the Cuddle Pile is Growing Larger!!

Blair Witch kitten for Halloween! Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Shadow is round

Good morning. I am away and left Hubby at home to look after Elan and Elise.

This was Elan enjoying the sun on her face on Monday.

#WhiskerWednesday
#WhiskersWednesday
#cats #catsofbluesky
#Photography 📷

One eye looks slightly open, but I'm pretty sure she's sleeping like this.

Someone somewhere is having toast for dinner and calling it self-care. And honestly? They’re right.
#selfcare #relatable #bluesky #randomthought

So cozy so eepy.

HIV is not a death sentence. Silence is.
Show love. Get tested. Support those living with HIV.
You’re not alone — we fight together. ❤️

HIV doesn’t define a person. Stigma does.
Getting tested is care. Talking about it is courage. Supporting each other is power. 💪❤️

Let’s break the silence and educate, not discriminate.
#HIVAwareness #GetTested #LGBTQSupport #EndStigma

The heartbreak abounds in every direction, but it's so devastating to lose young people to HIV when we know how to prevent those deaths. We are now witnessing the horrific impacts of the U.S. Government's cuts to global health. magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/wor...

RFK Jr is an AIDS denialist who doesn't believe HIV causes AIDS, and that's why he thinks an HIV vaccine can't be developed. He said this just two years ago:

"There are much better candidates than HIV for what causes AIDS."
nymag.com/intelligence...

Carter: gutting preventing & treatment in HIV. CDC cornerstone of HIV prevention.

RFK: we don't intend to cut HIV treatment.

C: respectfully you have. 91% of all fed funding HIV prevention.

say you don't want to cut - reality is that you have.

‘Monumental’ HIV shot could be coming to Canada. What we know https://globalnews.ca/news/11254654/hiv-prevention-shot-canada/

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

The Trump administration has clawed back more than $11 billion in federal public health grants to states and abruptly terminated millions of dollars in funds for HIV work. Testing and outreach for HIV faltered in the South, a region that accounts for more than half of all HIV diagnoses.

A breakthrough preventive drug that offers total protection from HIV was to be rolled out across parts of Africa this year. But the Trump administration’s foreign aid cuts derailed those plans.

We saved 0.1% of the Federal budget by condemning 300k people a year to HIV infection.

It’s true we don’t have a “vaccine” for HIV, but we *do* have an injectable long-lasting HIV prevention drug that was supported by NIH research dollars and approved by the FDA literally days ago. So stupid to back off on vaccine research when we’ve made so many promising breakthroughs recently.

CARTER: How could you possibly justify the decision to terminate HIV vaccines studies?

RFK JR: We've been promising an HIV vaccine since 1984 and every year Congress pours money into it

CARTER: Because they haven't come up with one, you then cut the forward motion by getting rid of NIH dollars?

Evolution of the LGBTQ+ Pride flag

People living with HIV have various blood tests throughout the course of their treatment. Some are directly related to HIV (viral load tests & CD4 counts) and others monitor your general health, blood chemistry & test for side-effects.