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    <updated>2007-12-08T17:23:06Z</updated>
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    <title>What Might Your God Believe?</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2007:/joe//3.921</id>

    <published>2007-12-08T17:21:36Z</published>
    <updated>2007-12-08T17:23:06Z</updated>

    <summary>I wanted to post this in the forums, but I thought it might just be a little too touchy of a subject for some of the newer members, so instead, I will share my thoughts here and if someone wants...</summary>
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        I wanted to post this in the forums, but I thought it might just be a little too touchy of a subject for some of the newer members, so instead, I will share my thoughts here and if someone wants...
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<entry>
    <title>From Failure to Phoenix</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2007:/joe//3.905</id>

    <published>2007-11-30T04:18:13Z</published>
    <updated>2007-11-30T04:29:35Z</updated>

    <summary>To say the past few years have been a nightmare would be under-statement to the nth degree. We live in south Florida and over the past three years, the following has happened. Seven hurricanes in two years, with four hitting...</summary>
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        To say the past few years have been a nightmare would be under-statement to the nth degree. We live in south Florida and over the past three years, the following has happened. Seven hurricanes in two years, with four hitting...
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<entry>
    <title>Propagating the Hate</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2007:/joe//3.825</id>

    <published>2007-09-07T17:12:01Z</published>
    <updated>2007-09-07T17:22:24Z</updated>

    <summary>Sorry, for the dearth of posts in the last few months, but you know how it can be. I wanted to share the following with everyone, especially those people who do not believe that homophobia and hatred for gay and...</summary>
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        Sorry, for the dearth of posts in the last few months, but you know how it can be. I wanted to share the following with everyone, especially those people who do not believe that homophobia and hatred for gay and...
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<entry>
    <title>More Random Thoughts</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2007:/joe//3.699</id>

    <published>2007-04-27T21:36:57Z</published>
    <updated>2007-07-03T13:16:41Z</updated>

    <summary>One dear cost of indifference: is that too many people stood by as crack devastated parts of the black community and again we simply look askance at the devastation of Tina on the middle-class gay community. While it is ultimately...</summary>
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        One dear cost of indifference: is that too many people stood by as crack devastated parts of the black community and again we simply look askance at the devastation of Tina on the middle-class gay community. While it is ultimately...
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<entry>
    <title>Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2007:/joe//3.691</id>

    <published>2007-04-21T20:00:21Z</published>
    <updated>2007-04-21T20:34:55Z</updated>

    <summary>I am unsure of how this entry is going to unfold because I feel that my “Rounds” entry has laid some foundation and so I would like to build upon it. It is my hope that you will start to...</summary>
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        I am unsure of how this entry is going to unfold because I feel that my “Rounds” entry has laid some foundation and so I would like to build upon it. It is my hope that you will start to...
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<entry>
    <title>How Much Are You Willing To Pay?</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2007:/joe//3.683</id>

    <published>2007-04-12T18:32:18Z</published>
    <updated>2007-04-12T18:40:37Z</updated>

    <summary>As a Long-Term Survivor living with HIV, I often get asked what the secret is to living with HIV. Of course there is no one answer, but there are options and which ones you use, can have a marked effect...</summary>
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        As a Long-Term Survivor living with HIV, I often get asked what the secret is to living with HIV. Of course there is no one answer, but there are options and which ones you use, can have a marked effect...
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<entry>
    <title>An Author In the Family; The Thread That Binds</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2007:/joe//3.682</id>

    <published>2007-04-11T12:51:22Z</published>
    <updated>2007-07-03T13:06:08Z</updated>

    <summary>There are few things so powerful in life, as when someone is able to conceive of a story, that they word smith into a book worthy of publishing. I cannot imagine the drive and determination required, as well as the...</summary>
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        There are few things so powerful in life, as when someone is able to conceive of a story, that they word smith into a book worthy of publishing. I cannot imagine the drive and determination required, as well as the...
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<entry>
    <title>In many parts of the world all health care workers can be equal</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2006:/joe//3.591</id>

    <published>2006-12-13T15:38:54Z</published>
    <updated>2006-12-13T15:40:06Z</updated>

    <summary>As we consider ways of broadening our HIV prevention strategy, we need to start thinking outside of the box and that includes expanding the number of health care workers, regardless of their background, but rather based on their place within...</summary>
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        As we consider ways of broadening our HIV prevention strategy, we need to start thinking outside of the box and that includes expanding the number of health care workers, regardless of their background, but rather based on their place within...
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    <title>Want to seriously reduce HIV infection rates?  Try this!</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2006:/joe//3.582</id>

    <published>2006-12-01T00:59:33Z</published>
    <updated>2006-12-01T01:01:28Z</updated>

    <summary>As HIV infection rates continue to rise in many countries and we search for ways to reduce that rate, I am amazed that nobody is pressing harder for changes, but not changes in prevention messages, but real change on a...</summary>
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        As HIV infection rates continue to rise in many countries and we search for ways to reduce that rate, I am amazed that nobody is pressing harder for changes, but not changes in prevention messages, but real change on a...
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    <title>Rounds</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2006:/joe//3.569</id>

    <published>2006-11-18T00:41:20Z</published>
    <updated>2006-11-18T21:32:19Z</updated>

    <summary>The year is 1985, the city is Detroit and I am about to start my “rounds.” I enter the hospital and proceed to the floor that is often referred to as “the morgue”. The walls are a putrid green (think...</summary>
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        The year is 1985, the city is Detroit and I am about to start my “rounds.” I enter the hospital and proceed to the floor that is often referred to as “the morgue”. The walls are a putrid green (think...
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    <title>Why HIV must no longer be considered as anything but a disease</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2006:/joe//3.563</id>

    <published>2006-11-10T17:08:30Z</published>
    <updated>2006-11-10T17:23:16Z</updated>

    <summary>They started a new HIV prevention campaign in Los Angeles that included posters that said “HIV is a gay disease”. While I understand the need to reawaken the Gay community about HIV, I believe this type of campaign just fosters...</summary>
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        They started a new HIV prevention campaign in Los Angeles that included posters that said “HIV is a gay disease”. While I understand the need to reawaken the Gay community about HIV, I believe this type of campaign just fosters...
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<entry>
    <title>What if?</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2006:/joe//3.493</id>

    <published>2006-09-27T04:09:42Z</published>
    <updated>2006-10-30T22:36:25Z</updated>

    <summary>Sometimes fate can present issues that challenge us to our core. When a confluence of events occurs and the result falls somewhere between scared shitless to insanity. It would appear that my stars have crossed because I am teetering on...</summary>
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        Sometimes fate can present issues that challenge us to our core. When a confluence of events occurs and the result falls somewhere between scared shitless to insanity. It would appear that my stars have crossed because I am teetering on...
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<entry>
    <title>Tolerance for HIV is no longer enough</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2006:/joe//3.482</id>

    <published>2006-09-10T22:24:34Z</published>
    <updated>2006-10-30T22:36:25Z</updated>

    <summary>I live in an area that has a very large population of HIV positive men and many of them are also gay. This community supports a few ASOs, charities, newspapers, and establishments and meets the needs of the poz population...</summary>
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        I live in an area that has a very large population of HIV positive men and many of them are also gay. This community supports a few ASOs, charities, newspapers, and establishments and meets the needs of the poz population...
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    <title>If HIV is a gift, please direct me to customer service!</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2006:/joe//3.477</id>

    <published>2006-08-31T01:07:46Z</published>
    <updated>2006-10-30T22:36:25Z</updated>

    <summary>Of all the strangest issues surrounding HIV, I find none as perplexing as those who feel that HIV is somehow is a gift. Now my understanding of a gift, is something you give to another, to make that person feel...</summary>
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        Of all the strangest issues surrounding HIV, I find none as perplexing as those who feel that HIV is somehow is a gift. Now my understanding of a gift, is something you give to another, to make that person feel...
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<entry>
    <title>Remembering</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2006:/joe//3.433</id>

    <published>2006-06-23T22:57:46Z</published>
    <updated>2006-10-30T22:36:25Z</updated>

    <summary>My initial thought was to write an entry, that would honor our fallen and serve as a gentle reminder of acknowledging all of those we have lost to this disease. I considered recollecting some of the beautiful people I have...</summary>
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        My initial thought was to write an entry, that would honor our fallen and serve as a gentle reminder of acknowledging all of those we have lost to this disease. I considered recollecting some of the beautiful people I have...
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