Review the list of conditions, including opportunistic infections, that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers AIDS-defining conditions.
What is HIV? Get basic information on HIV, its symptoms, how it is spread, how HIV differs from AIDS, and how getting tested for HIV can help.
Race matters when it comes to HIV – and not just for women of color. Learn about differences in HIV rates by race and why these differences exist.
What is "Undetectable Equals Untransmittable" (U=U) — and what does it mean for women living with HIV? Learn more about this groundbreaking discovery, and the worldwide campaign to spread the word about it.
Race and gender intersect with many factors in the lives of women with HIV. Learn about the varied impacts on women in different racial groups.
Feeling low? Learn about depression – what it is, why women living with HIV are likely to have it, and why it is important to diagnose and treat it.
No one should be punished for having a health condition. Learn more about laws that treat HIV as a crime, and what they mean for women.
Get basic information on what safer sex is and is not, how to practice different forms of safer sex, and tips on thinking things through ahead of time.
Learn more about health and safety issues for women living with HIV who are incarcerated in the US, and what advocates on the outside can do to help.
It all started a few months ago when CAB (community advisory board) member Samantha Rose Montemayor sent me a message and said, "Marissa, we should be at this event."