Jonathan Van Ness Continues to Break Down the Stigma Around HIV

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Jonathan Van Ness Continues to Break Down the Stigma Around HIV
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, and introduces new medical studies to confirm that with the right medication, HIV positive people can have sex without transmitting the virus to their partner.

was coming out, we had an administration that fired the HIV/AIDS Advisory Council, in 2017, and has launched a systematic attack on Planned Parenthood, which is the place where I had access to testing. Had I not had Planned Parenthood, I wouldn’t have known that I was HIV positive. I didn’t have health insurance at the time and I needed access to testing.

Undetectable equals untransmittable, and that has been backed up by a lot of studies. Basically, when you’re HIV positive, you get access to this medication and you become undetectable and then you can live a gorgeous, normal life—fifty to seventy-five years. But the real reason I wanted to talk about it in the book is that when I was 25 and got this, I was not someone who had this platform. I did not have access, financially, that I have now.

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