HIV/AIDS

Profiles in Advocacy: AIDS Research Institute, working to end HIV

It occurred to me that it was time to write about the nonprofit for which I work: the AIDS Research Institute (ARI). Founded in 1997, the ARI is the Organized Research Unit (ORU) of UC San Diego that both links the many HIV/AIDS programs at the university together as well as provides a bridge between those programs and the larger community.

SATURDAY: The Glitteratti to raise money for Being Alive San Diego

SAN DIEGO -- The Glitteratti – a group of five philanthropic friends in San Diego who have joined hands to bring a little sparkle into the lives of those in need – invite community members to help make a difference in the lives of San Diegans living with HIV/AIDS at a fundraiser for Being Alive on Saturday, May 25.

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Mama’s Day breaks its fundraising record in 2013

SAN DIEGO – Mama’s Day 2013, the original food-tasting event in San Diego, this year raised a record-breaking $215,000 for Mama’s Kitchen, a non-profit organization which prepares and delivers hot, nutrition-specific meals free of charge to men, women and children affected by AIDS or cancer throughout San Diego County.

About 780 guests attended the food and wine event on the evening of Friday, May 10, at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla at the Aventine. The poolside affair featured an amazing lineup of 55 of San Diego’s top restaurants and executive chefs.

Being Alive accepting recyclables to raise money for services

SAN DIEGO -- Being Alive HIV/AIDS Services is "going green" with the collection of plastic bottles and cans to support the agency's Daniel’s Pantry program that feeds the clients every month.

More than 400 people use the Pantry each month for canned goods, rice, fresh fruits and vegetables and some frozen meat.

Donation bins for recyclables have been placed at local businesses or they can be dropped off at Being Alive during regular business hours, Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm.

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The sound of stigma

(Editor's note: This essay by Mark S. King — an AIDS advocate, an author and a blogger living with HIV since 1985 — is about why HIV stigma among gay men persists. It runs in the June issue of Poz and is now available online.)

Stigma is insidiously quiet. It is conjured in the mind, born of discomfort and fear, and then it is projected at “the other” among us. It judges them and isolates them. And it happens without a sound.

Congress urged to pass the REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act

CHICAGO -- Lambda Legal today voiced its support for HR 1843 the REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act which was introduced by Rep. Barbara Lee late Tuesday and would encourage states to reconsider laws and practices that unfairly target people with HIV for consensual sex and conduct that poses no real risk of HIV transmission.

"The more messages we can send to states to modernize or eliminate HIV criminalization laws the better—and that is exactly what this bill does," said Scott Schoettes, HIV Project director at Lambda Legal.

AIDS Memorial Grove accepting scholarship applications

(This post originally appeared HERE in Gay San Diego, a SDGLN media partner.)

SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco-based National AIDS Memorial Grove is now accepting scholarship applications for their Young Leaders Scholarship Program, which recognizes and encourages “the educational efforts of young people committed to active public service and leadership roles in the fight against HIV/AIDS,” a press release stated. Applications are being accepted through Sept. 30.

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First generation to discuss surviving AIDS crisis, healing the community

NEW YORK -- Hundreds of New Yorkers who lived during the worst devastation of the AIDS years, joined by leading educators and scientists, will come together in a free panel discussion and town-hall meeting to discuss the unique challenges they face as a group.

Titled "Is This My Beautiful Life? Perspectives From Survivors of the AIDS Generation," this first-ever community forum will take place on Thursday, May 9, from 7-9 pm, in Mason Hall at Baruch College, 17 Lexington Ave. (enter on 23rd Street). The space is wheelchair accessible.

Scientists on brink of HIV cure

(Editor's note: Since this article was published by The Telegraph, the Treatment Action Group has called the article "wildly irresponsible." To read the group's comments, click HERE.)

Danish scientists are expecting results that will show that “finding a mass-distributable and affordable cure to HIV is possible.”

Special Delivery to be honored by The Thursday Club

(This post originally appeared HERE in San Diego Uptown News.)

Mission Hills-based nonprofit Special Delivery San Diego will be the special guest at The Thursday Club’s gala fundraising event Friday, April 26.

The evening of entertainment and dinner along with a live auction will be held at the Club’s Point Loma location, 1224 Santa Barbara St.

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