The week of March 6 – March 10, 2021 I had the privilege of attending the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). This was my first time attending this conference, a conference made up of researchers, scientists, community members, and others.

I love being a woman! At this age and with all I've lived and learned, I love being a woman more and more!

I just attended my first CROI (Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections). It was also my first virtual conference and my first conference since the quarantine apocalypse began

I'm María Natalia Sáenz Agudelo. Seropositive woman, a " veiacheicera", to use a pretty word that a close friend of mine invented. Woman! Wonderfully woman!

Today is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD), a very important day for us women living with the human condition of HIV.

Why do many of us still underestimate the value we bring, why do we struggle to embrace our unique feminine leadership strengths, and why do we remain silent and let our rights be violated?

The hardest war ever fought is against self. That's all in the book. If it wasn't for AIDS, where would I be?

Dear Advocate, 2021, so far, has been a year of focusing on me and choosing me above all else. Too often I have dimmed my light and emptied my cup for the needs of others.

resilient: (of a substance or object) able to recoil or spring back into shape after bending, stretching or being compressed.

As I shared in Rollercoaster, as a long term diabetes survivor, I have been dealing with many health challenges alongside HIV during the difficult year 2020.