A Girl Like Me

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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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Hi everyone! I have something to let you all know about being proactive in your HIV care. True enough HIV is no longer a death sentence, but it is a life sentence. If you are not aware of the medication...

Yesterday I posted to my Facebook page… "People try to shame me for living with HIV, FUCK I’M NOT THE ONE SPREADING IT. I am safer than all the other men and women you are with. Test, ladies, because the...

I grieve publicly because I am too old to do it alone. Then again It could be just me… Sometimes, just sometimes when I despise being able to hear, see and feel, when I am unable to disable my senses...

Attending the IAS Durban and Women Now! Summit, 2016 has been quite informative for me, and as an advocate and Global Ambassador of the Well Project, again it was overly enriching and has better equipped me to give excellent service...

Identity and self-expression… No one should have to defend their identity... Do you wake up with a positive attitude? Perhaps not like I do. I wake up wondering how others see and perceive my identity. I wonder whether others see...

As I continue to learn myself, I continue to grow as an individual thus becoming more available as an advocate for HIV. I was picking and choosing the people I would be honest with and whom I would speak to...

My Name Is Sophie Jayawardene and this is my story. It could have been a normal day where I do normal chores. In actual fact it was a normal day despite a call I got from my GP in early...

Today I want to write to those not living with HIV. I want you to know that we exist, that our diagnosis does not define us. We have the same dreams, the same desires, but for some reason our life...

It's great to be here. I been thinking there is so much to share. Instead today I want to share what I have been chasing. And what I have been chasing is we all have the tools in us all...

A very Real Conversation with my mother and aunt about HIV and how they dealt with my disclosure, stigma and the death sentence HIV was in those times… To watch Maria's video blog, click here.