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Today is National HIV Testing Awareness Day, and it’s also the start of the first-ever HIV Awareness Month, founded by Dawn Averitt Bridge, mother of two and chair of the board of The Well Project, who’s been living with HIV since 1988. Dawn—and The Well Project—is on a mission to change the U.S. perception of HIV and remind the American public that HIV is still a significant domestic problem—in part because of the myths surrounding HIV. More
Today is National HIV Testing Day, which was founded in 1995 to raise awareness for the historically misunderstood disease. Even today, myths and misinformation surround HIV and AIDS–myths that Gina Brown, a social worker and medical manager at the NO/AIDS Task Force in New Orleans works every day to erase. Brown knows a thing or two about how important HIV testing is–she herself tested positive in 1994 during a routine prenatal exam, and was kind enough to share her story with us. More
Free rapid HIV testing could be available at a Walgreens pharmacy near you, if all goes well with a pilot program being launched by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month. Over the next two years, they’ll offer the tests free of charge at pharmacies in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, as well as a clinic in Georgia, and gathering data to develop a nationwide program. Those who test positive for HIV will get a physician referral and care plan, but counseling isn’t in the cards, at least for now…but if the program helps the estimated 200,000 HIV-positive Americans who are undiagnosed get help, I’d say it’s probably work the compromise in emotional support. More
Your Loud Job — Is increasing your risk of heart disease. (via MSNBC)
Men Think Women Orgasm — Way more often than they actually do. (via ABC News)
Get Your Driver’s License — And an HIV test at the same time. (via CNN)
The Air We Breathe — Is contaminated with BPA. (via Environmental Health News) More
Patrick Sauer is funny. This is his third “Read It Like a Man” weekly column for Blisstree. Click to read his original intro, and first and second installments. Chapter 3: 80s Hair Metal I have this pet theory that the … More
