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Whether you’re living with HIV, supporting a friend or loved one, or an ally looking to learn, you belong here. Explore information, stories, and resources for living well, supporting others, and building understanding.
Created by Kevin — a person living with HIV for 16+ years.
Tampa Bay, FL. Here for a wider community.
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Start with what matters to you.
Fourteen hubs. Many ways in. Find an answer, explore a story, or take a step toward the support you need.
Newly Diagnosed
A new diagnosis comes with questions. Find information and support for your next steps.
Start hereLearning Hub
145 articles and guides on HIV, history, health, and the people behind the progress.
Read at your own paceFind Care
Browse Florida listings and nationwide care resources.
ExploreTreatment
Understand treatment options, viral load, and conversations with your care team.
ExplorePrevention
Explore testing, PrEP, PEP, U=U, and ways to look after your sexual health.
ExploreEducation
Build your understanding of HIV with clear explanations and useful context.
ExploreWellness
Make room for mental health, relationships, aging, and everyday well-being.
ExploreCommunity
Find people, organizations, events, and opportunities to connect.
ExploreDaily Message
Pause for a short reflection on living, learning, and moving forward.
ExploreVoices Rising
Read lived experiences, share your story, or honor someone you love.
ExplorePledge
Stand with people living with HIV and help challenge stigma.
ExplorePolicy
Understand the decisions that affect HIV funding, access, and rights.
ExploreCommon Questions
Explore 150 searchable answers on HIV, care, costs, and everyday life.
ExploreShare Facts
Pass along visual HIV education cards to inform your own community.
ExploreNational in scope, with a deep Florida focus. About 1.2 million people in the United States are living with HIV, and roughly 1 in 8 do not yet know it.[1]
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Care & support
Find HIV care in Florida
1,200+ HIV care & support listings across Florida
Search by ZIP code, browse a service, or use our nationwide search to continue to HIV.gov.
Why a Florida focus?
At the end of 2023, 128,497 people were living with HIV in Florida, and 4,725 people were newly diagnosed that year.[2] This directory brings care and support resources together to help people find a place to start.
From the Learning Hub
Further reading
Explore the science, the history, and the human side of HIV.
Science & research
The HIV Cure, in Plain Language
What cure and remission mean, what studies explore, and how to make sense of the headlines.
Read the articleHIV history
1996: The Year That Changed Everything
The treatment breakthrough, the people who lived through it, and the changes that followed.
Read the articleRelationships
HIV & Love Stories
Love, intimacy, and connection across different HIV statuses—and the place of U=U in those conversations.
Read the articleScience & everyday life
U=U Explained
Celebrate ten years of U=U: the science, the movement, and more freedom to live and love.
Read the articleAbout RiseUpToHIV · Community & Voices Rising
Built to last.
A dream 16 years in the making.
Education, community, and resources are at the heart of RiseUpToHIV. Independent, self-funded, and built in Tampa Bay, FL, the site grew from Kevin’s 16+ years of living with HIV and more than a decade of advocacy and community work.
What began as a Florida care locator has grown into a wider home for learning and connection. The community will help shape what comes next—through the stories people choose to share, the questions they ask, and the feedback that guides future versions. Our Policy hub supports nonpartisan learning and self-advocacy, with links to organizations leading broader campaigns.
- Founder of the No Shame About Being HIV+ campaign
- Founding steering committee member, Prevention Access Campaign
- 2012 ADAP Emerging Leader of the Year award recipient
Voices Rising
Your story belongs here.
From 2013 to 2017, the No Shame About Being HIV+ campaign invited people around the world to share their lives on their own terms. Voices Rising carries that invitation forward: a place for stories, memories, and perspectives that make this community our own.
Undetectable = Untransmittable. A person living with HIV who takes treatment as prescribed and maintains an undetectable viral load cannot sexually transmit HIV.[3] Across HPTN 052, PARTNER, and Opposites Attract, researchers recorded no linked transmissions from a partner with a durably suppressed viral load.[4]
Learn more about U=U →Independence & Disclosure: RiseUpToHIV takes no sponsorships, runs no ads, and has no affiliation with any clinic, government agency, or pharmaceutical company. Read the full disclaimer.
October community preview · A thank-you from Kevin
Help shape RiseUpToHIV.
Tell us what’s helpful, what could be clearer, and what you’d like to see next. Your perspective helps this community grow.
We’ll offer a T-shirt to up to 20 contributors whose suggestions we select for site improvements. Share by October 31; selections follow November 1, with delivery targeted for mid-to-late November.
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References & Sources
- HealthCare.gov. Enrollment dates and deadlines: November 1, 2026–January 15, 2027 for 2027 coverage; enroll by December 15 for a January 1 start. CMS confirmed the window in its August 4, 2026 statement. Checked October 2, 2026.
- HIV.gov, U.S. Statistics. https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/statistics. ↩
- Florida Department of Health, State of the HIV Epidemic 2023. https://www.floridahealth.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/StateofHIVEpidemic2023.pdf. ↩
- CDC, “Undetectable = Untransmittable.” https://www.cdc.gov/global-hiv-tb/php/our-approach/undetectable-untransmittable.html. ↩
- NIH, “The science is clear: with HIV, undetectable equals untransmittable.” https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/science-clear-hiv-undetectable-equals-untransmittable. ↩