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Ponies and PiratesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Just wanted to direct you all to a piece that the Newark Star Ledger did this past week on me for World AIDS Day. The reporter spent some time with me at the barn...and met my horses, who play a big role in keeping me sane, relaxed, healthy and outdoors. As I write this, I'm contemplating whether or not I really want to go spend two hours in the freezing gloaming...but then I think about how I'll feel when I walk into the barn and my horses whinny because they're happy to see me (and know I will be giving them carrots and Cracklin' Oat Bran ((their favorite cereal))) and it makes it possible to suit up in my winter gear an...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - December 6, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

ONE DAY, A WORLD AIDS DAY WITHOUT AIDS?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
December 1st, 2008 was my third World AIDS Day as the editor of POZ. The day is always so bittersweet--it cooks up a cauldron of conflicting emotions for me. On the one hand, it is a day to pause and recall all those we've lost to AIDS and renew our resolve to keep millions of others from joining them in the hereafter. In that sense, it is a day full of grieving and grim determination. It is a day to acknowlege all the hurdles we still must clear: too many people who are living with HIV who don't know their HIV status, too many people in need of support and treatment who can't access it, too many children orphaned by the...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - December 4, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

ONE DAY, A WORLD AIDS DAY WITHOUT AIDS?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
December 1st, 2008 was my third World AIDS Day as the editor of POZ. The day is always so bittersweet-it cooks up a cauldron of conflicting emotions for me. On the one hand, it is a day to pause and recall all those we've lost to AIDS and renew our resolve to keep millions of others from joining them in the hereafter. In that sense, it is a day full of grieving and grim determination. It is a day to acknowledge all the hurdles we still must clear: too many people who are living with HIV who don't know their HIV status, too many people in need of support and treatment who can't access it, too many children orphaned by the...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - December 4, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Condom ConfidentialEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Two nights ago, while flipping around the channels, I came across an old (Season 3) episode of Seinfeld in which Kramer gives George some free, promotional condoms he was given. George uses them and has a scare with a new girlfriend because her period is late and they think she might be pregnant (she wasn't). I remembered seeing the show when it first aired and being amazed that in 1992, on prime time cable, on a hit TV show, people were talking openly about condoms. And it made me wonder: Where are the condoms on TV today? Has anyone seen one brandished recently? Not only are we missing educational and prevention opport...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - October 22, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

AIDS IN THE WHITE HOUSE?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I'm sitting in my office in New York with an eye on the clock knowing that I need to leave soon to be home in time to watch the final debate between the presidential candidates. (As if I need any further proof of my choice...but I would like to see Obama strike a final blow...) Before I head out, I wanted to share this video with you in case you haven't seen it. Click here to see a CBS News segment comparing the presidential candidates' positions on HIV/AIDS hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta. (How much do we love Sanjay for his continual and well informed coverage of HIV? A lot. I will never forget my interview with Paula Zahn. W...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - October 16, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Women (Unnecessarily) On the VergeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I got a call this morning from a friend who believed she may have been exposed to HIV, "by accident" she said, a week ago Friday night. She asked me what she should do; the only advice I could give her was to take an HIV test, now, and again in several months, to have protected sex from here on in and to try to mitigate situations in the future that might "accidentally" expose her to the virus. There was nothing else I could do for her. Had she called me within 72 hours of her potential exposure, I would have also recommended that she go to a doctor, or, over the weekend, the emergency room, and try to secure a course of "...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - October 13, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Babe in ArmsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An alleged photo of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin By now, you’ve likely heard that Bristol Palin, the 17-year-old unmarried daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is five months pregnant. Perhaps you’ve also heard that this bit of news was released to prove that Sarah Palin’s own fifth child, Trig, who is about five months old, IS actually her own child—and not that of her daughter, as some liberal blogs unofficially linked to the Obama campaign (e.g., barackoblogger.com) have hinted. The allegation was that Sarah Palin had faked her own pregnancy to cover up the fact that her te...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - September 3, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

About FaceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
When I first heard that the Chinese government was promoting safer sex at the 2008 Olympic Games by distributing information and condoms in hotels throughout Beijing, I was psyched (yeah, I know, I’m so ’80s). (Read the story here:
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - August 21, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

La Voz GlobalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Today, POZ made the backpage of La Voz Global, the daily newspaper of the International AIDS Conference! We have a space in the Global Village where we are collecting photographs and videos of people living with, and those affected by, HIV from around the world (for those of you who are here in Mexico City at the conference...please come see us at booth #200). A very special friend of POZ, photographer Joan L. Brown, is snapping some of the most amazing photos of those visiting the conference. Here is a snap of the coverage in La Voz Global and some shots of Joan and a subject (who is not necessarily HIV-positive - many o...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - August 7, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Bienvenidos a AIDS 2008!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The objective of this year's summit was to ensure sustainable positive leadership on the following advocacy priorities: universal access to treatment, care, support and prevention; criminalization of HIV transmission; positive prevention; sexual and reproductive health rights; and leadership. Many amazing activists spoke at the summit including: Anuar Luna, a Mexican HIV positive activist and co-founder of the Mexican network of People Living with AIDS; Deborah Williams, chair of the board of the Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS; Kokouvi Augustin Dokla, president of Togo network of People Living with HIV/AIDS...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - August 3, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

TURNING THE TIDEEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It’s not always easy being an AIDS activist and journalist. My mornings all too often begin with my reading nasty news from around the world of discriminatory actions towards people living with HIV, tales of positive people unable to get care or people so overcome by fear of disclosure that they don’t access the emotional support and medical help that they need. Every day, the POZ staff scours the global headlines, looking for news of AIDS, hoping that it’s good, braced for the fact that most of the time, it’s not. My favorite one this morning is about drug addicts in South Africa stealing Sustiva (efavirenz) from ...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - July 3, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

SUDDENLY, SUMMEREmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I am writing from my hopital bed while the latest antibiotic concoction they have devised for me drips into my arm...the nurse informed me they are springing me from the joint this a.m. - and she reminded me that today (June 21) is the first day of summer! Hospitals are like casinos. You have no idea about the passage of time, the outside world or climate changes. The only hint of an external world happened last night when a string of ambulances, fire trucks and marching bands passed along the avenue beside my seventh-story hospital window. I could barely hear the blaring sirens and beating drums, but somehow, through th...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - June 21, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

LEARNING FROM LIVING WITH HIVEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Good morning (and I mean morning...the sun is just coming up). This will be a brief blog as I am in the hospital with a nasty (is there any other kind?) staph infection in my knee. I've been here since monday, being poked and prodded and given a whammy of an antibiotic via IV...struggling to choke down the food (how can anyone make bad raspberry ice?) and trying to not let my brain rot by watching the travesty that is American TV...(I am totally hooked on "She's Got the Look" - the 35+ version of "America's Next Top Model" - speaking of which, read this week's interview with AIDS activist and ANTM contestant Nnenna on poz....
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - June 19, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

UNITING NATIONS AROUND THE FIGHT AGAINST AIDSEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The U.N. is now officially one of my favorite places in New York. I am sitting in the delegates' lounge watching the East River flow past the gigantic windows...it would be entirely scenic save for the slight haze created by the smoke of Galouise (someone help with the spelling! I don't smoke! And I last studied French in high school!) cigarettes...the U.N. is considered "international territory" and, as such, it is exempt from the NYC laws preventing people from smoking inside in the city. In addition to the incredible diplomacy and history-changing events that happen here, it's just an incredibly cool place, infused wi...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - June 11, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

SPITTING MADEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Okay, by now you have likely seen the news reports of the HIV-positive man sentenced on May 14 to 35 years in prison after spitting in the eye and open mouth of a police officer in Dallas, Texas. The jury concluded that the man's saliva could be considered a deadly weapon given his HIV status, despite the fact that there has never been a recorded case of HIV being transmitted through spitting. This is the third time this man, who is homeless, allegedly accosted a police officer with the intent to cause bodily harm. None of the policemen on whom he spit contracted HIV. I don't know which stuns me more, that the jury came t...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - May 20, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

POS OR NOT?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It's been a while since I've blogged (okay, it's been a really long while...) but the POZ team has been busy with a host of things, including developing a cool new stigma-busting online game with mtvU and the Kaiser Family Foundation. The game launched yesterday and it's already creating quite a stir! It's called "Pos or Not" and it's aimed at getting people to see that you can't tell who has HIV and who does not by looking at them. Our hope is that by daylighting all these amazing young people living with the virus and putting them into the mix with people who are HIV negative, people will finally realize that there's not...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - May 1, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Non-Uniform InkerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Okay, some of you have already seen that I’m in Kenneth Cole’s new Spring 2008 fashion campaign. For those who haven’t, I wanted to tell you about it. Not to self-promote, but because it is a great campaign with other people who, according to the folks at Kenneth Cole, “replace stereotypical models with bold, unexpected people of substance.” (Marketing people make everything sound great.) The campaign uses the new media cleverly to get across the point that, as the tagline says, “We all walk in different shoes.” It’s based on the notion of 25 years of non-uniform thinking, alluding to Kenneth Cole’s untra...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - February 19, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Staph is NOT the New AIDSEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
So I'm sitting at the vet's office, in rural New Jersey, with my large Siamese cat on my lap. He's got a fever--and a huge lump under his chin. It's clearly an infection, and as the two of us curl up in the waiting room corner, trying to keep a low profile as all the dogs in the room have their eyes fixed on us, I find myself wondering whether cats get the drug-resistant strain of methicillin-resistant staphyloccus aureus (or MRSA)--the much hyped infection that seems to have spread like MRSA itself through the international press. The press coverage on MRSA of late is so hysterical I'm not sure which to fear more--drug-re...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - January 24, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

NATIONAL AIDS AWARENESS MONTHEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I am afraid to count the number of days since I last blogged. I know I was in Australia and that was some time in August. It wouldn't be one of my blogs unless I started with a mea culpa for my absence. What can I say? The time flies and there is so much to do and so little of the flying time in which to do it. Anyway, I'm back. So I got up this morning and as I carved out a sizeable wedge of my Entenmann's raspberry twist danish, I realized that the box was covered with pink ribbons and messages about breast cancer awareness. And thinking back to my last visit to Shoprite, as I piled my food onto the beltway to check ou...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - October 20, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Witches, Virgins, Lorikeets and BandicootsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We left Australia Sunday morning (Aussie time) and flew through two sunrises, one sunset, across the international dateline from today into yesterday and from the southern to the northern hemisphere to arrive in Los Angeles four hours before we left Sydney. We then sat trapped on the departure side of security at LAX (LA’s international airport) for 16 hours while two planes we were supposed to ride home were deemed unsafe to fly. I don’t know what’s worse: the surreal jet lag (amplified by massive fatigue and a slight hangover…because after thirty hours of travel, you have to have a glass of wine…) or the cultur...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - August 2, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Bondi Beach and the Bra BoysEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Pictures of Bondi Beach, including safe sex messages amongst the graffiti)... As the International AIDS Conference came to a close this past Wednesday I sat out on the docks of Cockle Bay trying to resist feeding my French fries to the seagulls while reflecting on news I’d heard in one of the final sessions. I’d just seen a presentation of the latest data on testing for a high sensitivity reaction to Ziagen/abacavir, given by the drug’s manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline. To reduce a half-hour presentation into several sentences, scientists have determined that it is now possible to very accurately predict whether or no...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - July 30, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Breakfast with the CommunistsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I’ll take you back again in time, to Vietnam, a week ago last Thursday, when we awoke in the port city of Hai Phong. There is a lot of HIV infection in Hai Phong, much of it in the IDU and sex worker communities. I’d been sent to speak at the Dong Khe Ward in the Ngo Quyen district to about a 100 people living with HIV/AIDS, their families, people from their support groups and local ASOs and NGOs. Both the people and the local government in Hai Phong are working hard to control the AIDS epidemic there. As Vietnam is a recipient of PEPFAR funds, we were really curious to speak with local people at NGOs to see if the fun...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - July 28, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Kranskys and KoalasEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
After weeks of rice, fish, fruit and noodles, Sean and I were overcome with joy to encounter the hot dog of all hot dogs while wandering the streets of The Rocks, one of Sydney's oldest neighborhoods. It's called a Kransky and it puts even a New York City dirty water dog to shame. They are giant, brilliant red and spicy and when smothered in grilled onions and barbeque sauce, require two hands to eat. We planned to eat a second (if necessary) but after ingesting a whole Kransky, one needs to wait hours before attempting to eat anything else. I felt much like the snakes we saw in the wildlife center down at Cockle Bay (afte...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - July 24, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Hello from Down Under! (Farewell Asia)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hi! Sean and I made it from Vietnam, via Singapore, to Sydney, Australia. Friday's travel was a bit of a blur as I accidentally took a sleeping pill AND an Atavan on the plane. We arrived at 5 a.m. Australia time and spent a day and a half recovering so we'd be ready to roll again for the International AIDS Society conference... Sydney is an exquisite city. Though it's winter, the air is clear, the sky is blue and the sun is shining. As much as I loved Asia, it's a welcome relief to escape the heat and smog. No one is wearing a mask/scarf/t-shirt over their face to block the pollution. And I didn't realize how incessant t...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - July 23, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

The Hills Are AliveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Okay...time to finish up chronicling the Taipei trip. After visiting the Garden of Mercy and Harmony House on Saturday morning, we headed to the Lung YingTai Cultural Foundation for the Taipei Salon hosted by Dr. Lung Ying Tai. Dr. Lung hosts the Taipei Salon to discuss issues of cultural import. Also speaking with me on the panel was Nicole Yang, of Harmony House. Though I received much press in Taipei, it is people like Nicole, who stays up seven nights a week with the AIDS orphans and people living with HIV, and Hank, who is one of the first HIV positive people to come forward in Taiwan, whose stories must be told. I ...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - July 22, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Bouncing BabiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Saturday morning in Taipei, we visited two houses where they keep HIV positive children, and some HIV negative orphans of HIV positive parents. First stop was The Garden of Mercy, up a secret staircase where both the offices and the nursery are kept. The first three pictures are at The Garden of Mercy--the darling little boy pictured has been adopted by a couple in the U.S. and will soon be stateside. He tested HIV negative though his mom was positive. The woman seated on the floor with me is Susan, the lovely lady who runs The Garden of Mercy. The fourth picture is at Harmony Home, the aforementioned refuge for people liv...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - July 21, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

A Beautiful LifeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Me and the host of Beautiful Life TV Well, it's Saturday afternoon and we've just arrived in Sydney after traveling all night via Singapore. But before I catch you up on the rest of of Vietnamese trip, I'll recap the rest of Taiwan... Thursday in Taiwan started out with the usual spread of incredible breakfast. The Grand Hyatt in Taipei is a magnificent hotel and it's hard to say whether our favorite part was the kicking penthouse pad they moved us to (who knows why but we weren't complaining with our nearly 360 degree views of Taipei from the 23rd floor, his and her bathrooms, a dining room, a lounge/TV area and a bathr...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - July 21, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

The Night MarketEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Speaking of pig snouts, I met a cute one (see above) in the night market in Taipei. He licked my toes clean in a shoe store. I think he is a lucky one and is a pet, not a meal. Before I go forward in time, let me take you back to Wednesday, day two of our Taipei trip. We flew down to the city of Kaohsiung, one of the largest ports in the world, to talk AIDS awareness, prevention and treatment tactics to students; people from ASOs and NGOs; government officials and the media. We’d been told that we might not have the same level of interest in the program down south and were so pleasantly surprised to see a packed house of...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - July 18, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Crunchy Pig SnoutsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We awoke this morning (Tuesday) for our second day of the Vietnam leg of the trip to the sounds of incessant honking. Hanoi, like New York City, seems to never sleep, and neither do we. Thankfully, today we had a bit of a breather on our busy journey. After a brief press conference this morning at the American consulate with the press and cultural attaché Angela Aggeler and local Hanoi reporters we were on our way for a three hour tour through seemingly endless (and beautiful) rice paddies peppered with water buffalo and people in knee-high rubber boots (as protection against the leeches) tending to their precious chartre...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - July 18, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Hi From Hanoi!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ok, I wrote a blog, added a picture, posted it and all was well until I tried to add more photos and POOF! the whole thing vanished. However, it's 12:40 a.m. in Hanoi, Vietnam so I am going to post one quick shot to say hello from Southeast Asia and rewrite or rebuild the blog tomorrow! This is a shot of me at the ICRT radio station just before I did Rick Monday's radio show in Taipei!!! OHHH! The original is saved under "Today on POZ.com" just click on "Regan in Taiwan."
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - July 16, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Good Morning, TaiwanEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hello from Taipei, Taiwan! It's 4:45 a.m. - about the same time as it is in the p.m. back in New York which explains my highly unusual early morning writing. I am traveling for three weeks on a U.S. State Department sponsored trip of the Pacific Rim and Down Under to discuss AIDS stigma and discrimination with government leaders, government officials, politicians, business leaders and people at ASOs and NGOs in Taiwan, Vietnam and Australia. I'm also going to the International AIDS Society conference in Australia (stay tuned for some fabulous web coverage of the conference...we are armed to the teeth with new technology an...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - July 11, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

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Source: Regan's HIV Blog - July 3, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Sisters Rise (and Shine)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Okay. It's been waaaaay too long since I've blogged. Not only is my blog embarassingly nearly at the end of the list (he or she who blogs most recently goes to the top) but my last blog referenced Christmas. Now, it is nearly Easter. Though it's hard to believe that because it's supposed to SNOW in New Jersey today. (I'm sitting here in my warm house worrying about all the bright white, just-born baby lambs on the farm down the street. What are they going to do when the snow starts falling? If I call her, my mom will say, "They're animals, they'll be ok." But there's a reason lambs are born in spring: It's supposed to be 6...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - April 7, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

BOOTS ON THE GROUNDEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As I was going through holiday pictures in my camera (the cats wrapped up in tinsel, the Christmas tree tied to the top of my mustang, etc.) I came across the shots I took of hurricane Katrina's aftermath in New Orleans. I had gone down to Louisiana for NAPWA's "Staying Alive: Access Matters" conference and NAPWA's executive director, Frank Oldham Jr., took the NAPWA board members on a tour of the devastation. As the tour bus (floor to ceiling windows) trundled into the first neighborhood and we saw houses that had been struck by the flood waters, there were gasps of disbelief. The bus was filled with the agitated chatte...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - January 26, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

RIDING (HIGH) ON THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS (PART I)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I woke up a week ago Sunday in my hotel room in New Orleans to the sound of Jack La Lanne’s voice. The image of the ’70s fitness king bare-chested—and surprisingly well muscled—filled the TV screen. He was standing waist deep in a swimming pool, still pumping iron at the age of 92. “To die?” he said in between grunts, “That’s simple. To live—that’s the hard thing.” As I struggled to raise my head from the pillow (I’d had one Hurricane too many) I agreed entirely with old Jack. I’d gone to NOLA for NAPWA’s “Staying Alive” conference. This was my first “Staying Alive” and I was really e...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - December 18, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Eternally ThankfulEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The holiday season kicked off to a strange start this Thanksgiving with weather more like that of Easter time--rainy and 65 degrees. My neighbor's forsythia bush had begun, in a moment of global-warming-induced-confusion, to bloom. As I dressed to make the rounds of friends and family's houses, I was having trouble getting into the holiday spirit. Perhaps because it felt more like I should be home spring cleaning than sitting down to stuff my face (which, of course, is exactly what I did.) Or, perhaps because the mass media, in an effort to milk the max out of its most lucrative celebration of the year (Christmas), skipped...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - November 28, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

The Big OEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Well, it's been a while since I've blogged. Things have been a bit crazy since the International AIDS Conference in Toronto. I'll fill you in soon. But for today...breaking news. Marvelyn and I were on The Oprah Winfrey Show today at 4 E.S.T. In fact, Marvelyn and I just blew back in from the windy city last night. We're still recovering from our plane ride with 100 mile an hour tail winds and a landing at Newark that had me reaffirming my faith as we bounced through the skies over Staten Island. It was an honor and a trip to be on Oprah. They're just not words you imagine hearing: "We'd like to invite you to be a guest o...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - October 26, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

GreenbacksEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I drive every morning from a farm in NJ to NYC to go to work. Lately, more than one person has asked me why I don't just live in the city. There are many reasons, and most of them have to do with nature and how it balances me out after stressful days in the urban jungle. But, sometimes, nature is way more stressful than the hot concrete, claustrophobia-inducing crowds and incessant din that permeate New York. Recently, the nightime chorus of frogs in the stream below my house has been keeping me awake. Appararently, frogs do not sleep, or, if they do, there are so many of them that they can take turns contributing to a non...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - July 29, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Long Blonde Hair and AIDS and AllEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Forgive my absence in the blogosphere! I'm back. Hmmmm....where to start? First, the news. Things have been heating up significantly at POZ headquarters...Marvelyn Brown (our POZ covergirl in January '06 and spokeswoman extraordinaire) has joined our team and we're delighted to have her. We're working away on several big ideas to pitch at the International World AIDS conference in Toronto this August. (We plan to have those ideas come to fruition on World AIDS Day come December and will share them with you as soon as we can.) I have been appointed to the board of directors of NAPWA (The National Association of People Livin...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - July 19, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Diving InEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I always thought, if I ever found the guts to do it, that I'd tell the world that I have HIV in a slow, relatively controlled, fashion. I'd mention it to a friend here, a family member there. They'd tell two friends, and they'd tell two friends, and so on. And so on. Instead, I took the plunge (to use another bad '70s advertising reference). I put my face on the April cover of POZ. And before I knew it, my mug was in the New York Times, June Vogue and New York magazine (among other places). Tomorrow, I am scheduled to appear at 8 a.m. on Good Morning America (where I pray they will give me Diane Sawyer and I pray she wi...
Source: Regan's HIV Blog - June 4, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs