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Adam Levin

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“I have no idea how long I’ve been HIV-positive but I have had AIDS for the past two years.” Adam Levin quote on the cover of Aidsafari
Adam Levin is a South African author, journalist and fashion guru. He's also white, gay, and has HIV/AIDS. His third book, Aidsafari, is an autobiography in which he discusses, very frankly, his status and the trials of living with AIDS. According to an article on aegis.com, “South Africa: Contrasting HIV-positive lives”, Levin’s book discusses how “he experienced life-threatening opportunistic infections and debilitating side-effects from the medication . . . was bedridden for months, tortured by nerve pains in his feet, lost his hair and teeth, required dentures at 35, had tuberculosis, cancer, chemotherapy, a catheter in his urethra, and even more unpleasant conditions that make some chapters difficult to read.” He is the winner of two Mondi Gold Awards for Journalism.
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The project is jointly managed by the Anova Health Institute and the Journalism and Media Studies Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand, and supported by the Health Communication Partnership based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Centre for Communication Programmes and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS relief through the United States Agency for International Development under terms of Award No. JH/HESA-02-05.

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