Recently, I had the extreme pleasure of attending the 2023 Motown Experience: Birth & Breastfeeding Conference hosted by the Black Mothers' Breastfeeding Association in Detroit, MI.
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A new study shows positive health outcomes for three living kidney transplant donors with HIV – including A Girl Like Me blogger Nina Martinez, the first-ever US person living with HIV to donate a kidney to another person living with HIV.
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The mission of the Southern AIDS Coalition (SAC) is to end the HIV and STI epidemics in the South by promoting accessible and high-quality systems of [HIV and STI] prevention, treatment, care, housing, and essential support services.
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The last year and half has been so great to me in all aspects of my life and I think because I've felt so at peace for the first time since my diagnosis, I've gotten comfortable.
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Hello my lovely people. Some of us are always counting their age, forgetting to do the things that make them happy. Remember, there is no such thing as putting your life on hold, because we are all ageing, every day!
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I didn't want to write a harmful blog, but it's my duty. As the title says, the Republican Party is proposing an appropriation bill to cut significant HIV/AIDS funds.
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As I lay here 14 days after my fall at our neighborhood dog park- where I fractured both of my fibulas (leg bone connected to ankle)- yes, I wish I had a better story. Sadly I was not doing a new TikTok dance move or slamming a Pickleball shot! I was...
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HIV can teach us many things. Once you find out you have HIV, it will be a lifelong journey of medication. Along with medication, there are other ways we can live well with HIV. I talk to Bridgette from The Well Project about her experience. Living...
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"The Well Project is honest and true about connecting researchers and community members who are not necessarily research trained to work together and advance knowledge and its application by connecting in ways that a lot of people talk about, but don't actually make happen."
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Y'all I'm out here living 2020 in 2023... While y'all was stuck at home, looking cute up top and only wearing ya underwears or jammies under the table I was out EVERYDAY going to work cause Covid what? The jobs I held all throughout Covid quarantine...
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Support for parents living with HIV in the US has improved with updated federal guidance affirming informed, shared infant-feeding decision-making. The Well Project’s Olivia G. Ford writes for Positively Aware about five key entry points to the new HIV and infant feeding guidelines.
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So, I don't know if you know That I've been at this social media, advocacy thing for a little minute now. Probably bout, what, like 4 or 5 years or something like that? However long ago it was, I found social media at a time that my body only knew...
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¿En qué punto nos encontramos en la búsqueda de una cura para el VIH, por qué se está tardando tanto y dónde figuran las mujeres? Conozca las respuestas a estas y otras preguntas, incluidas las estrategias y las cuestiones éticas de la investigación actual sobre la cura.
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Hola. Mi nombre es Alessandra Blásquez. Fui diagnosticada en abril del 2004. A mí no me afectó mucho saber que era positiva porque ya sabía que existía medicamento...
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Hello. My name is Alessandra Blásquez. I was diagnosed in April of 2004. I wasn't that worried when I learned I was HIV positive because I knew I could be treated.