Pozitively Healthy Brochure
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A national coalition for people living with HIV/AIDS and their allies advocating for HIV positive communities Join today! Are you concerned how health care reform will affect you? Do you want to empower PLWHA to make pozitively healthy decisions? Would you like to become a better informed consumer? www.pozitivelyhealthy.org
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A national coalition for people living with HIV/AIDS and their allies advocating for HIV positive communities
Transcript of Pozitively Healthy Brochure
A National Coalition Advancing Health & Healthcare Accessfor HIV Positive Communities
A national coalition for people living with HIV/AIDS
and their allies advocating for HIV positive communities
an initiative of
A National Coalition Advancing Health & Healthcare Accessfor HIV Positive Communities
engaged!Get
A National Coalition Advancing Health & Healthcare Accessfor HIV Positive Communities
A National Coalition Advancing Health & Healthcare Accessfor HIV Positive Communities
A National Coalition Advancing Health & Healthcare Accessfor HIV Positive Communities
Join today!
Are you concerned
how health care reform will affect you?
Do you want to empower
PLWHA to make pozitively healthy
decisions?
Would you like to become a
better informed consumer?
Join
Connect
Engage
Facebook.com/PozitivelyHealthy
@HealthHIV
YouTube.com/HealthHIV
www.pozitivelyhealthy.org
E-mail or call Carmelita Whitfield: [email protected] / 202.507.4744 or Julio Fonseca: [email protected] / 202.507.4723
Amplify the voices of PLWHA around the country by joining the Pozitively Healthy Coalition in advocacy and educational efforts at www.pozitivelyhealthy.org.
Pozitively Healthy is a national advocacy coalition composed of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and their allies, including friends and family, as well as leaders and advocates in the HIV movement.
Pozitively Healthy advocates and educates so that the HIV community is and remains positively healthy.
The Coalition seeks to help advance equitable access to HIV competent healthcare and evidence-based treatment for the 1.1 million PLWHA in the United States by identifying and responding to HIV consumer-reported barriers.
Managed by HealthHIV, Pozitively Healthy is guided by a National Steering Committee (NSC).
Following are statements from Pozitively Healthy members on the importance of this coalition.
As a gay man born during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, I never would have guessed that nearly 30 years later that stigma, barriers to quality heath care, and undue suffering would still exist for so many members of my community. Heroic efforts and huge advancements in science have been made; however, we have seen little progress in addressing not only the stigma of being HIV-positive, but also the legal and emotional ramifica-tions of intolerance and misinformation. It is because of this uphill battle for PLWHA that I have chosen to advocate on behalf of myself, my friends, and my community by joining Pozitively Healthy. It is because of those men and women who fought during the early days that I’m able to now lend my voice in support for those will come after me.
I am a 53-year-old Black gay man who has been HIV-positive for the past 25 years. I am dedicated to work-ing with and advocating for youth, so that they may not have to endure the pain and hardships I have experienced. My involvement with Pozitively Healthy allows me to work with a diverse group of individuals on a personal, meaningful, and shared cause. I treasure the opportunity to be a positive influence and to help empower all HIV consumers.
My passion for helping others has led me to join a number of advocacy groups, as well as found Brothers Reaching Others, Inc. (BRO), which provides resources, educates clients, empowers individuals, develops skills, engages others, and disseminates information to disenfranchised and impoverished communities.
My involvement with Pozitively Healthy is rooted in understanding the history of the HIV movement, and my desire to diminish the emotional and social suffering PLWHA experience due to ignorance and judgment. I see stigma as one of the largest barriers to testing and treatment. We need to change the way HIV is understood in public discourse; HIV is a virus and a public health issue. My long-term vision for Pozitively Healthy is to one day look back at the victory over stigma and judgment and see an enlightened and accepting society that recognizes HIV as a medical issue as opposed to a moral one.
Bryce Romero, Consumer Marketing Assistant, Human Rights Campaign
Edward Jackson, CEO, Brothers Reaching Others, Anniston, Alabama
Ann Stuart Thacker, Executive Director, AIDSNET, Bethlehem, PA
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Pozitively Improving AccessPozitively Empowering
Pozitively Educating and Advocating
A National Coalition Advancing Health & Healthcare Accessfor HIV Positive Communities
A National Coalition Advancing Health & Healthcare Accessfor HIV Positive Communities
A National Coalition Advancing Health & Healthcare Accessfor HIV Positive Communities
EMPOWERMENT. EDUCATION. ADVOCACY. ACCESS.
Pozitively Healthy is a national advocacy coalition composed of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and their allies, including friends and family, as well as leaders and advocates in the HIV movement.
Pozitively Healthy advocates and educates so that the HIV community is and remains positively healthy.
The Coalition seeks to help advance equitable access to HIV competent healthcare and evidence-based treatment for the 1.1 million PLWHA in the United States by identifying and responding to HIV consumer-reported barriers.
Managed by HealthHIV, Pozitively Healthy is guided by a National Steering Committee (NSC).
Following are statements from Pozitively Healthy members on the importance of this coalition.
As a gay man born during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, I never would have guessed that nearly 30 years later that stigma, barriers to quality heath care, and undue suffering would still exist for so many members of my community. Heroic efforts and huge advancements in science have been made; however, we have seen little progress in addressing not only the stigma of being HIV-positive, but also the legal and emotional ramifica-tions of intolerance and misinformation. It is because of this uphill battle for PLWHA that I have chosen to advocate on behalf of myself, my friends, and my community by joining Pozitively Healthy. It is because of those men and women who fought during the early days that I’m able to now lend my voice in support for those will come after me.
I am a 53-year-old Black gay man who has been HIV-positive for the past 25 years. I am dedicated to work-ing with and advocating for youth, so that they may not have to endure the pain and hardships I have experienced. My involvement with Pozitively Healthy allows me to work with a diverse group of individuals on a personal, meaningful, and shared cause. I treasure the opportunity to be a positive influence and to help empower all HIV consumers.
My passion for helping others has led me to join a number of advocacy groups, as well as found Brothers Reaching Others, Inc. (BRO), which provides resources, educates clients, empowers individuals, develops skills, engages others, and disseminates information to disenfranchised and impoverished communities.
My involvement with Pozitively Healthy is rooted in understanding the history of the HIV movement, and my desire to diminish the emotional and social suffering PLWHA experience due to ignorance and judgment. I see stigma as one of the largest barriers to testing and treatment. We need to change the way HIV is understood in public discourse; HIV is a virus and a public health issue. My long-term vision for Pozitively Healthy is to one day look back at the victory over stigma and judgment and see an enlightened and accepting society that recognizes HIV as a medical issue as opposed to a moral one.
Bryce Romero, Consumer Marketing Assistant, Human Rights Campaign
Edward Jackson, CEO, Brothers Reaching Others, Anniston, Alabama
Ann Stuart Thacker, Executive Director, AIDSNET, Bethlehem, PA
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Pozitively Improving AccessPozitively Empowering
Pozitively Educating and Advocating
A National Coalition Advancing Health & Healthcare Accessfor HIV Positive Communities
A National Coalition Advancing Health & Healthcare Accessfor HIV Positive Communities
A National Coalition Advancing Health & Healthcare Accessfor HIV Positive Communities
EMPOWERMENT. EDUCATION. ADVOCACY. ACCESS.
A National Coalition Advancing Health & Healthcare Accessfor HIV Positive Communities
A national coalition for people living with HIV/AIDS
and their allies advocating for HIV positive communities
an initiative of
A National Coalition Advancing Health & Healthcare Accessfor HIV Positive Communities
engaged!Get
A National Coalition Advancing Health & Healthcare Accessfor HIV Positive Communities
A National Coalition Advancing Health & Healthcare Accessfor HIV Positive Communities
A National Coalition Advancing Health & Healthcare Accessfor HIV Positive Communities
Join today!
Are you concerned
how health care reform will affect you?
Do you want to empower
PLWHA to make pozitively healthy
decisions?
Would you like to become a
better informed consumer?
Join
Connect
Engage
Facebook.com/PozitivelyHealthy
@HealthHIV
YouTube.com/HealthHIV
www.pozitivelyhealthy.org
E-mail or call Carmelita Whitfield: [email protected] / 202.507.4744 or Julio Fonseca: [email protected] / 202.507.4723
Amplify the voices of PLWHA around the country by joining the Pozitively Healthy Coalition in advocacy and educational efforts at www.pozitivelyhealthy.org.
