I have often relied on the kindness of people to help me live and survive in this harsh world. I left home at the age of 18 and having lived in the protective environment of defense community, the civil life...
A Girl Like Me
A Girl Like Me (AGLM), a program of The Well Project, is a blog where women across the gender spectrum can share their experiences and promote understanding of HIV. Millions of women around the globe are living with HIV, yet many feel they are alone in their disease and isolated in their day-to-day experiences. The goals of AGLM are to help normalize HIV; and to create a safe space for women living with HIV from around the world to speak out and share their experiences – with each other, and with those seeking a support community.
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In the world full of darkness, be the #LIGHT (Tamso ma jyotirgamay) Just like my name "Jyoti" A ray of light, the ray of hope Stop putting your hopes into hands of human beings. They make the same mistakes as...
I sometimes feel like the last 22 years or so I've been living on borrowed time. I guess that's why whenever I have any kind of health scare I kind of freak out a bit. It's sort of a post-traumatic...
Happy in my skin I found myself happy in my skin Loving me Knowing my worth Saying I am enough today Learning am not as bad as my condition Being happy with my curves Loving my smile Feeling my complexion...
I am so tired of HIV and AIDS! I hate to play victim and have a pity party cause I know it could be worse, but every time someone I care about in the community dies either cause they are...
My name is Courtney. I am 36 years old and from New Jersey. I am a single mom to a son who is 18 years old. I am paralegal for a family lawyer. I was diagnosed in April of 2011...
Going to AIDSWatch was a wonderful experience that I'm honored to have been a part of. It was a great learning opportunity that taught me a lot about meeting with your legislators in the nation's capital. I learned how a...
Why we cannot forget? I remember when I was first diagnosed with HIV I learned about being undetectable. I was so excited about the word in itself. It meant I almost didn’t have it. I had also read about the...
When we were children, we learned all kinds of things. We learned things as vastly different as our different cultures, but one thing that was pretty much universal, was coloring. Coloring was a way to teach us our lessons in...
About 10 years ago I sat in a dorm room playing the words the man said to me a few hours earlier, "Your HIV test came back positive". What did that even mean? All I could think at the time...
