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via Iris House Iris House: A Center for Women Living with HIV, Inc., is now accepting Workshop Proposals Abstracts for our annual two-day Women as the Face of AIDS Summit. Monday, May 8, 2017 will provide educational and networking opportunities...

"He tried to erase me in one fell swoop. Make my existence not even worthy of a footnote or postscript." These are the words I wanted to scream as I searched the White House page on Friday, January 20, 2017...

Yesterday I found out someone I knew who was HIV positive committed suicide. You see HIV not only tries to destroy the body but it tries to destroy the mind and its emotional stability!!! This is why many of us...

January 19, 2017 12 noon PST / 2pm CST / 3pm EST via HIVE Women in San Francisco began being offered PrEP in 2010. Champions across the city have now made PrEP a possibility for many women. Hear from panelists...

Connect With Me...... People need people to talk to; they need people they can open their hearts to; people need people to hold hands and feel strong; they need people who can hold them and let them cry. I am...

January 17, 2017 5:30 - 7:00 PM EST | 2:30 - 4:00 PM PST via PWN-USA At the 2016 PWN Speak Up Summit in Ft. Walton Beach, white women living with HIV committed to study and challenge racism, within ourselves...

What more can I say? When I step into the room, I hear the whispers. I hope she is not going to talk about HIV/AIDS or ask me if I’ve been tested! I just ignore them and know in my...

Hey everyone, HAPPY NEW YEAR… I’m Janelle Luster born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, 24 years old, I was diagnosed in March of 2012. At the time that I was diagnosed my house caught fire (my closet...

January 10, 2017 10 - 11am PT | 1 - 2pm ET via Black AIDS Institute Every second Tuesday of the month at 10AM PDT, the Black AIDS Institute will broadcast a webinar on a topic related to a quarterly...

Being an activist I know is one way to really stir things up and get things done. I was so happy when I was surrounded by my many sisters at The Summit in Fort Walton Beach this year. I felt...