Eurosurveillance | Volume 27, Issue 48

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I grew up during the AIDS epidemic, I watched how people were villainized just for the fact that they were LGBT+, and those who were HIV+ were kicked from communities that claimed to be "welcoming."
It's been over 2 decades since I lost an amazing and wonderful family friend to AIDS, and I still look back and smile at how he helped shape my path in the world today, he is why I went into advocacy and education, why I still fight to this day. #WorldAIDSDay #WorldAIDSDay2022

#WorldAIDSDay 
#WorldAIDSDay2022 

Día Mundial de lucha contra el #SIDA, desde @apramp siempre en la lucha al lado de l@s más vulnerables #contralatrata

I may be a day late, but here’s a sketch I did back in 2009 titled “Until There’s A Cure” Stop the stigma and eliminate the barriers to HIV testing, prevention, and care. #WorldAIDSDay #HIV #StopTheStigma #WorldAIDSDay2022

This is amazing. I published my World AIDS Day article on Medium, which is, in part, the story of my connection to Tod Morger, a man I knew in 1986.

Someone he went to school with happened to think of him earlier - googled Tod's name, and my story of Tod popped up! I only published it less than 18 hours ago. Goosebumps! That's a heck of an example of synchronicity!

#WorldAIDSDay #WorldAIDSDay2022 #synchronicity #spirituality

Here is the link, again.

https://medium.com/p/e602a47620ff

Memoir | World AIDS Day - Paul Katz - Medium

In the summer of 1986, I was 16. My high school district’s community theater was doing a production of A Chorus Line. Tod was cast as ‘Richie’. Tod was in his mid-to-late 20s, tall, lean, had curly…

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Waarom is prep nog niet gratis? #WorldAIDSDay2022
for those we lost, for the elders we never had, for those living with stigma and prejudice, for those without health insurance, for those who can't access #prep and #pep for those of genders and sexualities assumed to be high risk, and those overlooked
and to those who refuse to believe U=U because they prefer to hate
#worldaidsday #U=U #worldaidsday2022

Honoured to be invited to photograph today activists from #ACTUPLondon recreating a historic mass die-in on Trafalgar Square for #worldaidsday2022.

ACT UP London are calling for collective national action against government policies forcing the closure of #HIVAIDS education, prevention & support services & the event recalled a 1989 die-in by AIDS activists when Margaret Thatcher’s government was threatening to close an AIDS ward at Middlesex Hospital.

Image slideshow: https://www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0000VTom1Ofi_S0/I00005Tz_d4eirUs