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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Join Me at the NYC AIDS Walk

A Girl Like Me blogger, Escalice and friend at the NYC AIDS Walk.This past March marked 8 years since my diagnosis. This year I had the idea to try and get some positive and powerful women to walk with me. On Sunday, May 21st, I invite any of you ladies...

Bad Bitch

A Girl Like Me blogger, KatieAdsila, wearing a shirt that reads "Bad Bitch".I bought a t-shirt in Las Vegas because I thought it was amusing. It said "Bad Bitch" on the front of it. I smiled when I saw it and for whatever reason I decided to buy it.

Why...

Quality of Life and HIV

María Natalia Sáenz Agudelo.According to the WHO, quality of life is: "[...] the perception that a person has about their position in life within the cultural context and the value system in which they live and with respect to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns. It is a wide-ranging concept...

A Girl Like Me LIVE Episode 28: Combatting Loneliness and Isolation with HIV - Building A Village – April 27, 2023

Women Like Us logo.April 27, 2023
12pm – 1pm ET | 9am – 10am PT

Join us on Thursday, April 27th at 12pm ET for the first Women Like Us - Aging Positively episode of A Girl Like Me LIVE where The Well Project's stakeholder liaison, Bridgette Picou, LVN, ACLPN will be joined by long-time The Well Project collaborator and fierce advocate, Gina Brown, RSW.

My 35 Year Anniversary Living With HIV

Maria Mejia.Tomorrow, April 18, marks my 35-year battle with #HIV! I never thought I would make it this far. Thank you to all that have helped me and taught me in this journey to be a better human being. ❤️ I want to thank my mother, Tere Velasquez, for being...

Birth and Postpartum Support and HIV - April 12, 2023

SHE/HER/THEY event flyer with speakers' headshots & logos of The Well Project & The Afiya Center.

Wednesday, April 12, 2023
9:00 – 10:00am PT  |  10:00 – 11:00am MT  |  11:00am – 12:00pm CT  |  12:00 – 1:00pm ET

Join The Well Project and The Afiya Center during Black Maternal Health Week 2023 for an illuminating conversation about the benefits of doula support for Black women and other birthing parents living with HIV.

Sharing My HIV Status With My Mum

AnaMaria77.I remember this special occasion as if it was today. It was my youngest sister's baptism and as my mum prepared to take a picture with my sister, I jumped up and made sure I was part of the picture too. You can see that I'm looking away, my stance...

Power women

Illustration of profiles of women's faces.Hello lovely people,

March is always exciting for us women because is the one day in a year where women are given more attention because of International Women's Day which is always celebrated on 8 March.

This year's focus is on achieving gender equality and...

Sometimes It Sucks

Heather O'Connor.I got caught up in believing I didn't deserve respect because of my past and dark parts of my identity that I tuck away and try to forget about until it's all I remember. But now I'm learning that self-acceptance is a vital part in determining who you share...

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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

Hand with heart bracelet in back pocket of pants.
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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...

HIV to New York Fashion Week

Justine Davenport.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...

Stress and The Mind/Body Response

Lynda Arnold.I wanted to write my next blog piece about mental wellness. Then as I got the internal fortitude to actually start writing, I thought to myself that lately this topic is beginning to feel slightly overused.

Wow... how ironic. I rolled my eyes at myself. Here you are trying...

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