Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
I teach adolescent boys with HIV. The Hard To Reach. Many of the boys have done sex work. They all come from extraordinary poverty, impoverished and struggling school districts, the guilt and remorse prostitution engenders, and the debilitating stigma HIV itself promotes. Where in this is there any hope. Suicide…
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Stigma at Public Health
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broken trust
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Many things can fade with time. The sexual abuse of kids is not always one of those things. The average male who has been abused, does not begin to articulate that abuse until the age of thirty. At Smash Street, we try to put the pieces back together again because…
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medical abuse by blair
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Often, the medical community, in its quest to reduce our humanity down to what it sees as manageable numbers, just creates bigger problems that are difficult and complex to even begin to solve. The medical community is indifferent, patriarchal, authoritarian, mean, and frequently wrong. Infectious disease specialists have a long…
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writing about HIV and being sexually abused
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I would liquidate my body
But especially my ass
That is what he always wanted
I had to hold still
While my mind screamed
Squandering depreciation
A pull upon the
Pursuit of extortion
If I told he would kill me
It was not a joke
He would kill me
At…
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AIDS Is Not Over: Tim Barrus: NY Times
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/health/aids-cure-london-patient.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
http://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/health/aids-cure-london-patient.html?comments#permid=30899203
I have friends from the Democratic Republic of Congo. They will not get a cure. They are dying. I have friends here in Appalachia who will not get a cure. They are dying. I know a married couple who live in Samara, Russia.…
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Selectively Mute
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Selectively mute children are selective silent for a reason. They want us to understand the degree to which they were traumatized. So they pick a very dramatic vehicle to SHOW us (versus telling us) they mean business.
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Sexual Abusers
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Requiring sexual abusers to have to pay towards the support of boys who have been victimized – including subsequent therapies when the child becomes an adult – could go a long way as a consequence of this monstrous behavior. Make these men pay. Real dollars. This, too, could upend Foster…
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HIV & Heart Disease
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For some people with HIV, high blood pressure, and increased levels of cholesterol (the bad kind) can affect associated inflammation linked to heart pain and heart disease.
Combine this with a competitive personality, like Smurf’s, you may have to yank him out of strenuous physical activity – or – any…
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HOW DO WE RAISE BOYS TO BECOME MEN
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