Respectfully that ship has sailed. I've fought something bigger in the last 2+ years and found something even greater within myself. I don't like for people to whisper "HIV" to me- nah... say it with your chest. It's not a SITUATION, it's a diagnosis...
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Have you ever had a bone for science? I used to when I was growing up. I remember I used to want to be a scientist, I had so many questions about so many things and I wanted to know everything. I enjoyed running my little experiments to see what...
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Have you ever heard a doctor, advocate or friend say "you probably know someone living with HIV and you just don't know it"? People hiding in plain sight. I've said that to people. It's a way to get them to consider HIV in a way they never have...
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When I applied to join the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), I had little faith that I would be chosen as I clearly have no scientific background or knowledge, like not even a little.
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4M Network of Mentor Mothers CIC (4M) is a unique peer-led program led by Black migrant women. We train women living with HIV across the UK as Mentor Mothers to provide psycho-social support to peers in their pregnancy journey and beyond.
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When friends whom I trusted stabbed me in the back; the friends whom I call my own started to distance away just because I didn't have money in my pockets; the friends whom I loved as "friends" took advantage of me...
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The virtual United States Conference on HIV/AIDS (USCHA) took place December 2 - 3, 2021 – and three members of The Well Project's Community Advisory Board were on the "ground" at the gathering. Read on for their unique perspectives on sessions of interest to our communities – as well as their blog articles retelling their personal experiences at the US's largest HIV community convening.
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Members of The Well Project's Community Advisory Board attended, presented, and reported their perspectives on the virtual US Conference on HIV/AIDS, December 2 - 3, 2021. Read on for summaries of presentations dealing with COVID-19 pandemic-related changes to HIV care and service delivery.
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Members of The Well Project's Community Advisory Board attended, presented, and reported their perspectives on the virtual US Conference on HIV/AIDS (USCHA), December 2 - 3, 2021. Read on for summaries of presentations related to the state of the US HIV epidemic.
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Members of The Well Project's Community Advisory Board attended, presented, and reported their perspectives on the virtual US Conference on HIV/AIDS, December 2 - 3, 2021. Read on for summaries of presentations related to quality of life for women and other people living with HIV.
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I think in the past month I've at least touched base with all five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance, but I feel like it's only been a preview of going through those stages again
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"Serodifferent relationship" and "mixed-status couple" are terms often used to describe a couple or relationship in which one partner is living with HIV and the other is not.
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The Women's Research Initiative on HIV/AIDS (WRI), a program of The Well Project, convened Fall WRI Virtual 2021: Research at the Intersection of HIV and Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health: Best Practices, Gaps, and Barriers on October 7-8, 2021. The meeting sought to comprehensively examine the intersection of HIV and women's sexual and reproductive health, a relatively underexplored area of HIV research.
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Are you stupid? Or are you dumb? What in the hell would possess you to breastfeed a new, precious, innocent life? Do you hate her or something?
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Para leer este blog en español, presione aquí. "I'm scared" I've lost count of the number of times I've heard that blunt phrase from people that I tell that I'm a seropositive woman. Hidden behind that phrase are cultural, social, collective issues...