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Craig Washington

Craig Washington: For LGBTQ elders of color, we are our own greatest legacy

We watched our bravest, our brightest fall and not get up again. The gap between what we hoped for and what we expected widened along with the obituary pages. We risked taking the conventional drugs if we could...

Dr. Quintin Robinson of Absolute Care

Dr. Quintin Robinson: How to end Atlanta’s HIV epidemic

HIV infection remains a serious public health issue in the state of Georgia. In 2015, Georgia was ranked the fifth-highest in the nation for new HIV diagnoses, after Florida, California, Texas and New York. The...

Positive Impact Health Centers celebrates 25 years of service

Anniversaries can be bittersweet moments for AIDS service organizations like Positive Impact Health Centers. With the celebration of their decades of service comes memories of those lost to the virus, and the r...

New HIV stats cause anxiety for Georgia’s LGBT community

In June 2014, a team of HIV/AIDS activists from New York teamed up with Atlanta activists to call out the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on their strategies and sense of urgency regarding the fight ...

Georgia LGBT groups score grants from Elton John AIDS Foundation

The Elton John AIDS Foundation announced on Wednesday more than $5.4 million in new grants to support organizations addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with several Georgia-based organizations among those to land...