The Michael W Connett LIVING Trust
"I used to be afraid of dying, I'm not anymore. I'm more afraid of what happens to the people who live..." from "And The Band Played On
"Correct Principles are LIGHTHOUSES..."
They will not move, They are not odds, You cannot break them, We can only Break Ourselves against them....These are self-evident principles, perhaps not yet habits. We already know them, but what is Common Sense is not Common Practice." The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
"On Coming Home"
"Home is not a place; it is an attitude. It is an attitude which depends on how much we are able to feel at home with ourselves as well as with others. Home is something which happens to a person; homecoming has less to do with geography than it has to do with a sense of personal integrity or inner wholeness.
The most important of all endeavors in life is to come home. The most terrifying of fears is loneliness. It means that one has become a stranger to himself, and consequently, to others. To be lonely is to feel fear, to be forever unsettled, never at rest, in need of more reassurance than life can give.
Someone truly loves us when he brings us home; when he makes us comfortable with ourselves, when he takes from us the strangeness we feel at being who we are. We are loved when we no longer are frightened with ourselves."
"Dawn Without Darkness" - Anthony Padavano
The Mission of the Michael W. Connett LIVING Trust is
"To use the rest of my life the best I can so that the people and places through which my journey leads me will remain a little bit better for me having passed their way..."
Caring for the “Quality of Life” issues of the infected & affected who are now living longer and preventing further infections, as seen thru the eyes of a long term survivor…
The purpose for which The South Bank HIVe is therefore organized is the CommUNITY-Based Funding, Advocacy and Provision of HIVe/Aids Prevention, Education and Social Support Services.
ONAP Commissions Institute of Medicine to Examine Data Gaps in Monitoring Access and Quality of HIV Care Posted by Jeffrey Crowley and Gregorio Millett on October 04, 2010 at 10:20 AM EDT This time last year, the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) announced a contract with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to conduct a series of policy analyses to help inform the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. The first of three reports from this project was released two weeks ago and presents important information for policymakers and members of the public working to expand HIV testing and screening in order to identify and link to care all people living with HIV (http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2010/HIV-Screening-and-Access-to-Care-Exploring-Barriers-and-Facilitators-to-Expanded-HIV-Testing.aspx ).
--- In SouthBankHIVe@yahoogroups.com, "mwcltonline" <sobankqueenbee@...> wrote:
> My vote is my voice and I refuse to be silenced!
> This November, I pledge to vote to show that people Living with HIV/AIDS
> are unwilling to accept the stigma, discrimination, indifference and
> invisibility any longer. I stand with the progressive community in
> support of equality for all!Elections are often determined by slim
> margins, but I know I can make a difference. I refuse to be marginalized
> and pledge to get out and vote.
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FOLLOW THE GIVE A DAMN CAMPAIGN
You have already taken the first step to follow the Give a Damn Campaign by joining us on wegiveadamn.org.
Now, take it one step further and stay informed and involved by following us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER and YOUTUBE!
HIV/AIDS Awareness Days www.aids.gov
Michael Connett via South Bank HIVe CommUNITY-Based Network:
Aging with HIV/AIDS aids.gov Index Page
At the start of the epidemic, people who were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS could expect to live only 1-2 years after that diagnosis. But new medications and treatments have changed that. Life expectancy for people with HIV disease has increased dramatically—which means that they now have to face the challenges of aging with HIV/AIDS.
AIDS grant stirs controversy Posted by Max Brantley on Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:39 AM
So far, Jason Tolbert is the vanguard, but I suspect the Republican Party will get wider coverage before long of an HIV/AIDS prevention grant that drew attention in a legislative committee last week.
It's likely to be a pity how this turns out. The issue will become controversial for the wrong reason — because it touches on sex and gay people — and not simply for what appear to be legitimate questions about how the program was administered.
Public Disclosure of HIV Status: Public Safety or Breach of Confidentiality?
Pros: By releasing the man's name, photo, and HIV status, theoretically women and men he may encounter in the future will be aware of his HIV status and could take the proper precautions in the event of any sexual contact.
Cons: Disclosing this man's HIV status, name and photo jeopardizes every HIV positive person's right to confidentiality. Where will the line be drawn? When will it be judged to be ok to violate someone's right to confidentiality? Eventually, the confidentiality of all medical records, HIV positive and nagative alike could be in jeopardy.
They will not move, They are not odds, You cannot break them, We can only Break Ourselves against them....These are self-evident principles, perhaps not yet habits. We already know them, but what is Common Sense is not Common Practice." The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
"On Coming Home"
"Home is not a place; it is an attitude. It is an attitude which depends on how much we are able to feel at home with ourselves as well as with others. Home is something which happens to a person; homecoming has less to do with geography than it has to do with a sense of personal integrity or inner wholeness.
The most important of all endeavors in life is to come home. The most terrifying of fears is loneliness. It means that one has become a stranger to himself, and consequently, to others. To be lonely is to feel fear, to be forever unsettled, never at rest, in need of more reassurance than life can give.
Someone truly loves us when he brings us home; when he makes us comfortable with ourselves, when he takes from us the strangeness we feel at being who we are. We are loved when we no longer are frightened with ourselves."
"Dawn Without Darkness" - Anthony Padavano
The Mission of the Michael W. Connett LIVING Trust is
"To use the rest of my life the best I can so that the people and places through which my journey leads me will remain a little bit better for me having passed their way..."
Caring for the “Quality of Life” issues of the infected & affected who are now living longer and preventing further infections, as seen thru the eyes of a long term survivor…
The purpose for which The South Bank HIVe is therefore organized is the CommUNITY-Based Funding, Advocacy and Provision of HIVe/Aids Prevention, Education and Social Support Services.
Come OUT, Stand Up! – The AESOP Initiative
• Advocacy:
• Education:
• Support:
• OutReach:
• Prevention & Pride
"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth." -Aesop
• Advocacy:
• Education:
• Support:
• OutReach:
• Prevention & Pride
"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth." -Aesop
Wednesday ROCKtober 13, 2010
As
AIDS Quilt founder Cleve Jones said in 2001; “Our hearts may be
filled, but there are only two emotions worth expressing at this
perilous time: GRIEF and RAGE. Grief for the millions who have died and
are dying. Rage at the indifference, greed, and stupidity that permit
this grotesque calamity to continue."
--- In SouthBankHIVe, I wrote:
Post Primary Election, my Case Manager asked me what I was going to do now to focus my time, energy & resources on!? I replied that I wasn't exactly sure but that it would be true to my personal Mission Statement: "To use the rest of my life the best I can so that the people and places through which my journey leads me will remain a little bit better for me having passed their way..." as well as the beneficiaries of my LIVING Trust. I've felt for a long time that my purpose is to try to make things better for those who come after me, starting with Coming OUT the first time in 1978 when my parents discovered I was gay and my mom said I couldn't live in her house being that way followed with my 2nd Coming OUT in 1991 when I tested HIV+. In both cases, the obstacles to my > living the best Life I could was Prejudice, Stigma, Discrimination and FEAR! Fear of what I may lose if I lived my life openly and authentically... Love & Support by friends and family, a job, housing, etc. However, I came to realize that "A Life Lived in FEAR, is a Life HALF-Lived" so I decided to take that Risk of Living and use my experience to learn and then share it so others would be able to navigate their own Journey with my trip-tic...
> September 25, 2010 12:08
>
> New Survey Finds Less Than a Year After CDC Announced the U.S. HIV Epidemic is Much Larger Than Previously Thought, Public's Sense of > Urgency is Down, Even Among Some Higher Risk Groups
<http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/posr042809pkg.cfm>
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation From press release
Less than a year after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recalculated the size of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and announced that there were 40 percent more new HIV infections each year than previously believed, a new survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that Americans' sense of urgency about HIV/AIDS as a national health problem has fallen dramatically and their concern about HIV as a personal risk has also declined, even among some groups at higher risk.
Key findings of the survey include:
* The share of Americans naming HIV/AIDS as the most urgent health problem facing the nation dropped precipitously from 44 percent in 1995 > to 17 percent in 2006 and to six percent now.
* CDC estimates that > HIV rates are seven times higher among African Americans and three times higher among Latinos compared to whites. While these groups are more likely than whites to see HIV/AIDS as an urgent problem, fewer say it is a "more urgent" problem for their community now than in 2006 (declining from 23% to 17% of all adults, 49% to 40% of African Americans, and 46% to 35% of Latinos).
* The share of those ages 18-29 who say they are personally very concerned about becoming infected with HIV declined from 30 percent in 1997 to 17 percent today; personal concern among young African Americans declined from 54 percent to 40 percent over the same time period.
* More than half (53%) of non-elderly adults say they have been tested for HIV, including 19 percent who say they were tested in the past year. Testing is most common among adults under the age of 30, with three in ten young adults and nearly half (47%) of young African Americans reporting having been tested in the past year. However, reported testing rates for all these groups have not changed much in the past decade.
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Closing out the Columbus-National Coming OUT HoliDay weekend; and lookin' back on the last two ROCKtober weekends...
Post Primary Election, my Case Manager asked me what I was going to do now to focus my time, energy & resources on!? I replied that I wasn't exactly sure but that it would be true to my personal Mission Statement: "To use the rest of my life the best I can so that the people and places through which my journey leads me will remain a little bit better for me having passed their way..." as well as the beneficiaries of my LIVING Trust. I've felt for a long time that my purpose is to try to make things better for those who come after me, starting with Coming OUT the first time in 1978 when my parents discovered I was gay and my mom said I couldn't live in her house being that way followed with my 2nd Coming OUT in 1991 when I tested HIV+. In both cases, the obstacles to my > living the best Life I could was Prejudice, Stigma, Discrimination and FEAR! Fear of what I may lose if I lived my life openly and authentically... Love & Support by friends and family, a job, housing, etc. However, I came to realize that "A Life Lived in FEAR, is a Life HALF-Lived" so I decided to take that Risk of Living and use my experience to learn and then share it so others would be able to navigate their own Journey with my trip-tic...
> September 25, 2010 12:08
>
> New Survey Finds Less Than a Year After CDC Announced the U.S. HIV Epidemic is Much Larger Than Previously Thought, Public's Sense of > Urgency is Down, Even Among Some Higher Risk Groups
<http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/posr042809pkg.cfm>
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation From press release
Less than a year after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recalculated the size of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and announced that there were 40 percent more new HIV infections each year than previously believed, a new survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that Americans' sense of urgency about HIV/AIDS as a national health problem has fallen dramatically and their concern about HIV as a personal risk has also declined, even among some groups at higher risk.
Key findings of the survey include:
* The share of Americans naming HIV/AIDS as the most urgent health problem facing the nation dropped precipitously from 44 percent in 1995 > to 17 percent in 2006 and to six percent now.
* CDC estimates that > HIV rates are seven times higher among African Americans and three times higher among Latinos compared to whites. While these groups are more likely than whites to see HIV/AIDS as an urgent problem, fewer say it is a "more urgent" problem for their community now than in 2006 (declining from 23% to 17% of all adults, 49% to 40% of African Americans, and 46% to 35% of Latinos).
* The share of those ages 18-29 who say they are personally very concerned about becoming infected with HIV declined from 30 percent in 1997 to 17 percent today; personal concern among young African Americans declined from 54 percent to 40 percent over the same time period.
* More than half (53%) of non-elderly adults say they have been tested for HIV, including 19 percent who say they were tested in the past year. Testing is most common among adults under the age of 30, with three in ten young adults and nearly half (47%) of young African Americans reporting having been tested in the past year. However, reported testing rates for all these groups have not changed much in the past decade.
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Closing out the Columbus-National Coming OUT HoliDay weekend; and lookin' back on the last two ROCKtober weekends...
Although
you may find it hard to express yourself in some ways, Pisces, the one
avenue that's completely wide open today is art. Difficult tension is
laced with emotional insecurity, making it hard for you to express your
feelings. If you feel that this is the case, find some other means of
expressing these emotions. A large canvas and some paints will work
quite nicely.
ONAP Commissions Institute of Medicine to Examine Data Gaps in Monitoring Access and Quality of HIV Care Posted by Jeffrey Crowley and Gregorio Millett on October 04, 2010 at 10:20 AM EDT This time last year, the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) announced a contract with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to conduct a series of policy analyses to help inform the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. The first of three reports from this project was released two weeks ago and presents important information for policymakers and members of the public working to expand HIV testing and screening in order to identify and link to care all people living with HIV (http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2010/HIV-Screening-and-Access-to-Care-Exploring-Barriers-and-Facilitators-to-Expanded-HIV-Testing.aspx ).
South Bank HIVe CommUNITY-Based Network:
AIDSVote has five guiding principles regarding AIDS treatment, HIV prevention, AIDS research and respect for people living with HIV/AIDS. These principles are our core values and remain constant, no matter the election year. The tools to end AIDS exist. What we need is the political will!
10. Education:
Mobilize social marketing campaigns and web sites to provide accessible, current, and factual information about HIV/AIDS, to educate individuals about how to protect themselves from HIV infection and take care of themselves if they have HIV
Campaign to End AIDS
created AIDSVote in order to educate candidates for public office and voters about the crucial role that elected officials play in ending the AIDS epidemic domestically and globally. AIDSVote believes that if elected officials commit to five basic principles regarding treatment, prevention, housing, research and respect, we can end the epidemic worldwide, sooner rather than later.
AIDSVote has five guiding principles regarding AIDS treatment, HIV prevention, AIDS research and respect for people living with HIV/AIDS. These principles are our core values and remain constant, no matter the election year. The tools to end AIDS exist. What we need is the political will!
10. Education:
Mobilize social marketing campaigns and web sites to provide accessible, current, and factual information about HIV/AIDS, to educate individuals about how to protect themselves from HIV infection and take care of themselves if they have HIV
Campaign to End AIDS
created AIDSVote in order to educate candidates for public office and voters about the crucial role that elected officials play in ending the AIDS epidemic domestically and globally. AIDSVote believes that if elected officials commit to five basic principles regarding treatment, prevention, housing, research and respect, we can end the epidemic worldwide, sooner rather than later.
--- In SouthBankHIVe@yahoogroups.com, "mwcltonline" <sobankqueenbee@...> wrote:
> My vote is my voice and I refuse to be silenced!
> This November, I pledge to vote to show that people Living with HIV/AIDS
> are unwilling to accept the stigma, discrimination, indifference and
> invisibility any longer. I stand with the progressive community in
> support of equality for all!Elections are often determined by slim
> margins, but I know I can make a difference. I refuse to be marginalized
> and pledge to get out and vote.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
FOLLOW THE GIVE A DAMN CAMPAIGN
You have already taken the first step to follow the Give a Damn Campaign by joining us on wegiveadamn.org.
Now, take it one step further and stay informed and involved by following us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER and YOUTUBE!
HIV/AIDS Awareness Days www.aids.gov
Michael Connett via South Bank HIVe CommUNITY-Based Network:
Aging with HIV/AIDS aids.gov Index Page
At the start of the epidemic, people who were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS could expect to live only 1-2 years after that diagnosis. But new medications and treatments have changed that. Life expectancy for people with HIV disease has increased dramatically—which means that they now have to face the challenges of aging with HIV/AIDS.
AIDS grant stirs controversy Posted by Max Brantley on Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:39 AM
So far, Jason Tolbert is the vanguard, but I suspect the Republican Party will get wider coverage before long of an HIV/AIDS prevention grant that drew attention in a legislative committee last week.
It's likely to be a pity how this turns out. The issue will become controversial for the wrong reason — because it touches on sex and gay people — and not simply for what appear to be legitimate questions about how the program was administered.
Public Disclosure of HIV Status: Public Safety or Breach of Confidentiality?
Pros: By releasing the man's name, photo, and HIV status, theoretically women and men he may encounter in the future will be aware of his HIV status and could take the proper precautions in the event of any sexual contact.
Cons: Disclosing this man's HIV status, name and photo jeopardizes every HIV positive person's right to confidentiality. Where will the line be drawn? When will it be judged to be ok to violate someone's right to confidentiality? Eventually, the confidentiality of all medical records, HIV positive and nagative alike could be in jeopardy.
This Holiday Season; RED Ribbons & AESOP!
2010 World HIV/AIDS Awareness & Comemorative Events
presented by MWCLT/South Bank Synergistics, Merchant Marketing and GetOneFree.com for the benefit of The South Bank HIVe
2010 World HIV/AIDS Awareness & Comemorative Events
presented by MWCLT/South Bank Synergistics, Merchant Marketing and GetOneFree.com for the benefit of The South Bank HIVe
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