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POZ is a media brand and community platform that has served people living with HIV since 1994. What began as a print magazine during the heart of the AIDS crisis has become one of the most trusted online resources for HIV news, health information, community stories, and treatment updates.

POZ covers breaking news in HIV research and policy, profiles people living with HIV across many walks of life, and maintains an active reader community. The site includes an HIV treatment tracker, a directory of local HIV services, dating resources for people living with HIV, and personal essays from people navigating life with a positive diagnosis.

For people who have just been diagnosed, are navigating long-term life with HIV, or simply want a community that understands, POZ offers a space where HIV-positive people are centered rather than discussed. The tone is frank, affirming, and deeply human. It is one of the few LGBTQ-adjacent media properties that has existed long enough to hold the community’s history across multiple eras of the epidemic.