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POZ is an award-winning print and online brand for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Offering unparalleled editorial excellence since 1994, POZ and poz.com are identified by readers as their most trusted sources of information about the disease.
GlaxoSmithKline launches the “Positive Action for Children” fund to support HIV-positive children in sub-Saharan Africa and reduce mother-to-child transmission. Read More
Inspiring Faith-Based HIV Prevention
Black and Muslim community leaders unite to promote testing awareness in Harlem. Read More
Cornelius Baker—Putting the Fight Against HIV Where It Belongs: Center Stage
In 1983, Cornelius Baker arrived in Washington, DC, for a theater internship at the Kennedy Center, where he witnessed firsthand the devastating impact of HIV. Read More
HIV-positive Americans are taking flight for better, cheaper facial fillers. Read More
A (Much) Faster Test for Hepatitis C
Finding out whether you have hepatitis C virus (HCV) is getting easier. Read More
Known more for dishing celebrity gossip than for giving out guidance, Wendy Williams has entertained audiences on her radio show for the past seven years. Read More
Taking Black AIDS Awareness Viral
Can the Web curb new HIV infections among African Americans? Read More
Brenda Lee Curry: Aging Gracefully With HIV
Brenda Lee Curry discovered that she was HIV positive at the age of 40. Soon after, she went through a divorce and then lost her 29-year-old son to liver disease. Now, at 63, Curry is beginning to enjoy her life and love herself. Inspired to encourage other women older than 50 to do the same, she founded a New York support group called Copasetic Women. Read More
The Global Fund Faces $5 Billion Funding Gap in 2010
Future challenges facing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria include raising $8 billion amid a worldwide recession as well as bolstering global health care systems and financing a better pay scale for health care workers in the developing world. Read More
Congress Gets a Wake-Up Call for U.S. HIV Prevention
Federal health officials and community leaders testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on September 16, stating that more needs to be done to confront the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic. Read More
ADAP Struggles to Adapt in Tough Economy
Annual report highlights AIDS drug assistance programs’ triumphs and weaknesses. Read More
Baring It All
Advocates shed their clothes and some light on HIV in the Southwest. Read More