Alan Brand 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦 @AlanBrand @PositivelyAlive

Positively Alive, Employee Wellness Consultant, Trainer, Author, Speaker, HIV Support network

[Alan Brand 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦 @AlanBrand @PositivelyAlive @Alan_Brand]

Incredible speech one humanity needs right now. Listen ask and be inquisitive. Be slow to judge you might just learn something that might broaden your narrative of the world of the persons and their beliefs. We might just learn to be more tolerant of others.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

OMG everyone needs to listen up this young Harvard Graduate’s Speech because this young man is going to make a difference in this World & how we as humans see others no matter what their background is.This literally brought me to tears because of what is happening in the World.

[Alan Brand 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦 @AlanBrand @PositivelyAlive @Alan_Brand]

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[Alan Brand 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦 @AlanBrand @PositivelyAlive @Alan_Brand]

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[Alan Brand 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦 @AlanBrand @PositivelyAlive @Alan_Brand]

Join me every month for an open discussion all things HIV related. On the 1st Tuesday of every month at 18H00 SAST on the @octoberhealth app.

[Alan Brand 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦 @AlanBrand @PositivelyAlive @Alan_Brand]

@DrMShujat A really stunning question which used to be part of my HIV training module its so obscure that it seldom came up in discussion during training it was just a fact shared under blood to blood transmission and that was that. Stunning question.

[SAHPRA @SAHPRA1]

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[🇺🇸🇺🇸DADA🇺🇲🇺🇲 @BredsguardDalen]

This right here. Everytime, you can't escape it. 🤣🤣

[Alan Brand 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦 @AlanBrand @PositivelyAlive @Alan_Brand]

@BredsguardDalen Oh my our scotties are exactly like that

[Alan Brand 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦 @AlanBrand @PositivelyAlive @Alan_Brand]

@Carenlouisefalc @HellenZille The very reason the DA lost my vote and why this attitude and lack of moral compass will continue to do so.

[Alan Brand 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦 @AlanBrand @PositivelyAlive @Alan_Brand]

Subject Topic: Understanding the Immune system and the impact that HIV has on immune health. After this session participants will gain a basic understanding of how ARV therapy has changed HIV into a chronic managable disease. Find this session on the October Health App.

[Alan Brand 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦 @AlanBrand @PositivelyAlive @Alan_Brand]

Join me for the October Health Monthly HIV Support Group on the 5 May at 18H00 SAST.

[Alan Brand 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦 @AlanBrand @PositivelyAlive @Alan_Brand]

Your Invited: As April is a spiritually rich month across many traditions: Easter, Passover, Ramadan, Vaisakhi and Buddhist New Year and more, the discussion topic in April: "Faith, Spirituality & Meaning. Finding your spiritual path to living Positively Alive with HIV."

[Alan Brand 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦 @AlanBrand @PositivelyAlive @Alan_Brand]

@Manikipi Utter rubbish the bank provides a space and the DOH staff alone (not bank staff) work in these offices. Visit at least one bank home affairs office before shooting off your mouth with utter bull.

[Alan Brand 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦 @AlanBrand @PositivelyAlive @Alan_Brand]

A world of people suffering from chemophobia. A good read.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

I’m a chemist. I need to say this - because it’s getting dangerous out there. The biggest health myth in the world isn’t about vaccines.

Or GMOs. Or fluoride.

It’s the root of all of them.
It’s called chemophobia - and it’s killing science.

Fear of “chemicals” now drives vaccine rejection, GMO bans, food hysteria, and entire political movements.

From tampons to tap water, people have been taught to fear chemistry - the very thing that keeps us alive.

Chemophobia tells us:
“Natural is good.”
“Synthetic is bad.”

That’s a lie.

Botulinum toxin is 100% natural and one of the deadliest molecules known.

Aspirin is synthetic and life-saving.

We’ve gone from banning harmful substances for good reason…to banning safe, well-tested molecules for emotional reasons.

You’ve seen the slogans:

“If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.”
“Paraben-free.”
“Clean beauty.”

They sound empowering. But they’re not science - they’re marketing.

And they’re making the world dumber, poorer, and sicker.

Your body doesn’t care if a molecule comes from a plant or a lab.
Vitamin C is vitamin C.

Formaldehyde is formaldehyde and your body makes more of it every day than any vaccine ever could.

Dose matters. Source doesn’t.
This fear isn’t harmless.

It shapes public policy.
It blocks innovation.
It raises food prices.
It slows down cancer treatments.

Chemophobia is now mainstream and it’s costing lives.

Scientists aren’t losing because we’re wrong. We’re losing because fear spreads faster than facts.

Because influencers sell fear for clicks. Because lawyers monetize doubt.

And because scientists are too tired to fight back. So here’s my message, as a chemist and as a citizen:

Learn how toxicology works.
Call out chemical fear-mongering.
Support policies based on evidence, not emotion.

Chemistry isn’t the enemy.
It’s the reason you have clean water, safe food, and modern medicine.

If we let fear win, we lose all of it.

[Alan Brand 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦 @AlanBrand @PositivelyAlive @Alan_Brand]

We are but one planet

[Saganism @Saganismm]

Hi everyone, please spare a few minutes to watch this.

We Are One Planet by Carl Sagan

Credit: PSNy2kUK/YouTube

[Alan Brand 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦 @AlanBrand @PositivelyAlive @Alan_Brand]

@A_C_D_P I am sorry but this statement is utter bull. USA withdrew from negotiation not Iran.

[Katyayani Shukla @aibytekat]

I told my therapist,

"I have everything I thought I wanted, but I still don't feel happy."

She didn't give me comfort.
Hearing her, my whole body went still.

Here's what she just replied:

[Alan Brand 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦 @AlanBrand @PositivelyAlive @Alan_Brand]

@RefilweSeboko Dam great question I did know all that. One's never too old to learn thanks

[Alan Brand 🏳️‍🌈🇿🇦 @AlanBrand @PositivelyAlive @Alan_Brand]

Invitation to join the October Health monthly HIV Support Group open to all who are affected by HIV. If you care for someone with HIV your welcome. This month's discussion will include having a positive mind set and building resilience, tools to living Positively Alive with HIV.