We’re back here on the Get Real Blog and first out of the gates for 2012 is a big hat’s off to the Government Information Service for its massive drive to fill the AIDS Food Bank! Love, Poetry & Music was an open mic concert and spoken word evening that brought a diverse cross section [...]

It’s World AIDS Day and the Live Up Team is celebrating five years in existence and charting a way forward! A tired but fulfilled Katrina asks what are YOU doing to Love. Protect & Respect ? Send her an email or a message on facebook! Onto another five years!

The Caribbean HIV Conference in Nassau, Bahamas is only days away and its open to everyone! Katrina encourages you to support the members of your community in their attendance at a conference that is aiming to change information into action. Building skills for tackling different aspects of HIV & AIDS, meeting people living with HIV, [...]

A mixed bag this week as Katrina looks back on Regional Testing Day 2011; a bit about ongoing Media Sensitization Workshops and a strange reaction from a famous Jamaican dancehall artiste!

Budhrani family receives Elton Jones Memorial Award [ Story compliments The Daily Herald St. Maarten] PHILIPSBURG–The awarding of the tenth annual Elton Jones Memorial Award to the Budhrani family for supporting the HIV/AIDS Red Ribbon campaign, the lighting of candles, dance and skit presentations, and a number of touching speeches highlighted the local 28th International [...]

Barbadian Journalist Katrina Marshall gives her impressions on ‘Rico’s Story’; a sad tale of stigma and discrimination in Barbados and a thought spared for people living with HIV amidst the revelry of a West Coast Carnival…  

Barbadian Journalist Katrina Marshall is moved by an HIV/AIDS play… disagrees with a friend over the HIV Positive T-Shirt campaign and says you can’t find ways around transmission based on myth…