Regan Hofmann, editor-in-chief of POZ magazine and POZ.com, has been a national leader in promoting HIV/AIDS awareness and education ever since she appeared on the April 2006 cover of POZ. In that issue, Hofmann disclosed her HIV-positive status publicly for the first time since her diagnosis in 1996. In her blog, which she updates about once a week, she discusses various issues associated with HIV/AIDS, including the criminalization of people living with HIV and politics involving the disease, in order to advance HIV/AIDS awareness in ways that do not only deal with the straight facts about the disease. She also blogs about the various HIV/AIDS events that she attends.