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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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...

HIV Took Away My Motherhood

A Girl Like Me blogger, Maria Mejia.This blog was not easy to write… Yes, HIV took my motherhood… Back in those times when I was diagnosed, we had no medicine. At least, I didn't have any access to treatment in Colombia, my country where I left from the United States...

I Am

I am understanding the trauma I have experienced and how it has affected me. I have done nothing wrong, there is no one to blame. Life circumstances create opportunities for personal growth.

Death of my father at age 12, marital betrayal, loss of a business, and having to relocate away...

Knowing You Love Me

A Girl Like Me blogger, Angel S.A Girl Like Me blogger, Angel S.How to touch on this subject. The smiles feel like sugar.

Validation is the aid in self esteem, essentially the acceptance in validation grows inner strength. Building off the positive reaction to the action creating a repeat satisfaction...

Intro - Positive Sunbeam

Blogger, Positive Sunbeam.I am a healthy 62 year old woman living with untransmittable HIV for 20 years. I take care of myself, exercise, cook healthy meals, and work full-time at an integrative health clinic managing the Botanical Medicine Department.

I have an awesome 32 year old son and daughter-in-law and...

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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...

That One Thing

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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...

Intro - Harmony Rey

Harmony Rey.My name is Harmony Rey Zorio (formerly Connie Rose) and I was living in Indiana during the time I found out I was positive - in a small farming community snug in the hip of the bible belt. I was only 21 years old with a 10-month old...

Intro - Stephanie (EnoughIsEnough)

A Girl Like Me blogger, Stephanie (EnoughIsEnough).Diagnosed in 1987 in US Navy basic training at 22 years old, making me currently a 36 year survivor. Discharged with no benefits and already suffering from multiple previous traumas, I spent the next 35 years struggling to have the will to live and...

Can we be brave together?

Eliane (HIVstigmafighter) holding a sign that reads "PrEP Diversity".My lovely people, in many cities all over the world we celebrate Pride in August. Pride is an important moment for the LGBTQIA+ Community to express themselves.

Thanks to an invitation from Sensoa Belgium, I was happily part of Antwerp Pride and...

Road Maps

Several maps.What's the road map?

I have a bunch of useless random facts in my head. Sometimes they live there to amuse me, sometimes they connect dots for me at odd times. Have you ever heard of an isochrone map? An isochrone map is a type of map that shows...

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