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Love, how beautiful it is! This is so important for people living with HIV/AIDS...to have someone who loves you for you and can see past the illness, that is if they are negative..I am very blessed...

Submitted on : Mar 18, 2011

Taking away STIGMA! I AM NOT AN UGLY SCORPION (which adds to the STIGMA!!!)

Well, well, well. Where the hell do I start??? I am going to try to be as nice and sweet as possible! I had to give myself a day to write this. It started as another thing I posted on my facebook HIV...

Submitted on : Mar 9, 2011

WHY I WANT TO SHOW MY FACE AFTER 20 YEARS

I am ready to show my face for many reasons! After the cycles that we go through with HIV/AIDS...the denial, realizing I was not dying after all...came the shame and hiding. I also started with the...

Submitted on : Jan 26, 2011

Maria's intro

I was just turning 18 when I found out I was HIV positive...I was very young. Back in those days, this was a death sentence. It was around the same time Magic Johnson came out saying he was positive...

Submitted on : Dec 7, 2010

Remember

I lost a friend last week; someone, like me, who battled HIV and other illnesses for a very long time. He was an amazing person who was there when you needed him. He never complained of his own...

Submitted on : Aug 30, 2010

Intro - Lovinglife

I acquired HIV in 1985 from my fiancé who use to shoot dope as a teen in New York. What a gift he gave me. I spent the next few years in a drunken, coked out haze of parties and hangovers. I made a...

Submitted on : Jun 28, 2010

Ryan White 20 years later

Today as I sit at work in between patients I was contemplating about something prolific to write today. I stumbled across a letter on Facebook that was posted by The Well Project. It was a letter...

Submitted on : May 5, 2010