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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I Am, "SHE LEADS"

Blogging is something I've considered doing for a while however I didn't think it'd be this difficult. My name is Masonia, meaning "She Leads". However, somewhere along the way I got lost I think, maybe I was confused and got stuck or maybe I just took a breather as a...

Defining Safe

I feel my most safest when I'm in an airplane amongst the clouds
In the sand at the foot of an ocean or near flowing water
With my boyfriend
With my children
Sometimes with my mom
I feel safe when I dance
I feel safe when I read books
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My Journey Back to JOY

There are things that people may not recognize about me because they've just started getting to know me in the last 8 years but I noticed that there are parts of my heart that seem to have hardened. The freedom of constant joy has been snatched away from me a...

Live or die

I absolutely hate taking medicine. Especially this HIV shit. They told me at the beginning that I would have to take medicine everyday. But damn y'all ... I really gotta take medicine everyday. It's like this anchor that reminds me daily of my positive HIV status.

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Learning to Swim

When I was a child, 5 or 6 years old, we lived on the banks of the Tennessee River.  I couldn’t swim so I had to wear a life jacket anytime I wanted to go by the water, one night my dad and some friends were fishing on the dock and I was with them, I was wearing my life jacket but for whatever reason I can no longer remember,...

SEVEN

Seven years ago today I met the man that would become both the best and worst memories, and love, I have known to date. Sitting at a meeting, our eyes locked and we were connected from that moment forward. Today would have been our seven year anniversary.

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I No Longer Want to Hide Within Myself #NBHAAD #BlackAIDSDay

I have been positive for two years now and public for one. See, I exposed my status on Facebook live and I went viral, literally.

I exposed myself because I felt like I was hiding, hiding a part of me all because I only had some basic knowledge and false myths about HIV/AIDS. I feared people were going to treat me differently like I was nasty and contagious.

To...

The day I was diagnosed...

The day I was diagnosed will forever live in my heart. My sister and my mother were the first people that I told and there reaction is why I feel so alone even in a room of people. The first words they said to me were: I did it to myself. No one is to know.

I have no one who understands. Then I found the The Well Project...

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Intro - Zora Voyce

Zora Voyce.My decision to openly share my HIV status at the age of 23 was not about seeking attention but about filling a critical gap in the conversation. I wanted to become a voice for those living with HIV, breaking down stigmas and misconceptions that surround the condition.

As a...

How Yoga Helps Me

A Girl Like Me blogger Louise in a yoga posture.Yoga played a transformative role in helping me come to terms with my HIV diagnosis and regain control of my life. Before embracing yoga, I was a very heavy drinker. In fact I was a functioning alcoholic. I worked hard and...

A Vivacious HIV Community

Person playing "Tower of Trust" with Jenga game.My lovely people, these past few days I have been very proactive and this is really boosting my confidence and energy as well.

Last weekend I was invited to give a THRIVE workshop during the 4th National HIV positive Day, an initiative by...

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...

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