kearns to la city council: medical cannabis, carmen trutanich & LA’s “extraordinary response” to HIV/AIDS (0079)

[tuesday, November 3, 2009] good morning
president garcetti, distinguished council
members. i have given the clerk copies
of my prepared remarks.

my name is richard kearns. i am a 58-year-old
gay man with AIDS, a long-term survivor & activist,
a medical cannabis advocate, a poet & journalist.

i am here this morning to suggest a
plan B for medical cannabis in LA

kearns: “rk—mission statement” (poem) (0078)

rk—mission statement

everything. all things. all loves. all knowledge. all
expressions. all passions.

as long as i have breath.

this day.

all ways.

in strength and weakness and joy and sorrow.

past the end.

around the bend.

kearns to LA city council: a 2-minute tour of my personal HIV/AIDS & aging-related frailties & multimorbidities (long play) (0076)

chers—

have video clips coming of this, and as part of my learning process will repost it later. but i wanted it and the next post to be in the mix.

namaste

—rk

[september 30, 2009, ryan white CARE act
sundown day] good morning president garcetti,
distinguished council members. i have given the
clerk copies of my prepared remarks.

my name is richard kearns. i am a 58-year-old
gay man living with AIDS in los angeles for more
than 20 years. i am a long-term survivor & AIDS
activist, a medical cannabis advocate, a poet and
journalist. i’m here today to talk with you about
HAVVACC, the online HIV/AIDS Volunteer
Virtual Assisted Care Community that began
publishing last week with the city’s proclamation
of National HIV/AIDS & Aging Awareness Day
(NHAAAD). Our aim is to assemble a body of
both anecdotal & scientific knowledge to help
prepare the demographic surge of HIVers over
50 to enter & reform the assisted care system in
los angeles. in five years our 50+ segment will
represent 60% of the national HIV-infected
population.

HAVVACC just published jules levin’s at
NATAP’s notes & links to recent abstracts from
studies on frailties & multimorbititiies in HIVers &
PWAs. it’s dry reading, but since i’ve got a good
number of them myself, i thought i would show
you how it works in a real-life person. (me.)

HIV/AIDS & H1N1: NATAP — states with most & least vaccine (forbes) (0065)

States With The Most And Least H1N1 Vaccine Per 1,000 Residents
Forbes.com 10.27.09, 05:30 PM EDT

Your chances of getting inoculated against America’s worst pandemic since the 1918 flu improve greatly depending on where you live.

chers—

another long chart follows. i think i got all the formatting toned down now

namaste

—rk

hiv/aids storytelling: kearns’ open poem to same-sex marriage townhall meet 10-19-2005 (0058)

an open poem to the october 19, 2005 town hall meeting for the equality for all campaign

my name is richard kearns. i am a gay man living with AIDS. i’ve lived with aids a while.

how can i help in this, our common struggle? our great LGBT vision of what marriage means?

kearns, havvacc: technical update from the piano player (048)

chers—

cobbling together a working network that’s old, new, borrowed & blue. but at least no more broken screens or duct tape.

but i don’t quite know what i’m doing, either.

hope to have this all rolling again by the end of the week. may have to switch hosting for the site so i can work with video posts. don’t quite know which end is up on that side of it either. please drop me a note at rk@aids-write.org if you’re wordpress savvy. i’m just the piano player.

namaste

—rk

kearns experiencing technical difficulties in publishing HAVVACC (047)

chers—

my laptop is dead in the water. i am posting this from a kinko’s copy center, which is pricey. hoping to get it fixed, but it’s probably gonna take a couple of weeks or so. have no access to email other than my phone.

any assistance anyone can send will be appreciated.

namaste

—rk

kearns: the war that can’t be won (reprint) (045)

chers—

this is the first post at aids-write.org, way back from june 2, 2005. still goes.

namaste

—rk

the war that can’t be won (001)
(LOS ANGELES, POSTED JUNE 2, 2005)

here begins the journal of an AIDS shaman.

jules levin, NATAP: research notes on HIV/AIDS, viral hep, HCV & bone density studies (039)

from Jules: 60% with HIV have osteopenia, 15% osteoporosis, at the average ages of 45. Fracture rates likely to be increased for HIV+ vs HIV- as patients age. Bone loss can contribute to frailty and mortality.

“BMD [bone mineral density —rk] is a predictor of both fragility fractures [15] and all-cause mortality”

kearns to LA city council: a 2-minute tour of my personal HIV/AIDS & aging-related frailties & multimorbidities (long play) (038)

[september 30, 2009, ryan white CARE act sundown day] good morning president garcetti, distinguished council members. i have given the clerk copies of my prepared remarks.

my name is richard kearns. i am a 58-year-old gay man living with AIDS in los angeles for more than 20 years. i am a long-term survivor & AIDS activist, a medical cannabis advocate, a poet and journalist. i’m here today to talk with you about HAVVACC, the online HIV/AIDS Volunteer Virtual Assisted Care Community that began publishing last week with the city’s proclamation of National HIV/AIDS & Aging Awareness Day (NHAAAD). Our aim is to assemble a body of both anecdotal & scientific knowledge to help prepare the demographic surge of HIVers over 50 to enter & reform the assisted care system in los angeles. in five years our 50+ segment will represent 60% of the national HIV-infected population.

HAVVACC just published jules levin’s at NATAP’s notes & links to recent abstracts from studies on frailties & multimorbititiies in HIVers & PWAs. it’s dry reading, but since i’ve got a good number of them myself, i thought i would show you how it works in a real-life person. (me.)