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Adrian Betts, Executive Director of the 
Shannon, talking directly to PHAs on the video, below pulls no punches. “You do need to quit smoking. Quitting smoking is one of the best things you can do to improve your health". She echoes Adrian in saying you need to do it for yourself, because you want to. But she’s a realist. “It’s so difficult to quit smoking because it’s a powerful addiction – as addictive as heroin and cocaine. Plus smoking quickly becomes part of a person’s everyday life, so there’s a biological component as well as a behavioural component." She says that on average it takes people between seven and nine attempts to quit. But, she says, “the main thing we want people to learn here is that from each quit attempt you learn something that can help with the next one – and make it easier.”
The OHTN’s Sean Rourke sees great potential in this project. “We want to help people to make healthy choices” he says. ”I’m not sure it's taboo” he saysArts and Entertainment Section
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Guest writer Kenn Chaplin recalls the time he met Liberace, the closeted gay performer with AIDS who was the subject of the recent TV movie Behind the Candelabra -
DJ Relentless says "it seems that the new thing in music is the return of the white artist who does black music.” -
Bridegroom - a tragic love story
Chistian Dolan and a documentary film about the loss of one’s partner that makes a powerful case for LGBT equality and human rights
Activism Section
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In praise of the unconventional life
Michael Yoder says “The AIDS world (or industry) is bereft of non-conformists. We have ceased to be unconventional and that saddens me.” -
Stop bludgeoning young gay men with our AIDS tragedy
Mark S. King says let's not drag up the past in an attempt to stop new infections. “The 1980′s are history. They are not a prevention strategy” he says. -
Amy C. Willis and the AIDS ACTION NOW! Steering Committee are calling all gay, bi, and trans and other men who have sex with other men to think more critically about pressing charges involving cases of non-disclosure of HIV status
Current Affairs Section
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Nelson Mandela: great is too small a word
Dave R: Nelson Mandela (1918 to 2013) may go down in history as one of the greatest ever world statesmen but it is work in trying to defeat HIV/Aids both in South Africa and across the world that we should remember him for -
Guest Robert Reinhard shares his remarks at the recent announcement by the Canadian Government of an additional $10.7 million in grants toiwrds cure research -
Reflections for AIDS Awareness Week 2013
Olivia Kijewski : “While I know we have come a long way since AIDS first made its mark on the map in the early 80’s, I find myself spending the most amount of time still considering what needs to done.”
Events Section
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A brief history of HIV and AIDS
Many are familiar wiih the AIDS timeline approach to documenting our history. Here’s one version from Better2Know in the UK which hits many of the important milestones of the last thirty two years of the epidemic -
Bob Leahy reports on The Ontario AIDS Network’s latest Honour Roll inductees, presented at a gala function In Toronto last week. -
Reflections for AIDS Awareness Week 2013
Olivia Kijewski : “While I know we have come a long way since AIDS first made its mark on the map in the early 80’s, I find myself spending the most amount of time still considering what needs to done.”
Features and Interviews Section
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Ask Sister Sero: relationship advice for the virally challenged
Rejected by all mainstream gay magazines, unqualified, untrained and uncompromising; Sister Sero Positivo brings her unfettered views on HIV Positive relationship problems to PositiveLite.com -
Two couples, two HIV-positive dads explore whether treatment can halt transmission. Heather Boerner with an exclusive excerpt from an upcoming ebook on serodiscordant couples trying to have a baby. -
Bob Leahy talks about a project called Positive Quitting involving PositiveLite.com and the OHTN to put smoking cessation back on the table for those who want to quit and help improve the health and wellbeing of people living with HIV
Health Section
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Are pets good for you? They’ve sometimes come with health warnings for people living with HIV. But how much do those warnings apply in an age of antiretroviral therapy and immune systems that are sometimes doing very well. Bob Leahy reports. -
Take complementary and alternative medicines?
A survey is looking for people living with HIV in Ontario to investigate the usage of complementary and alternative medicine. Want to help? -
Our girlwithhiv asks “What does it feel like to be a mother living with HIV with a child born free of the virus?”
International Section
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Our girlwithhiv asks “What does it feel like to be a mother living with HIV with a child born free of the virus?”
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Nelson Mandela: great is too small a word
Dave R: Nelson Mandela (1918 to 2013) may go down in history as one of the greatest ever world statesmen but it is work in trying to defeat HIV/Aids both in South Africa and across the world that we should remember him for -
From the UK’s FS Magazine; They stand accused of destroying lives, and some say they’re destroying the gay scene. Stuart Haggas looks at the truths and consequences of drugs like crystal meth, G and mephedrone.
Legal Section
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What World Aids Day 2013 means to me: the criminalisation of HIV
Our girlwithhv says “I know that on World Aids Day, I will be caring for my small child, while the (police) have still not made a decision to prosecute me for non-disclosure me with up to eight years imprisonment.” -
Amy C. Willis and the AIDS ACTION NOW! Steering Committee are calling all gay, bi, and trans and other men who have sex with other men to think more critically about pressing charges involving cases of non-disclosure of HIV status
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Open letter to the Prime Minister of Canada
Richard Elliott of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network shares an open letter supporting protection of access to HIV treatment following leak of the proposed text of the Trans-Pacific Trade agreement potentially affecting patents and generic medicines.
Lifestyle Section
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Regular readers will be familiar with LA guy Kengi’s beloved pooch, Dodger. Now there is a new addition to the Kengi household. Meet Daisy -
Bob Leahy and his annual ode to the season in which he (sort of) gets his three dogs to join him in wishing PositiveLite.com readers a happy holiday season. -
Are pets good for you? They’ve sometimes come with health warnings for people living with HIV. But how much do those warnings apply in an age of antiretroviral therapy and immune systems that are sometimes doing very well. Bob Leahy reports.
Living with HIV Section
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Guest writer Kenn Chaplin recalls the time he met Liberace, the closeted gay performer with AIDS who was the subject of the recent TV movie Behind the Candelabra
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Regular readers will be familiar with LA guy Kengi’s beloved pooch, Dodger. Now there is a new addition to the Kengi household. Meet Daisy
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Bob Leahy and his annual ode to the season in which he (sort of) gets his three dogs to join him in wishing PositiveLite.com readers a happy holiday season.
Media Section
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HIV fame: the ego gift that keeps on giving
Tom Latte turnns his attention to the AIDS stars - "those whose claim to fame is living with HIV, people who seem to confuse being infected by a disease with having done something noteworthy” -
Daniel Uy: "You heard me! I said it! I am done with it. Down with ”Suffering Porn!” It’s just getting ridiculous." -
Catch up on what you may have missed in this occasional series where we highlight PositiveLite.com’s most popular recent posts.
Opinion Pieces Section
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Are pets good for you? They’ve sometimes come with health warnings for people living with HIV. But how much do those warnings apply in an age of antiretroviral therapy and immune systems that are sometimes doing very well. Bob Leahy reports.
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HIV fame: the ego gift that keeps on giving
Tom Latte turnns his attention to the AIDS stars - "those whose claim to fame is living with HIV, people who seem to confuse being infected by a disease with having done something noteworthy” -
Bear not bear: who are we kidding?
Christopher Banks on the big gay men’s question of the day “Who’s a bear and who’s not?"
Population Specific Section
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Guest writer Kenn Chaplin recalls the time he met Liberace, the closeted gay performer with AIDS who was the subject of the recent TV movie Behind the Candelabra
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Bear not bear: who are we kidding?
Christopher Banks on the big gay men’s question of the day “Who’s a bear and who’s not?" -
Guest Writer newlypositive was diagnosed in September 2013. Follow him as he recounts the doubts and uncertainties of the early months of living with HIV
Sex and Sexuality Section
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Safer sex works in different ways
Married serodiscordant couple Michèle and Mic don’t use condoms anymore. They trust HIV medications to prevent HIV transmission. Here is their story. -
Ask Sister Sero: relationship advice for the virally challenged
Rejected by all mainstream gay magazines, unqualified, untrained and uncompromising; Sister Sero Positivo brings her unfettered views on HIV Positive relationship problems to PositiveLite.com -
How well is STI testing in gay men being done?
Urgent need to improve sexually transmitted infection screening for MSM in Europe. Lack of anal swabs and physical examinations likely to leave infections undiagnosed, aidsmap reports.
