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1 month ago | 
thebody.com | Barbara Jungwirth
Sex workers have a right to stay informed on how to best care for their health.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
thebody.com | Laura Lemoon
Despite recent legal wins, the U.S. still isn't doing enough to protect sex workers who are living with HIV.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
thebody.com | Alex George
We often hear about the struggles that trans women face. These include discrimination, structural violence, physical violence, and lost employment opportunities because of their gender expression. Such stress can literally kill a person, and for trans women with HIV, new research shows that this may be more common than previously known. Stress factors into a leading cause of death among trans women with HIV: cardiovascular disease (CVD).
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
thebody.com | Alex George
Last week, I learned that my longtime friend Joey had died. It feels inappropriate to call him simply a “friend” when, for most of our relationship, he served as my gay father. His sudden passing is a painful loss to his partner, family, and friends. It is also a clear reminder to our community of how important advance care planning is.
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May 16, 2024 | 
thebody.com | Alfredo Moreno
Like many other countries, Mexico has experienced its fair share of stigma against people living with HIV. As occurs in the U.S., the cause is religious bigotry, homophobia, or machismo―the perceived link between being born male and acting masculine enough―as well as a general lack of education regarding sexual health. Fortunately, there has been progress in recent years, thanks in no small part to Alaín Pinzón. 14 years ago, Pinzón learned that he was living with HIV.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
thebody.com | Andy Carstens
The endocrine system is a group of glands and organs that make hormones to help control many other systems in your body. For example, the endocrine system supports metabolism and reproduction, it can influence your sex drive, and it helps you respond to stress and injuries. “Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, it’s been noticed that various endocrine systems have been affected,” says Todd Brown, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
thebody.com | Ekemini Ekpo
In a 1982 interview, author, filmmaker, and activist Toni Cade Bambara stated, “As a cultural worker who belongs to an oppressed people, my job is to make revolution irresistible.” The power of her statement impressed upon readers that if the severity of injustice alone were enough to inspire radical change, it would be hard to imagine there being anything left to fix.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
thebody.com | Sara Hashemi
When Jeffery Pate was called in for a medical appointment in October 2010, his commander and first sergeant were already sitting in the room. They already knew that a public health nurse was about to come in and diagnose him with HIV. The experience felt violating. “Let me get the information I need, take care of the health part, and then have a meeting with them,” says Pate, 40, who joined the U.S. Army as a combat medic in 2002.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
thebody.com | Andy Carstens
Protease inhibitors were among the first drugs to help successfully control HIV in people living with the virus. Today, they’re prescribed less often because they tend to have more interactions with other drugs than other HIV medicines do. Protease inhibitor drugs are still used, especially when people have strains of HIV that develop drug resistance to other medications used in antiretroviral therapy (ART).
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
thebody.com | Alex George
For gay men who came up before the current era of social connectivity, finding community could be difficult. The reason? So many of us had to hide who we were in order to survive. Adding to the trauma of pretending to be something you weren’t in plain sight was being surrounded by horrible role models for how to be men: toxic heterosexuals and insecure queer men imitating the worst antics of their abusers.