Livvie Avrick

Aging looks different for everyone, but for LGBTQ+ individuals and people living with HIV, aging comes with a unique set of challenges and unknowns. For example, many LGBTQ+ older adults don’t have the same family support network as heterosexual older adults. Their chosen family is likely aging alongside them, and senior living homes often don’t provide culturally responsive care, making social isolation a determining factor in their health and well-being.

Have you heard about the only FDA-approved time machine, Narcan? Optimal time-travel window is six minutes after an overdose. Time travel tips include tilting the person’s head back while providing support under the neck and gently inserting the tip of the nozzle into one nostril and pressing the plunger firmly (see full instructions here). Of course, nasal naloxone (also known as Narcan) wasn’t designed to be a time machine – it’s an opioid overdose reversal drug.

Through teaching at various schools, Will has found that young people know the least about HIV compared to other STIs. The sex ed curriculum that Will teaches and helped developed through the Lurie Children Hospital’s program focuses on breaking down the stigma around HIV and teaching youth about PrEP and PEP. “Young people seem to have the idea that HIV is not manageable,” said Will.