Tag: AIDS

Lifetime Survivors of HIV

Lifetime Survivors of HIV

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In this episode, the Getting2U (G2U) crew get the chat with Angelica Colon aka Angie, who acquired HIV perinatally and now uses her lived experiences to advocate for others who had similar life experiences.

Angie is a member of the National HIV & Aging Network. If you’re interested in joining, click HERE.

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The Dawn of the Patient Revolution (with Gregg Gonsalves)

The Dawn of the Patient Revolution (with Gregg Gonsalves)

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In the 1980s, Gregg Gonsalves had a key role in one of the first examples of patient empowerment movement worldwide. When the information around HIV/AIDS was scarce, Gregg joined Act Up, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, spawning a career of patient advocacy in public health research and achieving breakthroughs in funding of research that helped improve the care of millions of people with HIV. In this conversation, we go over his motivations to start looking for answers when others weren’t.