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March 10, 2016 11:45am - 1:15pm Washington, DC via U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health Thursday, March 10, 2016 will be the 11th observance of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD). Join us...

Have you ever experienced something that left you feeling and questioning, "Did that really just happen?" Of course. I have experienced several of those moments in my lifetime, yet I don’t quite believe I was ready for such an accomplishment...

Hello again to all of my sisters here. I want to share a little something about my life. I'm going through a healing process within myself and learned that being open about my issues are a part of that healing...

I live in the basement: the lowest floor of the social systems we have here in America. Above me live the middle-class: not concerned with the trials of the lower class; the privileged: living in a bubble of supremacy; and...

The BEST person you can be is "yourself". You should never have to feel as if you have to compete against anyone. If you don't have all the answers just "Be You," and be true to yourself. It is fine...

I have had a very challenging couple of weeks since my time at Creating Change 2016. I have had to struggle with the idea of sisterhood and solidarity. I will do my best to just explain where I am coming...

Nací en el seno de una familia numerosa compuesta por mis padres y mis cinco hermanos. Una familia trabajadora, unida, donde se nos enseñó de muy pequeños la importancia del RESPETO, LA JUSTICIA SOCIAL, LA EQUIDAD, la importancia de COMPARTIR...

"I am a woman born on the soil of New York City, who entered her adolescence in the less-populated rural region of the state of Georgia. Such duplicity has been the standard of my life, being also transgender and a...

via National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) February 7, 2016 marks the 16th year for National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), a national HIV testing and treatment community mobilization initiative targeted at Blacks in the United States and the Diaspora...

In this blog I would like to begin to explore the issue of side effects from Combination Antiretroviral Therapy (cART). Admitting that they even exist can be difficult when we are told repeatedly that our drugs are "well-tolerated." However, I...