Stigma is deadlier than the disease itself, and the top driver of HIV stigma, in my opinion, is the church.
I started to realize that I wasn't the only person in this situation and that maybe we all lived under very different circumstances, but we all lived in the same situation.
As I approach my 17th year of living with HIV, I can clearly hear God's voice, I'm happy to hear his voice, I realize how much more painful it was not being able to hear it.
Life gives you chances, and you have to take advantage of them... HIV made me stronger. It empowered me even more.
I am here to share the great news that I'M EXPECTING!!! Of course, some of you reading this may have known that already, LOL!
I know... I know.... you're probably clutching your pearls right now. But that's not what I'm talking about.
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.
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 feels. That first time we looked eye to eye with...
Maybe you do need to start again. I encourage you to keep trying because there is always a new day. A new moment. A new opportunity. Yes, there will be another time to try again or simply recreate a new path.
I didn't want to write a harmful blog, but it's my duty. As the title says, the Republican Party is proposing an appropriation bill to cut significant HIV/AIDS funds.