of Ont.We are people with terriable illness's & if smokin alittle pot now & THEN will increase the quality of life,why aren't we taking advantage of this instead of trying to bury our heads in the sand & hoping the drug problem will go away.Well its not.Drugs & there use will be around for along time to come.As long as theres pain,illness& death & dealing with all these issues will be the hard part i think /.I just wish the police would help or be onside in this,maybe even donate some of their captured weed!fat chance of that happining though eh folks?BUT Y NOT?Y not give it top those of us that are dyeing a slow & painfull death?Y not make our lives more bearable?Y not ease some of our pain?Y not help us with our lack of eating?Y not help us with our nasea & vomiting?WEED needs to be easier to access for those of us that are sick & dyeing.Those of us that are in pain everyday of our lives.Those of us who cannot help being sick all the time.Pot injesting brings me momentary breaks from most of these symptoms.I cannot see why we havent made this a legal drug in canada.We now have scientific data to back us up !How long must we continue to live in pain & anguish?How long must we suffer the indignity of being treated as criminals & not as the sick & dyeing family members that we are?HOW LONG MUST we continue being denied somtheing that has been scientificly proven already to help us.HOW LONG? ps.Peace n Love NOT Wars n walls eh folks!

6500 Peoples DIE Everyday in Africa~!

This WAR on HIV must be won by education & awareness!

WE need a Compassion Club here in Sudbury !!

This WAR on HIV must be won by education & awareness!