Many transgender people come to the US to escape violence or persecution in the country where they were born only to have similar problems in the United States. It is hard at times for trans immigrants in the United States...
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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Hi Everyone, My name is Christina and I am 39 years old. I am from a small town in South Central Kentucky. Born and raised in this area and being different affected my life at and early age. Most are...
Definitivamente el momento en el cual nos confirman el diagnóstico es el más difícil. El mundo se derrumba, las fuerzas que creías tener se te acaban de repente, todo se vuelve oscuro aun siendo un día de magnífico sol. Nadie...
The Press, supress, our stories of happiness. They try to define us, as “Suffering Headliners”. No one writes when the virus has refined us, Given us gratitude, a loving attitude. The media just want to, undermine us. They concentrate on...
To live with HIV is to live with advice on curing it. I remember the first time this happened to me in October of 2001 when I was just released from a hospital in southern Indiana, newly diagnosed with HIV...
Sometimes, I just have to take a break as an HIV Educator & Tester, and reassess Life! I feel like we are losing people at an all-time high, but as an HIV Educator & Tester I find that there are...
This has been an Exciting month so far... I'm almost bursting at the seams… lol. February 18th I began another HIV/AIDS clinical trial at NIH in which I'll be back every three months for further testing. Anything that I can...
Results: HIV 0 Me 1 As I type the score, I want to share it’s not a competition, or a game, but definitely a victory! I wrote a blog before about my fear and worry, when waiting for my counts...
This was a text message I received from a participant in a training which I facilitated in 2005. It was a telecommunication peer educator training for staff. It reads: Always, once in each generation of the human race, we normally...
Being an advocate can at times be overwhelming, frustrating, and emotionally draining. Society is forever taking shots especially when it comes to those who fully disclose. The emails, messages, comments from others make you question why you allow yourself to...
