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I recently spent nine days and eight nights along the Florida Panhandle coastline... I had returned to Ft. Walton Beach, Florida for the second SPEAK UP! Summit.

Twenty years ago Mom was preparing to get me into hospice care cause we all thought I was going to die from AIDS complications. Well I pulled through and now feeling good and doing so much better, except I'm always tired. I was blessed to see my son...

Connecting women with HIV/AIDS prevention, support, resources, and advocacy

I named this blog "Back to Back" as a wordplay on Drake's "Back to Back," as I literally went to two conferences back to back.

God has always been my caretaker. And my faith has never been challenged.

attend many conferences, but the USCA is one of my favorites! The atmosphere is so welcoming to advocates, yet incorporates a professional component, as well.

Mi nombre es Arianna Lint y soy la Directora Ejecutiva de una organización de promoción trans y de servicios "Arianna's Center." Llevo muchos sombreros

My name is Arianna Lint and I am the Executive Director of a local trans advocacy and service organization Arianna's center. I wear many hats

Thinking about my story. What really is my story? I grew up in Chicopee, Mass. I have my GED. I have a daughter, I buried a son, I was a dancer for 12 years, and have had my battles with self, life, love, etc.

I am home from the United States Conference on AIDS, and I’m reflecting over how not only was it my first USCA, but it provided me innumerable and invaluable opportunities to expound upon my advocacy. I arrived earlier in the week so that I could...

I am Woman #5 of a unique group of HIV positive women who have been identified as HIV Controllers or Long Term Non-Progressors.

Is there something about me that suggests that I am a peacock? Definitely, even then you could not miss that I was brought up to be a proud woman.

After reading Tiommi Luckett's blog It's Time for Change I was not even a bit surprised. Yet this brings much concern to me about how all of us living with HIV, no matter our undetectable status, our being on meds, taking our health serious and yet...

Marriage is hard work that requires two hands to clap. Right now one hand is paralysed. The one-sided relationship is not what I term as a "relationship". It's more like a person labouring hard, hoping and waiting, draining out all the energy just...

Saben por años y años le he preguntado a mis médicos la misma pregunta? Por qué, si soy indetectable por 17 años ya y todos estos años, mis cd4s nunca se aumentan a niveles buenos? Hago todo lo humanamente posible para subirlos! Soy adherente, no uso...