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Mercedes

I am alive :)

Well the surgery went well yesterday. The Dr. had a couple of problems one was that the incision he made at my belly button was too small to take out my very large and full of stone gall bladder. So he had to make the incision bigger than normal to remove the gall bladd with out cutting it up. In...

Demon Kitty

The Wisdom of Whores

I have got to read this book. I heard Terry Gross interviewing the author on "Fresh Air". She was fascinating. The things she talked about in the book seemed fascinating. This is the author's website and blog: http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/. Here is a very interesting site she featured. You look at...

Aput

Some uncomfortable facts

Data taken from the Malaysian AIDS Council, opinions are my own. Fact: 4741 new cases of HIV and AIDS reported came from men, 937 from women. Yet, the government insist that women be the ones to bring around condoms. Fact: Out of 5689 newly reported cases of HIV and AIDS, only 232 cases are from a...

Frances Harris

Same-Sex Relationships

The morality of our generation has decayed to the point of disgust. We’ve moved so close to accepting same-sex relationships, despite what God says about it. Same sex relationships are at the forefront of issues we are facing today; legalizing same-sex marriage, same-sex adoptions, etc. Do we have...

Casey

Shifting Gears to My Faith

So, I decided to commit this blog to something more meaningful to me and something that I am becoming more and more familiar with everyday. My Faith. I have been a Believer since I was approximately 10 years old. I saw how the Spirit moved in my family at that time. Prompting from what it seemed, my...

Luminous Heart

3:45

I've been tired and sleep-deprived in the past but this feels different. Raging headache squeezing the top of my head for the last 8 hours, eyelids heavy, and my mouth hanging half-open like a child with cerebral palsy. Each week in the ICU we have a different attending. The main difference between...

Luminous Heart

Not what I was expecting

I was on-call last night and had to place an arterial line. I got it in on the first try, but when I removed the needle/guidewire I accidentally stuck myself on the other hand. "Ow", I said instinctively. "You okay?" the nurse asked; "did you stick yourself?" "No, I'm okay," I mumbled. Not sure why...

Strive2Be

Quotation For May 1, 2008

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation." -- Arthur Ashe Tennis great who contracted HIV in 1988 during blood transfusions due to heart surgery. He died from complications from AIDS in 1993.

Richard

Dining Out For Life - San Diego

Dining Out for Life� San Diego Join us on Thursday, April 24, 2008, for Dining Out for Life�! Dining Out for Life� is an international fundraising event involving the generous participation of restaurants throughout the country. In exchange for pledging a minimum of 25% of their day�s food...

Myers 2008

Myers Receives Endorsement by Ryan White's Mother

Dr. Woody Myers today unveils a new campaign ad which will begin airing shortly featuring the personal endorsement of Jeanne White-Gender, the mother of Ryan White whose cause Dr. Myers championed in the mid to late 80s as Indiana Health Commissioner. Ryan White was prevented from attending his...

PUSH! FOR CHANGE

Personal Stories –Maternal Health - Zahara, Sudan

Zahara’s story illustrates the devastating effect of violence on women’s lives. Two years ago, when she was seven months pregnant with her third son, attackers in Darfur’s civil war raided her village and killed her husband. “I came here without anything, just my children,” she recalled,...

leave luck to heaven

Dining Out for Life - April 24

MAKE A DIFFERENCE - HELP STOP THE SPREAD OF HIV! The STOP AIDS Project and Wells Fargo invite you to the 7th Annual Dining Out for Life presented by La Crema, Abbott Virology, SF Weekly, and CBS 5/The CW Bay Area! Simply dine at one of our participating restaurants on Thursday, April 24, 2008 and 25...

fullbodychic

Migration a film by Mira Nair

Mira Nair's film, Migration, deals with AIDS as the great class leveler in society by following its transmission through interweaving stories linking urban and rural India. Shiney Ahuja plays a rural labourer who leaves his wife for work in Mumbai, where he gets mixed up in a dangerous triangle with...

Jim Phelan

Notable Quote: "HIV is a Gay Disease"

“Folks, with 70% of the people in this country living with HIV being gay or bi(sexual), we cannot deny that HIV is a gay disease. We have to own that and face up to that.” Matt Foreman (picture above), executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the nation’s oldest gay...

jeaninegabrielle

my new favourite lippie!

if there's one thing you have to buy this weekend, it's the new limited edition guarana lip butter from THE BODY SHOP! not only is this lippie fantastically yummy, proceeds of sales goes towards raising awareness of HIV and AIDS. i'm a fan of products that help a good cause. get yours today! it's...

hiv2007

HIV MYTHS AND CURE

HOW TO CURE HIV THROUGH HOLISTIC HIV TREATMENT-COMPLETE DETAILS HERE. LOGON TO HELP CURE HIV WEBSITE HIV MYTHS AND CURE- 1. I have just been diagnosed...I am going to die. This is the biggest myth of all. In fact people are living with HIV longer today than ever before. Meds, treatment programs, and...

Redzilla

We care a lot (about this vicious cycle we're stuck in)

Do you ever hear a song that reminds you so specifically of a time in your life that the hair on the back of your neck stands up? Happened to me last night, when through random chance this song came up on my playlist. I owned the vinyl new and at some point in the CD shift, I had the album burned to...