Campaigns:

Start Talking. Stop HIV.
​A national campaign by the CDC
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Interviews:

How has living with HIV affected your desire to have a family?
​Positively Aware Magazine, 2020.

“This is a very timely question, as my partner and I are about to complete our classes to become certified foster parents. Very early on in my relationship with my partner, we discussed what our long-term goals were, including having children. And, fortunately, we both shared the same goal of one day growing our family. Our goal to become certified foster parents is to eventually adopt. And my HIV was not an obstacle when we decided to pursue this goal. Instead, as a person who has been living with HIV for over a decade, I believe I am better equipped at loving, accepting, and supporting a child who may also suffer from a stigmatized illness. Lastly, at the beginning of our relationship, I decided to disclose my HIV status to my partner. We made it a goal since to get routinely checked and make sure we both stay healthy. And to this day, I still maintain my undetectable status and he is still HIV-negative. As a result, this has allowed us to have peace of mind to plan ahead and go after big goals; in this case, adopt!”​
​
​Josué E. Hernández

The Future Is Already Here
Technological advances in HIV treatment and prevention.
​Positively Aware Magazine, 2019. Michelle Simek.

Amazing Grace or Highway to Hell?
​Positively Aware Magazine, 2018. Michelle Simek.

Raising awareness around HIV out in the community:

Writing:

A Letter to My Dad
​What I Wish I Had Told You The Last Time I Saw You. 
Second Acts Column, A&U: America's AIDS Magazine, 2019.

Mysterious Ways, Letter to the Editor.
​Positively Aware Magazine, 2018.

"I am HIV Positive"
My journey toward saying it out loud. 
​Second Acts Column, A&U: America's AIDS Magazine, 2018.

Interview on national TV in Spanish on Buenos Dias Familia morning show, Estrella TV network.
​June 26, 2018.

​Topic: Serodiscordant couples and raising awareness about U equals U (undetectable equals untransmittable).

Other interviews:

​Rainbow Day 2019
Covina Community Church -
United Church of Christ

Dr. Mica Steward, of the Relationship Repair and Care Clinic, [will] host a panel of experts to talk about the connection between abusive theology and mental health.

For more information about this event, please visit: ​https://www.covinacommunityucc.org/copy-of-rainbow-day

Sunday, October 27, 2019
Covina Community Church
1551 E. Old Badillo St.
Covina, CA
91724

How a Facebook Group helped me heal from religious trauma.
The Daily Dot, 2018. Jonathan P. Higgins, Ed.D.

​
AIDS
LGBTQ
LGBT Health
Gay Latino
#LetsTalkHIV
HIV awareness
HIV