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If you are new to advocating, have never been to USCHA, or are interested in learning about HIV, I highly suggest considering your attendance for the coming year!

Last year at USCHA I stood in a room and said We are not long-term survivors, but we are LIFETIME SURVIVORS.

Oh dear melanin melanated skin beautiful without and beautiful within they could never comprehend what it's like to be a man or wo/man hold on let me make this make sense they said we came from the man rib but isn't that close to the womb...

Plus catches up with Masonia Traylor and Ciarra "Ci Ci" Covin, the main two subjects of the film Unexpected.

We all have that one thing in common. The person we were before diagnosis and now as a +Supergirl. There's that one experience that only we know how it feels. That first time we looked eye to eye with ourselves and had to own the fear of our new...

I want to blog for A Girl Like Me because it is the most encouraging combined force of powerful women, people and allies, speaking out and showing solidarity.

Diagnosed in 1987 in US Navy basic training at 22 years old, making me currently a 36 year survivor.

Thanks to an invitation from Sensoa Belgium, I was happily part of Antwerp Pride and contribute to their campaign Is PrEP iets voor jou? (is PrEP something for you?).

Infórmese sobre las restricciones que rodean el aborto – un procedimiento médico seguro, importante y común – y los derechos de las personas a tomar decisiones sobre su propio cuerpo.

Learn more about restrictions surrounding abortion – a safe, important, common medical procedure – and people's rights to make decisions about their own bodies.

At one point I really thought I wanted a road map for this life with HIV. Like, really, really wanted a road map. I wanted more than just "you're not going to die."

Charles Sanchez and The Well Project's stakeholder liaison, Bridgette Picou, discuss the groundbreaking work at The Well Project, challenges that all women across the gender spectrum and nonbinary folks face when it comes to HIV issues, and more.

The first WRI [Women's Research Initiative on HIV/AIDS] meeting blew my mind. Different kinds of people all together in one space with a common goal – it felt more like a rejuvenation retreat than work. Everybody was there because they cared, and nobody was posturing.

Let me tell you how my HIV diagnosis led to me at New York Fashion Week. I attended my routine check-up as usual. I was triaged and after being placed in the exam room, my doctor asked to speak with my mother alone in another room. My mother returned...

Maybe you do need to start again. I encourage you to keep trying because there is always a new day. A new moment. A new opportunity. Yes, there will be another time to try again or simply recreate a new path.