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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...

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...

This was my first time attending the USCHA conference in DC. This year's theme was "A Love Letter to Black Women". When I found out about this conference earlier this year, I said, I don't know how I'm getting there...

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...

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...

September 27, 2023 12:00pm ET | 9:00am PT via Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) This webinar, presented by the ANAC DEI committee, will be a panel discussion that provides strategies for having healthy conversations about sex.

This is the second time I've been able to attend USCHA and oddly enough, both trips followed a significant event in my life... I often refer to USCHA as the Grammys of HIV Conferences. With 4,000 people in attendance it...

Last year at USCHA I stood in a room and said, We are not long-term survivors, but we are LIFETIME SURVIVORS. Never would I have thought that by me saying that name, that term, a year later I would be...

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...

Tuesday, September 26, 2023 12:00pm — 1:00pm PT | 3:00pm — 4:00pm ET The HIV Institute Seminar Series and the San Diego Center for AIDS Research are pleased to present Eileen Scully, MD, PhD in seminar, on Tuesday, September 26 at 12pm (PDT).