A Girl Like Me Contributors

Cali Sunshine greetings! I generally go by Red and am just your slightly above average Cali girl. I love the beach, I skate and I make jewelry. Nursing chose me as a second career and I have been doing it for a little over four years. I’m also HIV...

Nació en NY en 1962, pero llegó a PR a los 3 años por lo que se siente boricua. Tiene 2 hijos, 7 nietos y dos bisnietos. Posee un bachillerato en Investigación y un menor en psicología. El VIH llegó a vivir con ella en 1997. Desde su contagio se...

Waheedah Shabazz-El, 56 years of age, is an African American Muslim Woman and retired postal worker who was diagnosed with AIDS in 2003. Shabazz-El is a founding member of the US Positive Women's Network (a membership body founded in 2008 of, by, and...

Hi, my name is Sharonda Lynn. I've been HIV positive for 22 years and counting. I was first diagnosed at the age of 19 years old. I found out I was HIV positive a month before graduating high school with a one year old daughter. I would never have...

I am a 29 year old yummy mummy from Durban, South Africa with three boys: one five year old, a 19 year old (stepson) and my husband. I have been married for five years. I have a degree in Food Technology and work full time fas a Food Technologist for...

My name is Sian Green and I was diagnosed six years ago with HIV. I have two children who I love very unconditionally, and I am from New Orleans, LA. Becoming an HIV/AIDS activist was not second nature nor was finding my purpose in life. I truly...

Hi, I am 55 years old, and was diagnosed with HIV at the age of 19, way back in 1989. I grew up on the east coast and life was not easy or simple for me as a child. I am a survivor of several kinds of abuse, for which none of us deserve no matter the...

My (chosen) name is Sonia. I am 31 years old and discovered I am HIV+ less than a month ago. Still feels like a bad dream and I have been waiting for somebody to wake me up, but doesn't seem to happen. I bumped into this website while searching on...

My name is Sophie Mubvumbi Jayawardene. Many People call me Stigma Warrior Princess. Please feel free to call me this or Sophie Jayawardene. I was diagnosed in 1989. At the time I was happily married, six months pregnant expecting twins, and had two...

Opportunities Not Obstacles! My grandson ran in his first Spartan race on Sunday, and as my eyes followed him, I thought how amazing this was that this could be a metaphor for all the challenges that so many of us have before we realize that we are...