pregnancy, HIV+ mothers, family

I am devastatingly tired. Today it is a weight pressing on my spirit. It is almost as if it's the only emotion I have room for.

When I was born April of 1985, there was no test, no way of treating it and very little information about what it was. All they knew was that HIV was a murderer.

Lynnea was born in Los Angeles California. She found out about her HIV status at the age of 7.

My name is Eliane. I am 43 years old and the mother of three children

Our journey to treatment adherence is just that; a journey. Everyone's journey does not look the same and that's ok.

I had an afterthought tonight. My son's father passed away about a month ago. We hadn't been together since 1984 so it wasn't hard to deal with, but it was sad because he was my first everything. The...

See, a girl like me, living in a cruel cold world…with little to no backbone support.

You only live once is a phrase we all hear a lot, though that's not true. The real statement is we only die once, but we live every day. In life some people believe in winning and losing, but me...

I was 26 years old. My children were 1 and 6 years old. I had recently ended a mentally and physically abusive relationship.

I was 11 years old when my mother and sister finally told me my mom had AIDS, my father had AIDS and I was born HIV+.