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Playboy Playmate Reveals She's
HIV Positive In Advocate Cover Story
Playboy's Miss September 1986, Rebekka Armstrong, made headlines around the world when she revealed in a 1994 cover story for The Advocate magazine that she is HIV positive. In Rebekka's own words, she describes what it has been like living with HIV and AIDS, and why she has dedicated herself to preventing others from becoming infected.  (more...)
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Information About HIV and AIDS
Knowledge is Power! Get straight answers to your questions about HIV and AIDS; including how the virus is transmitted, what symptoms you may experience, opportunistic infections, types of HIV tests, and when and how to get tested.  (more...)
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Rebekka's Column
I feel different. It doesn’t matter how much outreach, activism, prevention or awareness work I do, I still feel different. I live with demons in my head that remind me how dirty and ashamed I really am. Somehow none of what I do will erase the fact that I have infected blood and I am different.  (more..)

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Rebekka Armstrong
AHF Saved My Life
Rebekka's image graces AIDS Healthcare Foundation billboards in Los Angeles
Tarleton University
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University of Idaho
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Media
A Model Example
Rebekka Armstrong, former Playboy Playmate turned HIV activist, talks to Polly Curtis about her journey from glamour girl to safer-sex educator
There are 40 teenagers waiting for Rebekka Armstrong to begin her talk in a youth centre in Stoke-on-Trent. Sitting on plastic chairs, arms crossed and chins tucked into their chests, quite what the 34-year-old former Playboy Playmate has to offer is clearly puzzling them. Armstrong is, in fact, here to talk about sex, and, more specifically, sexual boundaries in relation to her own Aids diagnosis. I am with her as part of a film crew led by the director Antonia Bird, best known for  (more...)
What People Are Saying
"I attended your 'lecture' today in the Florida Keys. I actually skipped class to go! (not that it's a good thing or anything, but I really wanted to go.) Your story was so inspiring to me! I've been talking with someone for about a year now and was seriously considering having sex with him for the first time (mine, not his) the next time I see him. We live about 5 hours away from each other. He's slept with so many people though, and thanks to your story, I think I'm going to wait and have a serious conversation with him about it. I don't want to get HIV/AIDS or any other STD. Thank you so much for opening my eyes. You're truly an inspiration to all women."
Junior, Marathon High School  
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