"I've learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave person is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."- Madiba When I moved to Chicago a little over two years ago, I chose to disclose my...
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As I sat with my wife, Lisa, and watched Dallas Buyers Club, I was like 'wow! what wonderful actors!' They really did a good job! And it was part of history. I lived through most of that in those times when this condition was known as GRID, or a...
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Please join us on Monday, March 10, 2014 at 10:00 am ET for the webinar, " The Well Project: An Online Global Community of Support and Information for Women Living with HIV" on National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day! Pre-register now! You...
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New year, and already I’m a month behind! Haven’t been to choir practice, didn't make any resolutions and now, January, my daughter's 16 th and my birthday have passed, and I’m 47 yet still trying to grow up and find my place. I started an e-course...
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This is me in one of the worst times of my life...a lost girl around 15 years old, a gang member, a thug! I hated myself! There are really no pics of my past. I am not a single particle of that girl anymore...she suffered! She was in pain! She would...
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‘Read all about it...’ plays on the radio ‘How old was she, the girl that sang that?' my daughter asks. ‘I’m not sure 23...24’ my reply was not about by Emieli Sande, but a beautiful, brave young woman that stood alone when JOYFUL NOISE first sang at...
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February 19, 2014 - Brooklyn, NY. The Well Project, a premier resource for information about women and HIV, today announced the launch of its new website ( www.thewellproject.org), featuring improved functionality, broader global access, and increased social connectivity. The new website was developed in consultation with The Well Project’s community advisory board, an international group of women living with HIV.
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The Women’s Collective is a leading community health and human service agency that provides prevention, care, and support services and advocates for the health and human rights of girls and women.
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Black Health's mission is to educate, mobilize, and empower black leaders to meet the challenge of fighting HIV/AIDS and other health disparities in their local communities.
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Here is my bilingual video blog about the my HIV International Group and VIH Grupo Internacional on Facebook: International group for people infected and affected by HIV AIDS in English Grupo internacional para personas infectadas y afectadas en...
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"I wish" those two words hold so much for me. I wish I could, I wish I was, I wish they would, I wish I hadn't. Sometimes I wish the last few years were just a dream. That the pain, hurt, abuse, loss, failure was just a part of a big elaborate dream...
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January 22, 2014 - Brooklyn, NY. The Well Project, a premier resource for information about women and HIV, today announced the addition of three new board members to its board of directors: Judith Auerbach, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Kyeh Kim, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), and Karen Wirth, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill.
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The U.S. Women and PrEP Working Group is a national ad-hoc advocacy coalition monitoring, exploring and advocating around key issues for women with regard to domestic HIV prevention research and implementation.
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The ATHENA Network (ATHENA) is a global network of individual and institutional members that has been at the forefront of ensuring the centrality of gender equality and human rights in the HIV response since 2006.
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I do have to say how dismayed I am to see how bad the stigma in healthcare is...I have been at my current job for a very short time. Most of the employees are fine if you are HIV+ and need help...