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Date(s) - 06/05/22
All Day
June 5th is HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day. It is a day to spotlight the present day needs and issues of those living longest with HIV and AIDS.
Health departments, HIV services organizations and the community are focused on “ending AIDS” and “getting to zero.” Goals that are lofty but leave those living longest with HIV feeling isolated and left behind. Currently, 26% of all 1.3 million people living with HIV in the U.S. became positive before 1996, meaning they are longest-term survivors. Many others have been living with HIV for over 15 years.
Too many HIV Long Term Survivors are isolated, depressed, living in poverty and coping with AIDS Survivors Syndrome (ASS) which includes depression, anxiety, and a host of other social and mental factors impacting treatment adherence, quality of life, and well-being. Instead of being celebrated as the pioneers they are they are, they are frightened about the prospects aging with HIV, a virus that killed swaths of our loved ones and community.
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