finding balance

Lynnea was born in Los Angeles California. She found out about her HIV status at the age of 7.

Our journey to treatment adherence is just that; a journey. Everyone's journey does not look the same and that's ok.

Since being diagnosed in 2016, regardless of living in silence or loud and proud, I've tried attending anything related to HIV here in Fort Myers

See, a girl like me, living in a cruel cold world…with little to no backbone support.

I remember a very persuasive man telling America, "Yes We Can." Up to that point I had lived in a completely different world, still deep in the closet, fearful that the world was not ready for my...

You only live once is a phrase we all hear a lot, though that's not true. The real statement is we only die once, but we live every day. In life some people believe in winning and losing, but me...

My name is Marissa Gonzalez, originally from New Jersey, now living in sunny Southwest Florida.

I was 26 years old. My children were 1 and 6 years old. I had recently ended a mentally and physically abusive relationship.

I was 11 years old when my mother and sister finally told me my mom had AIDS, my father had AIDS and I was born HIV+.

When I found out I was HIV positive, I didn’t know much about the virus except for what I remember learning in my high school health class. I thought I was going to die young. I thought I would look...