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Wisconsin AIDS activists, youth hiv/aids educators and long-term survivors-Bob Bowers-Madison, Wisconsin-United States

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Madison, Wisconsin HIV/AIDS awareness, youth HIV/AIDS education, prevention, AIDS activism, advocacy by Bob Bowers One Tough Pirate-United States

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Wisconsin based youth HIV/AIDS educator, AIDS activist & long-term survivor Bob Bowers, One Tough Pirate, also known simply as "Da Pirate." Bob been living with and surviving HIV/AIDS for 25 years. Bob started as an HIV positive speaker 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 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 its HIV/AIDS awareness poster contest, "What if it Were You?" Mr. Bowers is a leading and well respected AIDS advocate and leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS. As a 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.
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

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HIV Positive speaker Bob Bowers speaking at Linn Benton Community College in Albany, Oregon
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Thank you so much. Can I tell you that I am in awe of your strength. I love to hear that the good fight is being fought with such courage. It's good to know people like you are out there.
 
Video from our AIDS awareness poster contest at Edgewood High School in Madison, Wisconsin. Congratulations to Lizzie Grams and Rewais Hanna for creating such incredible posters
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Keep it up Bob. Saying you were a hero of mine would sound corny but its valid. You take the world by the balls but you do it with life it's awesome man.

~ Spencer

 

I just want you to know that i am not affected by hiv/aids and don't know anyone who is. But this website is the most amazing one i have ever seen. What you do is just incredible...so keep on living and doing what you do...inspire as many as you can...so they can carry on your legacy. Your family should be so proud of you.

~ Adria

 

 
 
 
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I love to see such positivity just oozing out....you're reminding me that people can be amazing....

~ Shelly
 
You had a really good presentation today i learned a lot. just keep doing what your doing!

~ Seth
 

Let's make EVERY day World AIDS Day! There are over 33 million of our Brothers and Sisters living with HIV/AIDS. As the Campaign to END AIDS states, "we have the tools to END AIDS!" Where's the anger and urgency? Stop with the status quo and rhetoric! It's time to muster the political and collective will to once and for all eradicate the scourge of AIDS from our planet!
~ Bob Bowers

 
 

 

Youth HIV/AIDS educator Bob Bowers after speaking at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point for their World AIDS Day Ceremonies. UW-SP did a phenomenal job of bringing students and the community together for a very special evening!

 

 

It was a complete honor to present at Madison College (Madison Area Technical College-MATC) on HIV/AIDS.
Thank you to the Pride Alliance and United Common Ground for arranging the presentation, and to all who attended!

 
 

  I am genuinely honored to be part of the special POZ World AIDS Day supplement in the Washington Post. To view it, follow this link and click the link on the right "SPECIAL POZ SUPPLEMENT TO THE WASHINGTON POST" You can become a fan of POZ Magazine on Facebook: www.facebook.com/POZmagazine

HIVictorious and OTP are honored to support the One Campaign.

Click here to read Bob's letter to the Capital Times for World AIDS Day


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Your strength is an inspiration Bob! We're with you!

~ Tanya
 
Bob, you're just incredible! Thanks you so much for what you do. You touch so many lives for good!

~Sparky
 
I was at Sennett Middle School when you gave that presentation earlier this year. It was very moving. I hope to see one of your presentations at Lafollette High School.

~ Tarik

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Da Pirate returns to Camp Heartland in Malibu, Calfornia

 

Da Pirate at Camp Pacific Heartland or One Heartland in Malibu, California

 

It was beyond wonderful to volunteer again for Camp Pacific Heartland in Malibu, California!

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AIDS Walk Wisconsin raises $362,278 for the FIGHT against AIDS in Wisconsin!

 

 

Thank you to Team HIVictorious for your amazing efforts! Our team raised $2,600..00 for AIDS Walk Wisconsin! THANKS to our incredible
friends and family for supporting HIVictorious' efforts of youth HIV/AIDS prevention through education, advocacy and awareness!
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AIDS activist and youth HIV/AIDS educator-Bob Bowers-Madison, Wisconsin-United States

 

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Hi Bob,

I wanted you to know that your presentation meant a lot to me. Sometimes a medical student, including myself, loses focus as to why s/he is there at medical school. We're bogged down with so much studying of facts, figures, body parts, and physiology that we forget that we chose this profession because we wanted to help people, our fellow human beings. I, myself, was lost in all of my studying at the UW and forgot the necessary and absolutely essential human face of medicine. And you, Bob, brought me back. You reminded me that I came to medical school to help people such as yourself and to serve as a patient advocate so that everyone has access to medical care and receives the respect and kindness they deserve. So thank you for coming to speak and saying the things you did because your words need to be heard by everyone and used as motivation to act. In a way, you're a soldier of hope, fighting our ignorance, complacency, fear, and doubt and filling us with hope that people can change, our perceptions can change, and that we will succeed in taking care of each other, one person at a time.

Nathaniel Chin
UW-Madison Medical Student

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At the end of 2003, an estimated 1,039,000 to 1,185,000 persons in the United States were living with HIV/AIDS. CDC estimates that 56,300 new HIV infections occurred in the United States in 2006

 
   

Youth HIV/AIDS educator Bob Bowers at La Follette High School in Madison, Wisconsin-GO LANCERS!

 

1 in 4 young women between the ages of 14 and 19 in the United States, 3.2 million teenage girls, are infected with at least one of the most common sexually transmitted infections -- human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, herpes simplex virus, and trichomoniasis.

 

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 HIV positive speaker Bob Bowers doing youth AIDS education at Memorial High School in Madison, Wisconsin

 

I just wanted to say...THANK YOU :)...for coming to speak with my school (Sennett Middle School), I appreciated the time and effort you put into talking to us about HIV/AIDS awareness, Your story truly touched me, and you're a blessing to all of us :)

Sincerely,
-Capriana Copus
 
Dear Bob,

You not only supplied us with valuable information, you supplied us with inspiration and I am so very happy to know that there are positive people such as yourself that are spreading such important messages in this world. Not since reading The Diary of Anne Frank as a young girl has one person's life story touched such a heartstrings in me and inspired me to enjoy life to it's fullest. I'll be sure and come back and visit the web page often so I can stay updated on the life of Da Pirate. Take care and bless you!

Very Sincerely,
Jennifer

 

AIDS education and awareness of the disease are vital to help stop the spread of HIV
Every hour of every day, two youth are newly infected with HIV

 
   

It was an honor to speak again at Memorial High School in Madison, Wisconsin. As a long-time youth HIV/AIDS educator, Memorial has become
one of my favorite schools to speak at! I look forward to presenting for your school in the future!

 

 

 
 
   

Bob Bowers with his great nieces and nephew in Oregon

 

Bob Bowers aka Da Pirate-AIDS awareness, education, activism, advocacy and prevention in Wisconsin and the United States

Bob, your such an inspiration to me! Peace be with you brother!  ~Rob

 
 
 

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 "What if it Were You?" poster contest and AIDS awareness campaign. HIVictorious' President Bob Bowers  and Collin Burke who won round two
of the poster contest, stand proudly in front of our bus ad to promote every day awareness of HIV/AIDS in Madison, Wisconsin

 

HIV/AIDS awareness poster by:
Maddie Meier from Edgewood High School

HIV/AIDS awareness poster contest providing youth education and involvement in the fight against AIDS

 

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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 26 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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