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- 1986/The Virus That Dared Not Speak Its Name: Part XII of an Ongoing Chronicle of the First Fifteen Years of the AIDS Pandemic May 7, 2021
- 1986: 217 T Cells – Part XI of an Ongoing Chronicle of the First Fifteen Years of the AIDS Pandemic by Bruce Ward March 29, 2021
- “Years of Living Precariously”. My monthly chronicle of the early years of the AIDS epidemic, in A&U Magazine. Part X 1985/86: “The Worried Well”. Working as a Counselor at the NYC Dept of Health AIDS Hotline, answering frantic calls from frantic citizens living in a city under siege; receiving my own test results for HTLV-III antibodies and a very low t-cell count. February 27, 2021
- “It’s A Sin”: Spotlight Review in A&U Magazine February 18, 2021
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- “The Shot Heard Round the World.” 1985. Remembering Rock Hudson’s press conference with Doris Day. “Years of Living Precariously”: Part IX of my ongoing chronicle of the early years of the AIDS pandemic, in A&U Magazine January 25, 2021
- Years of Living Precariously, A&U Magazine, PT. VIII. 1986: First Ray of Hope? January 3, 2021
- Harm Reduction: An Alternative Approach to Managing Addiction, Talkspace Newsletter December 9, 2020
- Years of Living Precariously”, A&U Magazine. Pt. VII. 1985: 745 Healthy Gay Men December 4, 2020
- Remember Their Names: a re-post for World AIDS Day, Dec 1, 2020 December 1, 2020
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Years of Living Precariously, A&U Magazine, September, 2020 Part V, “In An Instant” – the exact moment of contact, Honolulu, August 1984
(click on link for chapter) I was conscious of it all, conscious of my desire, conscious of the risk, aware of his body on top of me, as if I were floating above myself, observing the moment when my life … Continue reading
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“Not Our First Pandemic”: The View From A Long-Term HIV Survivor, Talkspace Newsletter
Not Our First Pandemic: The View From a Long-Term HIV Survivor byBruce Ward Jun 23, 2020 6 minute read I acquired the virus we now know as HIV in 1984, three years after the first AIDS cases were reported in … Continue reading
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