@plhivcaucus.bsky.social
Every Trans Life. Every HIV Story. The HIV Caucus Fights for You. This message guided us at AIDSWatch this year — and it guides us now:
Trans People Deserve More Than Remembrance!
#TransDayOfRemembrance
Trans People Deserve More Than Remembrance!
#TransDayOfRemembrance
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Every Trans Life. Every HIV Story. The HIV Caucus Fights for You. This message guided us at AIDSWatch this year — and it guides us now:
Trans People Deserve More Than Remembrance!
#TransDayOfRemembrance
Trans People Deserve More Than Remembrance!
#TransDayOfRemembrance
"When you eliminate health coverage, erase data, criminalize survival, and ban health care, you don't need a law to say trans people should not exist ― the systems themselves make our survival impossible."
-Michael Elizabeth
Co-Chair; US PLHIV Caucus
We will never leave our trans siblings behind.
-Michael Elizabeth
Co-Chair; US PLHIV Caucus
We will never leave our trans siblings behind.
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"When you eliminate health coverage, erase data, criminalize survival, and ban health care, you don't need a law to say trans people should not exist ― the systems themselves make our survival impossible."
-Michael Elizabeth
Co-Chair; US PLHIV Caucus
We will never leave our trans siblings behind.
-Michael Elizabeth
Co-Chair; US PLHIV Caucus
We will never leave our trans siblings behind.
The current administration has announced that it can use diabetes, obesity, and cancer to reject visa applicants. The HIV Caucus remembers when the U.S. had the same policy towards people living with HIV and we won't stand for it.
Read the full newsletter here:
mailchi.mp/0886a224006d...
Read the full newsletter here:
mailchi.mp/0886a224006d...
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The current administration has announced that it can use diabetes, obesity, and cancer to reject visa applicants. The HIV Caucus remembers when the U.S. had the same policy towards people living with HIV and we won't stand for it.
Read the full newsletter here:
mailchi.mp/0886a224006d...
Read the full newsletter here:
mailchi.mp/0886a224006d...
#HappyVetetansDay to our advocates who are fighting the war against #HIV & #AIDS as well as to our service people who are living with HIV.
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
#HappyVetetansDay to our advocates who are fighting the war against #HIV & #AIDS as well as to our service people who are living with HIV.
This week, our newsletter highlights:
Treatment Action Group (TAG), Unity Arc Advocacy, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, CHLP, PWN-USA, Equality Federation, IDPH, & AIDS United.
As our headline says: We Work With Each Other. Not for Kings.
Click here for the newsletter: mailchi.mp/bae30f4bd047...
Treatment Action Group (TAG), Unity Arc Advocacy, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, CHLP, PWN-USA, Equality Federation, IDPH, & AIDS United.
As our headline says: We Work With Each Other. Not for Kings.
Click here for the newsletter: mailchi.mp/bae30f4bd047...
October 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This week, our newsletter highlights:
Treatment Action Group (TAG), Unity Arc Advocacy, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, CHLP, PWN-USA, Equality Federation, IDPH, & AIDS United.
As our headline says: We Work With Each Other. Not for Kings.
Click here for the newsletter: mailchi.mp/bae30f4bd047...
Treatment Action Group (TAG), Unity Arc Advocacy, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, CHLP, PWN-USA, Equality Federation, IDPH, & AIDS United.
As our headline says: We Work With Each Other. Not for Kings.
Click here for the newsletter: mailchi.mp/bae30f4bd047...
We celebrate National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day by honoring our Latinx siblings in this fight to contain HIV/AIDS and refusing to leave anyone behind.
Please join us in elevating the needs of our Latinx family. For more information, please visit Latino Commission on AIDS and LatinX Plus.
Please join us in elevating the needs of our Latinx family. For more information, please visit Latino Commission on AIDS and LatinX Plus.
October 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We celebrate National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day by honoring our Latinx siblings in this fight to contain HIV/AIDS and refusing to leave anyone behind.
Please join us in elevating the needs of our Latinx family. For more information, please visit Latino Commission on AIDS and LatinX Plus.
Please join us in elevating the needs of our Latinx family. For more information, please visit Latino Commission on AIDS and LatinX Plus.
HIV funding is lifesaving. It’s how we stopped the AIDS Crisis.
Half of Congress is trying to eliminate HIV-prevention programs. If we don’t stop them now, they’ll be targeting HIV treatment next.
Tell Congress to fully fund HIV-prevention & treatment services.
SaveHIVFunding.org #SaveHIVFunding
Half of Congress is trying to eliminate HIV-prevention programs. If we don’t stop them now, they’ll be targeting HIV treatment next.
Tell Congress to fully fund HIV-prevention & treatment services.
SaveHIVFunding.org #SaveHIVFunding
October 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
HIV funding is lifesaving. It’s how we stopped the AIDS Crisis.
Half of Congress is trying to eliminate HIV-prevention programs. If we don’t stop them now, they’ll be targeting HIV treatment next.
Tell Congress to fully fund HIV-prevention & treatment services.
SaveHIVFunding.org #SaveHIVFunding
Half of Congress is trying to eliminate HIV-prevention programs. If we don’t stop them now, they’ll be targeting HIV treatment next.
Tell Congress to fully fund HIV-prevention & treatment services.
SaveHIVFunding.org #SaveHIVFunding
TOMORROW is the start of Long COVID Justice's new support group for people living with HIV and other complex conditions. It all starts at 3 PM (EST) on Zoom with Gabriel San Emeterio, LMSW, as the facilitator!
Register at:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#HIVLongTermSurvivors #LongCOVID #PLHIV
Register at:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#HIVLongTermSurvivors #LongCOVID #PLHIV
October 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
TOMORROW is the start of Long COVID Justice's new support group for people living with HIV and other complex conditions. It all starts at 3 PM (EST) on Zoom with Gabriel San Emeterio, LMSW, as the facilitator!
Register at:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#HIVLongTermSurvivors #LongCOVID #PLHIV
Register at:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#HIVLongTermSurvivors #LongCOVID #PLHIV
Evany Turk reminds us to ensure that rehabilitation & assisted living facilities are doing right by older people living with HIV.
Sometimes facilities hold onto our community members even when they're ready to go because they are making money off of their benefits.
Sometimes facilities hold onto our community members even when they're ready to go because they are making money off of their benefits.
September 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Evany Turk reminds us to ensure that rehabilitation & assisted living facilities are doing right by older people living with HIV.
Sometimes facilities hold onto our community members even when they're ready to go because they are making money off of their benefits.
Sometimes facilities hold onto our community members even when they're ready to go because they are making money off of their benefits.
Tomorrow is National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. For people living w #HIV, these awareness days are an opportunity to tell folks to do their part to protect themselves from the virus -- just as we saved millions of people from HIV with our advocacy when no one else was coming to save us.
September 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Tomorrow is National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. For people living w #HIV, these awareness days are an opportunity to tell folks to do their part to protect themselves from the virus -- just as we saved millions of people from HIV with our advocacy when no one else was coming to save us.
People Living With HIV Need:
Folks who love people living with HIV enough NOT to believe every bad thing they hear about us.
We’re people first; just like you.
Adapted by @juanmichaelii.bsky.social from the words of Ivory Toldson, PhD.
#HIV #Liberation #NoStigma
Folks who love people living with HIV enough NOT to believe every bad thing they hear about us.
We’re people first; just like you.
Adapted by @juanmichaelii.bsky.social from the words of Ivory Toldson, PhD.
#HIV #Liberation #NoStigma
September 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
People Living With HIV Need:
Folks who love people living with HIV enough NOT to believe every bad thing they hear about us.
We’re people first; just like you.
Adapted by @juanmichaelii.bsky.social from the words of Ivory Toldson, PhD.
#HIV #Liberation #NoStigma
Folks who love people living with HIV enough NOT to believe every bad thing they hear about us.
We’re people first; just like you.
Adapted by @juanmichaelii.bsky.social from the words of Ivory Toldson, PhD.
#HIV #Liberation #NoStigma
Trump & Republican legislators are still trying to cut #HIV funding from the 2026 budget. If we stop them now, they won't get away with it!
The Reunion Project has come up with this list of actions you can take to fight back & help #SaveHIVFunding.
Silence Equals Death. Let's make some noise!
The Reunion Project has come up with this list of actions you can take to fight back & help #SaveHIVFunding.
Silence Equals Death. Let's make some noise!
September 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Trump & Republican legislators are still trying to cut #HIV funding from the 2026 budget. If we stop them now, they won't get away with it!
The Reunion Project has come up with this list of actions you can take to fight back & help #SaveHIVFunding.
Silence Equals Death. Let's make some noise!
The Reunion Project has come up with this list of actions you can take to fight back & help #SaveHIVFunding.
Silence Equals Death. Let's make some noise!
The HIV Caucus is for EVERYONE who believes in empowering people living with HIV & containing the epidemic. Even if you're not living with HIV.
People who aren't living with HIV can join as supporters by filling out this membership form:
www.hivcaucus.org/form-languag...
People who aren't living with HIV can join as supporters by filling out this membership form:
www.hivcaucus.org/form-languag...
September 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The HIV Caucus is for EVERYONE who believes in empowering people living with HIV & containing the epidemic. Even if you're not living with HIV.
People who aren't living with HIV can join as supporters by filling out this membership form:
www.hivcaucus.org/form-languag...
People who aren't living with HIV can join as supporters by filling out this membership form:
www.hivcaucus.org/form-languag...
1. Using your experience to help people re-frame their language sometimes helps get them through the door.
2. You may not be the proper messenger; try pairing them w someone from the community who they can understand.
3. If no one around you is available, extend your search.
2. You may not be the proper messenger; try pairing them w someone from the community who they can understand.
3. If no one around you is available, extend your search.
September 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
1. Using your experience to help people re-frame their language sometimes helps get them through the door.
2. You may not be the proper messenger; try pairing them w someone from the community who they can understand.
3. If no one around you is available, extend your search.
2. You may not be the proper messenger; try pairing them w someone from the community who they can understand.
3. If no one around you is available, extend your search.
We talk about race a lot here. But when we talk about "whiteness," we're not necessarily talking about people ― we're talking about a system. And if that bothers you, ask yourself why. I'm not apologizing about it, I'm just telling you what it is and why.
Incredible Tori Cooper speaking on race.
Incredible Tori Cooper speaking on race.
September 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
We talk about race a lot here. But when we talk about "whiteness," we're not necessarily talking about people ― we're talking about a system. And if that bothers you, ask yourself why. I'm not apologizing about it, I'm just telling you what it is and why.
Incredible Tori Cooper speaking on race.
Incredible Tori Cooper speaking on race.
When working with younger trans-women, don't center everything around a panel. Try being in community, hanging out w them. Showing up in your uniform makes it clear that you're in 1 place & you're in another.
"It can't be just be, 'How are you doing? Here's some PrEP.' And leave."
"It can't be just be, 'How are you doing? Here's some PrEP.' And leave."
September 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
When working with younger trans-women, don't center everything around a panel. Try being in community, hanging out w them. Showing up in your uniform makes it clear that you're in 1 place & you're in another.
"It can't be just be, 'How are you doing? Here's some PrEP.' And leave."
"It can't be just be, 'How are you doing? Here's some PrEP.' And leave."
Older people with HIV and older LGBTQ+ people are more likely to need to live in assisted living facilities because of stigma, lack of children, or no family support. It's why a Long-term Care Bill of Rights is essential.
www.sageusa.org/resource/lgb...
www.sageusa.org/resource/lgb...
September 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Older people with HIV and older LGBTQ+ people are more likely to need to live in assisted living facilities because of stigma, lack of children, or no family support. It's why a Long-term Care Bill of Rights is essential.
www.sageusa.org/resource/lgb...
www.sageusa.org/resource/lgb...
Everyone needs accommodations, whether they are disabled or not.
But when people with disabilities ask for them, they are made to seem like they are lazy, unreasonable, or too expensive to engage.
#USCHA2025
But when people with disabilities ask for them, they are made to seem like they are lazy, unreasonable, or too expensive to engage.
#USCHA2025
September 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Everyone needs accommodations, whether they are disabled or not.
But when people with disabilities ask for them, they are made to seem like they are lazy, unreasonable, or too expensive to engage.
#USCHA2025
But when people with disabilities ask for them, they are made to seem like they are lazy, unreasonable, or too expensive to engage.
#USCHA2025
People w HIV are 2-4 times more likely to develop long-COVID, which is repeatedly dismissed as a symptom of aging.
Compared to their counterparts, people w HIV & other disabilities report:
33% higher rates of HIV stigma
22.8% higher rates of depression
19.6% higher rates of anxiety
Compared to their counterparts, people w HIV & other disabilities report:
33% higher rates of HIV stigma
22.8% higher rates of depression
19.6% higher rates of anxiety
September 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
People w HIV are 2-4 times more likely to develop long-COVID, which is repeatedly dismissed as a symptom of aging.
Compared to their counterparts, people w HIV & other disabilities report:
33% higher rates of HIV stigma
22.8% higher rates of depression
19.6% higher rates of anxiety
Compared to their counterparts, people w HIV & other disabilities report:
33% higher rates of HIV stigma
22.8% higher rates of depression
19.6% higher rates of anxiety
Prevalence of chronic pain among people w HIV is 40-80%. Chronic pain is exhausting.
Chronic fatigue is 1 of the most common features of HIV.
"When they tell you that it's unexplainable fatigue, that forecloses any possibility that they will find a solution or invest in one."
-Gabriel San Emeterio
Chronic fatigue is 1 of the most common features of HIV.
"When they tell you that it's unexplainable fatigue, that forecloses any possibility that they will find a solution or invest in one."
-Gabriel San Emeterio
September 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Prevalence of chronic pain among people w HIV is 40-80%. Chronic pain is exhausting.
Chronic fatigue is 1 of the most common features of HIV.
"When they tell you that it's unexplainable fatigue, that forecloses any possibility that they will find a solution or invest in one."
-Gabriel San Emeterio
Chronic fatigue is 1 of the most common features of HIV.
"When they tell you that it's unexplainable fatigue, that forecloses any possibility that they will find a solution or invest in one."
-Gabriel San Emeterio
Gabriel San Emeterio brilliantly breaks down the able-bodied to nondisabled binary around disability.
#USCHA2025
#USCHA2025
September 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Gabriel San Emeterio brilliantly breaks down the able-bodied to nondisabled binary around disability.
#USCHA2025
#USCHA2025
These politicians will not tell us that our lives are disposable. We are not fighting just to save our lives ― We are fighting for the future.
-Marnina Miller
@pwnusa.bsky.social
#SaveHIVFunding
Photo: Courtesy Getty Images for Save HIV Funding campaign
-Marnina Miller
@pwnusa.bsky.social
#SaveHIVFunding
Photo: Courtesy Getty Images for Save HIV Funding campaign
September 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
These politicians will not tell us that our lives are disposable. We are not fighting just to save our lives ― We are fighting for the future.
-Marnina Miller
@pwnusa.bsky.social
#SaveHIVFunding
Photo: Courtesy Getty Images for Save HIV Funding campaign
-Marnina Miller
@pwnusa.bsky.social
#SaveHIVFunding
Photo: Courtesy Getty Images for Save HIV Funding campaign
As a person who has been living with HIV for over 20 years, I appreciate every one of you for being here. Are people living with #HIV weak? No! That's why we're here.
-Venton Jones
#SaveHIVFunding
Photo: Courtesy Getty Images for Save HIV Funding campaign
-Venton Jones
#SaveHIVFunding
Photo: Courtesy Getty Images for Save HIV Funding campaign
September 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
As a person who has been living with HIV for over 20 years, I appreciate every one of you for being here. Are people living with #HIV weak? No! That's why we're here.
-Venton Jones
#SaveHIVFunding
Photo: Courtesy Getty Images for Save HIV Funding campaign
-Venton Jones
#SaveHIVFunding
Photo: Courtesy Getty Images for Save HIV Funding campaign
We demand healthcare for all ― Trangender or cis, inside or out of prisons, living with or vulnerable to HIV.
Jasmine Tasaki – Executive Director, Black and Pink & WeCare Tennessee
#SaveHIVFunding
Photo: Courtesy Getty Images for Save HIV Funding campaign
Jasmine Tasaki – Executive Director, Black and Pink & WeCare Tennessee
#SaveHIVFunding
Photo: Courtesy Getty Images for Save HIV Funding campaign
September 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
We demand healthcare for all ― Trangender or cis, inside or out of prisons, living with or vulnerable to HIV.
Jasmine Tasaki – Executive Director, Black and Pink & WeCare Tennessee
#SaveHIVFunding
Photo: Courtesy Getty Images for Save HIV Funding campaign
Jasmine Tasaki – Executive Director, Black and Pink & WeCare Tennessee
#SaveHIVFunding
Photo: Courtesy Getty Images for Save HIV Funding campaign
This quilt isn't in memoriam. It's a warning about what will happen if these cuts come to pass. Cutting HIV funding and Medicaid will kill.
-Javier Muñoz
#savehivfunding
Photo: Courtesy Getty Images for Save HIV Funding campaign
-Javier Muñoz
#savehivfunding
Photo: Courtesy Getty Images for Save HIV Funding campaign
September 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This quilt isn't in memoriam. It's a warning about what will happen if these cuts come to pass. Cutting HIV funding and Medicaid will kill.
-Javier Muñoz
#savehivfunding
Photo: Courtesy Getty Images for Save HIV Funding campaign
-Javier Muñoz
#savehivfunding
Photo: Courtesy Getty Images for Save HIV Funding campaign