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This week I 'hacked' the #hiv2020online instagram account for 24 hours. I decided to share my 18 years journey of living with HIV in 18 posts on their storyline. Here you see 2 of them and soon you will see...

My Fears, Loss, and Anxiety of Facing Two Pandemics and the Triggers Many of Us Have Been Facing From the Early Days of HIV and AIDS I don't know where to start. I have so much to write about and...

Today I cried. In unison with my newly born son and toddling daughter. I sat right there on the corner of the couch and I cried, weeped even- inconsolable, exhausted, unusually heavy. In between the weeps was a chant coming...

October 23, 2020 1:30 PM ET | 10:30 AM PM via National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project (NATAP) Speaker [[{"fid":"4301","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"default"}},"attributes":{"style":"height: 177px; width: 150px; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; float: left;","class":"media-element file-default","data-delta":"1"}}]]Monica Gandhi, MD Professor of Medicine and Medical Director, Ward 86 HIV Clinic, University of California, San Francisco

Took a leap of faith and moved to Philadelphia last Monday. It the middle of a pandemic . I decided to pack up my home and place my things in storage and start all over again. I wanted to move...

It's been awhile since I've put my words together for you to read! Covid has really put a damper on things and stripped me of my desire to do anything. Well the universe, God, whatever you believe in, has a...

Dear specialists of all my fabulous diseases, My life has been quite a rollercoaster the past weeks, so in this blog I would like to express myself and share what I have learned. The problem started 5 years ago when...

I've lived with severe depression and anxiety for most of my life, so it's not at all anything new to me, but what I've been going through this past year seems so much stronger than anything I've ever experienced before...

I was making tacos last night (I make amazing tacos by the way), and I had the thought that I wished I was making them for someone else. Cooking for someone else. Almost simultaneously realized how lonely I am. It...

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