NEW YORK -- As the annual World AIDS Day approaches on Dec. 1, Lambda Legal has found that discrimination and stigma against people living with HIV/AIDS is still rampant in the United States.

The organization has released an evidence-based report on the continuing stigma and discrimination faced by people living with HIV to policy makers and advocates.

I still have sadness about my own lapse of judgment in a moment of passion that rendered me HIV positive in August of 2007. Now (November 2010) in my third month of taking ARV’s (antiretroviral medications), the fact that I am HIV positive is more real than ever.

Had I had it to do all over again, I would hope to remain vigilant to the safer sex practices that had been part of my life for decades. With this said, I feel the most important work of my life is taking place now.

ENCINITAS -- Elizabeth Harris, owner of Elizabethan Desserts, has become known for her quality baking.

Creating decadent desserts for San Diegans for many years, Elizabethan Desserts uses only the highest quality of ingredients to create mouth watering pies, cakes and lidibits (just like pies and cakes, just a little bit smaller).

It all started from her childhood with good home cooking. Harris was inspired by her mother, who baked for her and all her elementary school friends.

“Mom inspired me with her homey sweet creations,” Harris said.

WASHINGTON -- Lambda Legal client Dr. Robert Franke, who was evicted from a Little Rock, Ark., assisted living facility because he has HIV, has been invited by the White House to participate this week in a conference on HIV and aging.

Dr. Franke, a retired educator and former minister, will attend the meeting with his daughter, Sara Bowling, and Lambda Legal HIV Project Staff Attorney Scott Schoettes. Schoettes will speak on a panel addressing issues likely to affect seniors living with HIV.