activism, advocacy

Michelle Anderson, Ms. Plus America 2011, is the first openly HIV-positive woman to ever run for, and win, a national pageant title. She currently resides in Dallas, Texas and is very active in her...

I was fortunate enough to attend an amazing film screening of “How to Survive a Plague” directed by filmmaker David France at AIDS 2012. Words cannot describe how this film moved me to really...

Sonya posted a new blog To My Sisters..."spoken word style” on A Girl Like Me’s “Voices from our Allies” page: Too many of my Sisters are winding up dead because they allow smooth-talking brothers to...

Too many of my Sisters are winding up dead because they allow smooth-talking brothers to mess with their head! Why should another Sister, full of promise, have to die because a man lied about his...

It's probably a good thing I did not go (to AIDS 2012), I am afraid my restraint is wearing thin. I have stepped up my nutritional intake, with Basil oil, and I plan to also get some Oil of Oregano...

Tiffany posted a new blog “ Even in my compassion, I have lacked action” on A Girl Like Me’s “Voices from our Allies” page: …That is what she said in response to the hearing of another young woman...

...That is what she said in response to the hearing of another young woman dead in our community as she urged her friends on facebook to have a call to arms. I was so struck by the statement that I...

I read a statement earlier this week that has stuck with me ever since. It said "Perhaps we as humans are like plants, the moment we cease to grow is the moment we begin to die."

My only requirement would be UNCONDITIONAL love, that is so hard to find nowadays. I see lot of marriage and relationship breaking due to the lack of such love. When one loves a person...

My name is Connie L. Johnson. I am a daughter, a sister, a niece, and a friend who was diagnosed with AIDS in 2002.