A Girl Like Me (AGLM), a program of The Well Project, is a blog where women ( cis and trans The Well Project serves women across the gender spectrum. (More about gender identity)) can share their experiences and promote understanding of HIV. Millions of women around the globe are living with HIV, yet many feel they are alone in their disease and isolated in their day-to-day experiences. The goals of AGLM are to help normalize HIV; and to create a safe space for women living with HIV from around the world to speak out and share their experiences – with each other, and with those seeking a support community.

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Reaching Your Dreams

Woman in front of colorful mountains with a butterfly next to her.Translation of written submission by Kenya

Hello! I'm Kenya. I'm 28 years old, married, I have three daughters, and yes, I am HIV positive. I was diagnosed four years ago, and I'm still standing, fighting, moving forward, and even...

Positive Living 2022

Headshot of Katie Willingham.After three long years of fearing to gather together, grinding all conferences and in-person events to a halt, condemning us all to a life of isolation and social distancing, at long last life has begun to creep back from the shadows of an epic epidemic, and none...

Surviving Hurricane Ian

Marissa Gonzalez.I've lived in Southwest Florida (SWFL) since 2004 and I've experienced a few storms with my family since being here. Charlie was my introduction, not even having lived here a month. I moved to Cape Coral about two years ago, and this was the first storm that was headed...

A Daily Choice

Illustration of woman nursing infant with flowers all around them.Written submission by Wanda Lien-Rojas

It was 1985, I was 21 years old and President Ronald Reagan announced to the world the genesis of a new disease; G.R.I.D. or the Gay Related Immune Disorder, later known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome...

Unity

Eliane Becks.Each year during the first weekend of September the Airborne March, commemorating the 1944 battle of Arnhem, is organised in Oosterbeek. I did this beautiful walk for the first time in 2019, just before the corona pandemic. This year, my wish to walk once again with my neighbour and...

Life of an HIV Advocate/Activist

Headshot of Precious Kaniki and logo for A Girl Like Me.Dear young person who has gone public... Take it easy on yourself. Don't be hard on yourself. Do practice self-love.

When I went public with my status, I received overwhelming response from young people going through what I did... explaining...

Intro - Healing Hope

Healing Hope book cover.The tradition of storytelling has been a sacred and cathartic practice for women to share experiences and express emotions. The safety of a community creates an atmosphere for mutual exchange in fellowship with other women who have similar lived experiences...


As part of a...

Take It All In

The moon is shining beautifully in its full phase lighting up the night sky, and a steady warm breeze blows as I walk across white, shifting sand to the gentle crashing of waves. Before me is the vast expanse of rippling sea with sparkling crests dancing on the water like...

Share talent, break HIV stigma

A Girl Like Me blogger, Eliane.I was honoured to be selected by IAS to participate at the 24th International AIDS Conference. AIDS2022 took in place in Montreal between 27 July and 2 August.

Let me first of all state that everyone, including me, was so disappointed that so many participants...

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Day 102 of

Marissa Gonzalez at her aunt's hospital bedside.August 29th marked 102 days... and while I am very late providing an update, I wasn't quite ready...

On day 45 I had updated you all on my life since June 1, the day I arrived to New Jersey... but Day 1 was truly...

My First USCHA Experience

HIVictorious and Porchia Dees at USCHA.I attended the 2023 USCHA conference in Washington DC last week. All I can is wow...what an experience. Backstory: I have been out of the HIV loop for quite a few years. (My other life took over.) However, I could never forget that HIV is...

11 by the Numbers

Bridgette Picou.It is September 25th, 2023. This day marks my 11th year of knowing that I'm living with HIV. Eleven years is a long time. Time is one of those things that seems to be dragging and suddenly you look up and wonder where the time went. I...

Invisible

Marcya Gullatte.Have you ever felt invisible?

As a child I felt invisible. In my home there were just three of us: my mother, my brother, and me. My parents divorced when I was three years old. My brother had health problems and required more attention, but as a child I...

My Positive Living

KatieAdsila.I would like to tell you about a very special conference to me; it's called Positive Living and it's hosted by an organization called Oasis Florida. I've been coming to this conference since 2015. I remember being invited by my ASO (AIDS Service Organization) where I received my treatment. I...

USCHA 2023: My Girls

Heather O'Connor.MY GIRLS! I can't explain the connection and the happiness I feel when I'm around them. When I share space with them, I feel heard and held and so effortlessly it comes naturally for me to do the same for them. We are strong, we are hot af, and...

POWER: Melanated Women

A Girl Like Me blogger, Derinthia Johnson.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...

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