I missed posting last year for the inspirational campaign by Positively Aware magazine know as #adaywithhiv. This year marks 40 years of living with

Forever grateful for the beautiful soul that is Bratwurst—to love, cherish and adore at any time of the day. His soul is my comfort,

Celebrating my 56th birthday and my sixth wedding anniversary with Ludbug (left). Also celebrating an undetectable viral load after many years of not maintaining

10:18am Peterborough Ontario Canada Just having a quick breath of fresh air before my next meeting! #adaywithhivA Day with HIV

At Diamond Dialysis, finishing up Monday morning life-sustaining dialysis treatment for Kalvin. Married 41 years, we’re a serodifferent couple living with HIV 18 years.

Life is a ball! Living my best life. Self-care. Self-love. Self-acceptance.

Still working and strong after 25 years with HIV+

Advocacy is serious business. It’s every day with HIV at the HIV is Not a Crime (HINAC 5) 2025 Academy. Knowing the law is

☕ Starting my day with coffee in my Camp Wendake mug. Did you know Camp Wendake is the only camp in Canada for people

Aquí en espera para hacerme varios analisis, mamografía y rayos x. Pero estamos vivo gracias a Dios y los médicamentos. Here we are waiting

Today is A Day with HIV. At Healing with Hope Corp., we stand in the fight against stigma, showing that life with HIV is

Living Positively Alive with HIV for 28 years. I am a 66-year-old man from Johannesburg South Africa, dedicated to making a difference, breaking the

Popped my morning pills and headed to my son’s friend’s birthday party—just another day with HIV.

In Chad Sain’s studio, I’m creating “The Last Hug,” a deeply personal photographic art project based on ICU nurse Michael Harbin’s recurring 1992 dream

I’m thriving, surviving and going to community college for IHSS—In-Home Support Services Certification. One pill and day at a time!

I focus on paying it forward, making a meaningful impact in the lives of others. HIV is my superpower, my source of vitality and

Starting my day with coffee and the closing session of the 2025 IAS Mentorship Programme. Grateful to learn, share and connect with U=U at

At 71 years of age, and after 23+ years of living with HIV, my once-avid advocacy has slowed due to my health. Fortunately, thanks

In 2021, ten years after my HIV diagnosis, I started my PhD journey. Now, I stand on the brink of defending my PhD where

Twenty years ago, life handed me lemons in the form of the chronic condition HIV. Look at me still making lemonade of those lemons

Celebrating 24 years of love, 11 years married. As a serodifferent couple, we show the world that U=U (undetectable = untransmittable) breaks stigma and

At my weekly physical therapy session. My mission? To unfreeze my right shoulder. The issue doesn’t prevent me from snuggling with my partner, or

31 years.

After 40 years living with HIV, I’m still kicking it and delivering a message. SILENCE=DEATH isn’t a relic from a bygone era. It is

As I reflect on #adaywithHIV, I focus on how today was not different than most Mondays—worked, hit the gym, wash, rinse, repeat. This ordinary

I’m rocking my Don’t Keep Quiet tee by Karen Stanley, repping Positively UK where I’m proud to be a trustee and peer mentor. I’d

When I was diagnosed with HIV in 2011, never did I see myself working for a state health department, managing HIV prevention and surveillance.

HAN Victory Party 2025! San Francisco SFAF HIV Advocacy Network celebrates its activities this year today.

As someone now living with chronic kidney disease (CKD), and in need of a transplant, I do dialysis every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. CKD

Eunice and Kalvin Marshall. Winding down our #daywithHIV eating an early dinner at Luby’s. We’re a serodifferent couple; 41 years married, 18 years living

I got tested for HIV in March 1989, in the nondescript New York City Health Department building behind me. Today, I “returned to the

During my 34 years of living with #HIV, it is taking time out in nature where I have been my happiest. Five-mile walk around

Bobby Avalos Orange County, CA 09/22/25 7:08pm “A Day With HIV”. Fierce and Fabulous, 50+ Strong and Healthy. Slaying today with Pride around my

I’ve been living with HIV since 2004. I’m the founder of Brave Soul Collective, an organization that raises awareness about HIV/AIDS and the issues

On this day with HIV, I called my senators and reps, demanding that they protect funding for HIV care and prevention, PEPFAR and global

It’s a typical day after work cooking a healthy meal. Age 52. 34 year survivor of HIV/AIDS. 28 years undetectable. Mother to a 19-year-old

Driven and focused on navigating those in need of strength and experience! Thirty-three years thriving with HIV! Destination: The San Antonio AIDS Foundation, fueled

Time to head home. Worked a full day in HIV education, taught an evening social work class, worked on my presentation for Positive Living

Living with HIV for 35 years, I am blessed to be a Ryan White case manager. I turn my own experiences into hope for

Stopping by my neighborhood bar for a drink to relax. Gotta love friends (mostly non-PLHIV) who don’t give AF that I am a PLWHIV.

Doing homework with my youngest child, the final one in the third generation of our family to take AZT. But for them it was

Where the pancakes are—London Bridge. 📍🥞🇬🇧 Just going about my Monday with my beautiful goddaughter, who LOVES pancakes. HIV doesn’t stop me living my

Being comfortable in one’s own skin without trying to impress others is one of the most valuable lessons a person can learn. Even with

In the office today, overlooking New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty, for my client company advancing women’s health—43 years and 19days into

We are in this fight! Standing strong doesn’t mean the worry isn’t there; it means you keep your ground despite the storm. Fear may

I’m co-founder of SIN (Strength in Numbers) Sacramento, a HIV/AIDS (poz) social support program of the Sacramento LGBT Community Center. We host a monthly

Starting the day with morning affirmations!

Triumph—Free to be me. Poz 30 years, I can check off my bucket list. I’m living transparent. My doctor told me, for my own

It’s been 36 years on my journey—lots of challenges but I survived. My motto: To make a difference and to advise you to never

Today, I live and thrive with HIV because of sustained funding that gives us the means to survive—and because of everyone who’s been there

After lunch discussing D.C.’s threats to HIV agencies, policy, and prevention and treatment services, I remind myself that we can thrive acting as one

We Ride. We Remember. We Honor. Today and every day. HIV isn’t a cause—it’s legacy, it’s love after diagnosis, it’s carrying our fallen into

Eleven years ago, when I was first diagnosed with advanced HIV, the doctors told me owning a cat might not be possible. Fast forward

H.I.V.T.E.A.M.: Heroic. Inspirational. Voices. Together. Everyone. Achieves. More. On my way to work at my gold standard AIDS area service provider/agency, the San Antonio

¿Sabías que mantener una carga viral indetectable es una de las mejores cosas que puedes hacer para mantenerte saludable si tienes VIH? Recuerda que

Continuing traditions…

Hope lives here! We wear our bracelets in memory of the friends and family we’ve lost to HIV/AIDS (and comorbidities, depression, suicide and overdoses)

HIV is an experience. We aren’t meant to let experiences define us. The purpose of experiences is to help reveal who we really are.

I’m sitting on the patio, taking in the beauty of the surroundings that my Higher Power has provided me. I’m thinking about the 40+

Enjoying Sunday morning coffee with my friend, neighbour and fellow long-term survivor, Martin.

After four days of celebrating my birthday with my nieces and nephews, I had my niece Chantelle take a pic of me at my

Enjoying time with friends because community matters whether you live with HIV or not, but especially if you live with HIV. Take care of

I’ve been reflecting a lot lately regarding the political climate and how my vote greatly impacts a collective vote that sways medical care and

I tested positive for HIV and received an AIDS diagnosis in 1988. In 2018, I was diagnosed with amyleoid leukemia and needed a stem

Listening to the radio and being creative have been two coping mechanisms since my diagnosis in 1991. Being visible for positive women and long-term

A day for everyone to see that meds work and we are survivors.

Según los CDC, el 70% de los nuevos diagnósticos de VIH para el 2022 en los Estados Unidos, Puerto Rico y otros territorios fueron

My day with HIV has been one of recuperating from surgery I had on Friday. Living with HIV/AIDS has been challenging these past 40+

I’m sipping on a chai tea on this beautiful fall Sunday!

I want to be real in this photo. Of everyone taking pictures looking good, I decided to take a picture that normalises living with

Preparing to be a deacon during worship at the historic Westminster UCC in Spokane. Sending prayers of gratitude to God for all of the

Grumpy Santa recording auditions for holiday ads; 42 years, 18 days of being a ho-ho-host for the virus.

The current status of “A Day With HIV” is a challenge within itself! It seems no matter what state you live in, there are

Servin’ coffee to my man Mike, but he would rather take my pic.

I’m balancing the Wonder Wheel— just as I balance my healthcare living with HIV 32 years.

Sundays are for Stonewall Sports Kickball, where building community is integral to my thriving as a long-term survivor of HIV.

Just me at the Boulder County AIDS Project House. BCAP is the most recent AIDS service organization (ASO) to support me in my successful

Another year with this man—James, on my left. Eighteen years together, our fifth wedding anniversary is today! Fifty-fifth Belly Button Birthday today! Twenty-five years

When I am feeling down or just simply need a hug, my best friend Akon is there to save the day!

Self-care can be something as simple as just getting out of the house and buying yourself a treat.

Today I volunteered to strike a stage at a theater that focuses on shows that explore social, political and cultural issues of our time.

My day with HIV was as I’d like every Sunday. Laundry and general tidying after sleeping-in a bit, alternating between music and news and

After a tough week I spent my day with HIV exercising radical rest. It’s so important for people of color thriving with HIV and

40 years+ in January 2025.

Walking through downtown Baltimore while attending a public health conference. Grateful for this extended life and 33 years of survival!

Taking the stage to raise money for the City of Fountain Sisters.

Just ran into Billy Porter during the Eagle NYC Sunday Beer Blast!

Bradford McIntyre, 72, HIV/AIDS advocate, living with HIV 40 years, at home… keepin’ on keepin on’. Founder PositivelyPositive.ca, designed to create HIV/AIDS awareness.

Ms. U=U of Detroit.

EMERGING and being Positively Rare.

Taken at around midday, on a London Overground train from Highbury and Islington. 📍🚉 Two things inspired this photo: Life feels to me to

Conference mode. Sometimes you need to lie down, take a break and a breather. Self care is very important. Remember, you are important and

Este es el mes de mi cumpleaños ya son 45. También es el cumpleaños número 16 años con diagnóstico positivo al VIH. Manteniendo tomandote

When I was diagnosed, I didn’t know how long I’d be able to continue working as a performing artist. As a storyteller, I use

This year, I just want to remind myself that I will do everything I can to stay healthy and adhere to my ARVs because

I’m a long-time, +43-year poz survivor, taking all my meds to stay alive another day!

Sunday morning on the Los Angeles Metro system. I’m on my way to work. I love the beautiful artwork in the Los Angeles Metro

We imagine a future free from the fear and stigma of HIV, where everyone can live their lives to the fullest. That day will

Diagnosed with HIV at age 11 means that most of my days have been days with HIV. At 49, I’m thankful for the advancements

As a person living with HIV, I strive to provide HIV awareness my minority and LGBTQIA+ community on topics of prevention and treatment, U=U,