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Peer Education Program of Los Angeles-PEP/LA-Youth HIV/AIDS peer education by Wendy Arnold and friends

HIV positive speaker, AIDS activist, youth HIV/AIDS education by long-term survivor Bob Bowers Da Pirate-Madison, Wisconsin-United States

HIV positive speaker-Wisconsin & United States

 
 
Wendy Arnold and Muzungu
 
Mad love for Wendy Arnold aka "Da Rev"-2005
 

I can't even put into words how deeply I love and admire Wendy Arnold! She single handedly has inspired me to want to do more to help those living with HIV/AIDS as well as to empower myself! Wendy or more affectionately "Da Rev"  is a role model and inspiration for all. I can't imagine my life without ever stepping foot into my first Peer Education Program of Los Angeles (PEP/LA) meeting. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your tireless efforts to help those living with HIV as well as to prevent teens from around the world from being infected with HIV! I cherish, adore and respect you tremendously Rev!

Thank you Wendy!

 
 

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Photo of Bob Bowers and Wendy Arnold-World AIDS Day 2000-Los Angeles, California

 

 

   

Wendy Arnold and and Bob Bowers aka Da Pirate reunited in 2006-West Los Angeles

 

"There is no distance too far between best friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart."

 

 
 

 

Please visit PEP/LA's (Peer Education Program of Los Angeles) official website to learn more about this amazing woman and international program

 
Adult female Yellow Labrador Retriever-Safari's Muzungu

Wendy's true love, Muzungu

 

AIDS Life Cycle 8 -  A request from my dear friend Liana

Please donate to Liana and help her efforts in the FIGHT against HIV/AIDS

 

For those of you that know me, you may not know that while living in Los Angeles I became close to a man named Bob Bowers.

Bob Bowers AIDS activist and Youth HIV/AIDS educator-Madison, Wisconsin-United States

That's our Bob!

Bob was the first person with AIDS that I had ever gotten to know, and also one of the first recorded cases of HIV in the country.

Bob changed the face of AIDS for me, and countless other students he was working with. He respected us enough to expect us to be the change for AIDS. He was strong, honest, totally bad ass! and always down to earth.

I'm not riding because Bob continues to thrive 25 years after being diagnosed; I'm riding because for 25 years he has given hope, strength, and empowerment to thousands upon thousands of people. Living with HIV, AIDS or not. Thank you, Bob. You taught me that there is something I can do about it.

Because of his influence I went on to complete three AIDS Walk LA events, two March of Dimes marathons, and two Breast Cancer awareness runs.

So, as a graduation gift to myself, I'm bicycling in AIDS/LifeCycle 8 from May 31-June 6, 2009. Crazy, right? I've never done anything like this before. It's a 7-day, 545-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles. I'm using most weekends until May to train for it. My goal is to raise $5,000 dollars for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

Please spread the word to help me reach my goal! Feel free to send this link to anyone and everyone you know.

http://www.tofighthiv.org/goto/Liana

 
 
 

   

   

Photo of our adult male Yellow Labrador Retriever-Safari's Rafiki Bowers

 
 
 
Bob Bowers HIV/AIDS survivor-AIDS activist and advocate-News page
 
 
AIDS documentary The Fire Within rent it on NetFlix
AIDS Documentary-The Fire Within

View the film trailer to the
feature length AIDS documentary on long-term HIV/AIDS survivor Bob Bowers

"The Fire Within"

Click to purchase the DVD from August Moon Entertainment

 
 
HIV positive speaker and AIDS activist Bob Bowers, One Tough Pirate, also known simply as "Da Pirate," has been living with and surviving HIV/AIDS for 25 years. Bob started as a youth HIV/AIDS educator  with peer education programs in Los Angeles shortly after his diagnosis. To broaden his personal message of prevention through education, hope and awareness of the disease, Bob founded the nonprofit HIV/AIDS educational organization, HIVictorious, Inc. in 2005. HIVictorious addresses youth HIV/AIDS education and prevention and provides AIDS awareness in Madison, Wisconsin and throughout the United States through Bob's public speaking and it's AIDS awareness poster contest, "What if it Were You?" Mr. Bowers long-term survivor of HIV/AIDS, and someone who has lost dozen of friends to AIDS, Bob is wholeheartedly committed to educating today's youth and young adults, about the realities of HIV/AIDS as well as living with AIDS long-term. Mr. Bowers is a champion for hope and survival despite some of the difficult circumstances that we ALL face in life.
 
"Compassion is our cure." ~Bob Bowers
 
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