Activist to host toy drive for ill children By LINDSEY ADKISON ladkison@thebrunswicknews.com Buy Now Local activist Derek Canas makes a speech during the College of Coastal Georgia’s event displaying the AIDS Memorial Quilt quilt display in 2016. Canas is holding a toy drive for area children who are in local hospitals. Derek Canas knows all […]
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I submitted the #EndTheStigma logo as part of an art contest in Atlanta. “As advocates work in 2018 to create stigma-free environments for people living with HIV across the city, these selected works will become the “stickers” that will notify people upon entry that staff have received training and have made a commitment to serving people […]
Ten Sexiest Straight Men Living With HIV In 2014 Posted on December 24, 2014 1. Bob Bowers aka One Tough Pirate (San Francisco, CA) Bowers outreach educates, raises awareness, fights stigma, and perhaps most importantly, invokes compassion, hope, and affirmative change on our planet. Infected in 1983 from a one-time decision to share a needle, Bob is […]
Since I need to write more I needed ideas so I’m going to try this Day 1 : Basic Things , I’m short ,hilarious and cooler than your lame boyfriends. Well that was easy Day 2 : likes 1. My dogs 2. video games 3. Agent J and Bella 4. DJing 5. Going to the […]
What It’s Like to Date When You’re Straight and HIV Positive The cruelty from prospective partners can be heartbreaking. S.E. Smith Jun 29 2017, 2:00pm Joshua Middleton/Nestor Rogel More than one million people in the United States have HIV, and the CDC estimates that one in seven don’t even know it. While HIV is far from the […]
Music: Interview with DJ extraordinaire and AIDS Activist Derek Canas Today, we bring to the blog Derek Canas, with an inspiring story that highlights the resilient human spirit of survival, and of making your dreams come true regardless of the adversities. Derek is a DJ who goes by the name of DJ D-REK, and he’s […]
Derek Canas’s Story January 30, 2017 by Brian Ledford Derek Canas (AKA D-REK) Born a sweet, cute, seemingly healthy baby who had everything going for him until the age of 3 months, when he was surrounded by many doctors talking about transposition of the great arteries, pacemakers, and blood transfusions. His parents now had, what they called a […]
Man contracted HIV as a baby, starts ‘End The Stigma’ campaign Lisa Robbins, First Coast NewsPublished 7:55 a.m. ET April 6, 2015 | Updated 5:23 p.m. ET April 6, 2015 (Photo: Robbins, Lisa) BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Doctors call him a medical mystery. A Brunswick man lived 16 years before doctors realized he contracted HIV as an […]
