This year, several agencies such as DAP Health, the LGBT center, Eisenhower Health and Borrego Health have teamed up to put together the 6th Annual HIV and Aging Conference. The Aging Positively Reunion Project is Saturday, Sept. 18. 2021, on national HIV and Aging Awareness day. The event aims to bring attention to the many […]
Fighting a deadly virus is nothing new for Rick Pantelle. He’s been fighting and managing a human immunodeficiency virus for more than 30 years. “You never forget the day that you find out you have H.I.V. And when I found out I had H.I.V.; people were dying every single day”. Pantelle eventually came to terms […]
The first person to be cured of HIV was memorialized earlier today in Palm Springs. Timothy Brown was cured of HIV in 2007 and died in September of 2020 from leukemia, but his legacy lives on at wellness park where people gathered to remember his life. “At the time he was living in Berlin, Germany […]
After almost 4 decades of healthcare service in the Coachella Valley Desert Aids Project is changing with the times. They are rebranding as “dap Health.” Steven Henkie shares how exciting and inclusive the pivoting process was with Sandie Newton in this Silver Linings.
Desert AIDS Project has been responding to the COVID-19 pandemic while ensuring its patients get the care they need. In honor of World Aids Day, Desert Aids Project C.E.O. David Brinkman shares how the organization is preparing for the future. He also mentions how we can all help our community with this NBCares.
Timothy Ray Brown, the Palm Springs resident who was the first person to be cured of HIV/AIDS has died. Brown’s partner, Tim Hoeffgen, confirmed to NBC Palm Springs that Brown died shortly after 3:00 Tuesday afternoon in their Palm Springs home, not of HIV or AIDS, but of leukemia. Timothy Brown was living in Berlin […]
For the first time in 19 years, a team of scientists has detected a new strain of HIV. The strain is a part of the Group M version of HIV-1, the same family of virus subtypes to blame for the global HIV pandemic, according to Abbott Laboratories, which conducted the research along with the University of Missouri, Kansas City. […]
