February 7th is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD). The theme for 2023 — Together, we can make HIV Black History — is one that resonates strongly with me, both personally and as LGBTQ+ Program Manager at the nonprofit VNS Health. My colleagues and I work to achieve this goal…

There is no life without loss and therefore no life without grief. There is no life without vulnerability and therefore no life without fear.” — Miriam Greenspan, Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair Pride is about who you are, how you got here, and…

On Zero Discrimination Day, Every LGBTQ+ Community Member Needs to Count By Arthur Fitting, BSN, RN, LGBTQ+ Program Manager at Visiting Nurse Service of New York Today is Zero Discrimination Day, and this year’s theme is “Remove laws that harm, create laws that empower.” UNAIDS, the organization that launched Zero…

Five Tips for Maintaining Health and Wellness The first National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) was marked in 1999 as a grassroots-education effort to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS prevention, care, and treatment in communities of color. (CDC) As the world begins the third year of a global pandemic, it’s important to remember — and many…

If I could help to support people who are aging with HIV, one suggestion I’d share would be: Please remember, this is your body and your life. This may sound obvious; however, in this “new normal” we are living in with COVID, we’ve all been turned upside down and inside…

“We all have unconscious biases,” says the Mount Sinai Health System’s Barbara Warren, one of the leading voices in LGBTQ+ health equity and advocacy. “It’s protective, it’s primal.” What, then, can the nation’s health care system do to ensure that LGBTQ+ youth, adults and elders — historically, on the wrong…

Over the next few months, to mark important awareness days such as National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day, National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day and World AIDS Day, I will be interviewing key experts on the wide-ranging topic of aging with HIV/AIDS. We will be…

To mark National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day on September 18, Arthur Fitting, LGBT Program Director at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, is interviewing key experts on this wide-ranging topic, looking at what people with HIV, partners, caregivers, communities and the health care industry can do to help…

As a public health nurse, a gay man and a New Yorker, I have lived, cared and lost through…