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Together, we can change the course of the HIV epidemic…one woman at a time.
#Women living with #HIV face unique health challenges—including a higher risk of developing #diabetes. While diabetes is a serious condition, you can make lifestyle changes and work with healthcare providers to control it and prevent many complications.

Today on #WorldDiabetesDay, learn more ⤵️
Diabetes
Learn why diabetes is important to people living with HIV and find out about its symptoms, blood sugar tests, treatments, and more.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"I don't disclose to everyone, and I don't disclose all the time. But when I do, I see it as a sacred act."

There is no shame in discussing your #HIV status. In an encouraging blog, NikNik shares how her gift of #disclosure is a powerful affirmation of who she is.

Read her heartfelt blog below ⤵️
Disclosure Is My Gift to You
For twenty years, I have carried a truth within me: I am a Black woman living with HIV. That truth is not a burden, but a gift—though it took me many years to see it that way.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Join us for Proactive Advocacy for Preventative Screenings in Women Living with HIV: A Girl Like Me LIVE November 12, 2025, at 12pm ET/ 9am PT
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Proactive Advocacy for Preventative Screenings in Women Living with HIV: A Girl Like Me LIVE
On November 12, 2025, join us for episode 37 of A Girl Like Me LIVE, where we will emphasize the significance of being proactive in healthcare encounters.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
When living with #HIV taking control of your health is important to thriving. Part of taking care of your whole body is caring for your genital & #reproductivehealth.

💡 #GetTheFacts on gyn care including screening for & treating issues affecting internal & external genital & reproductive organs. ⤵️
Common Gynecologic Concerns for People Living with HIV
Learn about gynecologic concerns experienced by people with a vagina, cervix, uterus, and/or ovaries – including those more common or serious for people living with HIV.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Menopause is a natural process – and is not the end of your vitality.

🎤 Let's talk about it!

👉 Join us November 20, 2025 for a conversation exploring what we know about #menopause and #HIV, the unique experiences of #women living with HIV, and so much more! Register🔗 bit.ly/HIVMenopauseRoundtable
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"Since it ain't no grand escaping this shit, I just be tryna make the best of whatever comes my way."

One way our lives can be counted is by experiences we have. Advocate/storyteller Ciarra "Ci Ci" Covin took a trip to Africa that was a once in lifetime experience. #HIV #women #life #racism

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Take me back to the house
A sister girl is just tryna survive these +/- 100 years that I got and praying for Jesus to come back like they said, cus these people really down here wilding.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Next up on #AGirlLikeMe LIVE, Ciarra "Ci Ci" Covin, MS, HS – BCP and Bridgette Picou, LVN, ACLPN will discuss preventative screenings and importance of self-advocacy for #women living with #HIV. We'll share resources to help navigate health needs and have open conversations with #healthcare teams ⤵️
Proactive Advocacy for Preventative Screenings in Women Living with HIV: A Girl Like Me LIVE
On November 12, 2025, join us for episode 37 of A Girl Like Me LIVE, where we will emphasize the significance of being proactive in healthcare encounters.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
#HIV is a worldwide health issue. Carolyne, an #AGirlLikeMe blogger, shares what life has been like in her village since the funding from #USAID was stripped away.

"Where will I start? How will I manage my family in a village where even getting water is not as easy as you think?"

Read the blog ⤵️
Village Life, Surviving Without USAID
Living today not knowing whether you will receive your medication during your next visit to your clinics isn't a joke.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
💡 #DidYouKnow

Human papillomavirus #HPV can be serious for people living with #HIV. Often there are no symptoms, so getting regular exams from your healthcare provider is the best way to be sure that any problems are found and treated early.

#FactSheetFriday #FridayFacts #GetTheFacts ⤵️
Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
Learn about HPV – what it is, important vaccines and screening tests, and the genital warts, cervical cancer, and anal cancer it can cause.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Girlpozitive returns to #AGirlLikeMe with a poignant blog on her journey through loss, anguish, addiction... and getting to the other side of it.

"You deserve peace. You deserve healing. And you deserve to live."

#HealingJourney #recoveryispossible #endHIVstigma

✨ Read the full blog below ✨
Navigating Grief, HIV Stigma, and Sobriety
Help and healing are possible. It starts with one act of surrender and one conversation with someone you trust.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
#ICYMI Ci Ci Covin & Aryah Lester led an episode of #AGirlLikeMe LIVE about the power of language. The words we use - and that others use - can affect the ways in which we view the world and even how we feel about ourselves. WATCH🔗 bit.ly/AGLMLive36

#wordshavepower #languagematters #wednesdaywisdom
October 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"The room became unbelievably bright. It was so bright I had to close my eyes for a moment to adjust to the brightness. I looked at the wall in front of me, and it looked like a movie was playing on it." @jreed73.bsky.social writes of a life-altering accident and the vision that pushed her forward.
I Had a Vision
It was Friday, May 2, 1986, and the day started out like any other day, but it wasn't. Today would change our lives forever.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
–––✨–––
I was dying.
And they called it allergies.

Said it so casual,
like my body wasn't a burning building
with no exits left.
Like I wasn't a mother unraveling
in real time,
lungs playing a ghost note
with every breath I begged to borrow.
–––✨–––

Cupcake80 #AGirlLikeMe 💞 #HIV and #women

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Seven Years Ago, I Walked Myself Into Resurrection
This is not just a story about illness— it's about intuition. The terrifying silence of being dismissed. And the sacred roar of deciding to save yourself.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
#FridayFacts

Many people still do not understand how #HIV is passed, or transmitted, from one person to another.

📣 #HIVSTIGMA comes from misinformation.

Get the facts and be part of the solution. Follow the link for today's #FactSheetFriday ⤵️
HIV Transmission
Get the basics on HIV transmission: how HIV is and is not passed, common types of transmission, and how to avoid acquiring HIV.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"This year's US Conference on HIV/AIDS ( #USCHA 2025) descended on Washington, DC, as it tends to every other September, amid turmoil and uncertainty in the nation's capital."

Read a round-up of The Well Project's presence, session recaps, and #2025USCHA conference content review from Olivia Ford.
The Well Project at the US Conference on HIV/AIDS 2025
Members of The Well Project's community were involved at USCHA 2025 on various levels, reporting on as well as presenting at the nation's largest HIV community meeting.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
⏰ REMINDER: This episode of #AGirlLikeMe LIVE will explore the impact #language has on the #wellness of women living with #HIV. We will delve into the role that words play in shaping our identities.

🔔 Join us TOMORROW, October 23, 12pm ET/9am PT

Register here (case sensitive) 👉 bit.ly/AGLMLive36
October 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Blogger Red40something writes about why she doesn't need a #cure and gives a peek into thriving with the virus in "I Don't Need It".

"All I'm saying here is that cure is not the end all be all for ALL."

Join our #AGirlLikeMe platform of bloggers sharing stories and triumphs and life with #HIV.
I Don't NEED It.
I advocate for [HIV] cure research with an open mind and open heart... Personally, I am free from the burden of needing a cure. It's a "nice-to-have", not a "need-to-have".
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October 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"I'm still trying to find where I belong, how to heal, how to start over. But I'm here. And for now, that's enough!!!"

Longtime #blogger, Global Ambassador, and good friend to The Well Project, boseolotu, shares an unguarded look at a difficult choice in a new blog ⤵️

#MondayMotivation #AGirlLikeMe
Running Away or Choosing to Live?
I left—not because I wanted to, but because I had to. I left to live... I'm still trying to find where I belong, how to heal, how to start over.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
#Wellness includes activities that make us feel good, challenges we can learn to manage & other quality-of-life aspects. Check out our new (downloadable & printable) pamphlet "Caring for Your Whole Self" and place a free order for your organization or wellness space!
#womenandhiv #health #takingcare
Caring for Your Whole Self
This collection of materials features tools and perspectives to support women's holistic wellness and overall well-being.
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October 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"This isn't just about writing—
it's about reaching the woman who's just been diagnosed and doesn't know what comes next.

It's about holding space for the woman who's afraid to say ' #HIV / #AIDS' out loud...

#Healing is Resistance

This Is What Survival Looks Like" ~Cupcake80 #AGirlLikeMe

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2,557 Days
"You have HIV. HIV3 to be exact." That's what they said—HIV3. I didn't even know what that meant... No one explained it. No one softened it.
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October 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Hoy es el Día Nacional Latino para la Concientización del SIDA (#NLAAD), una movilización comunitaria que promueve métodos eficaces de prevención y tratamiento del VIH entre comunidades latinas.

✴️ Obtén información sobre NLAAD ➡️ nlaad.org y obtén recursos en español ➡️ bit.ly/TWPespanol

#VIH
#SIDA
October 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"Through my nonprofit I Am U, we focus on empowering #women impacted by #HIV, violence, and other traumas... My goal is always to pair #education with #empowerment so women walk away with resources and a renewed sense of power and worth." Meet Lynette Trawick, in our series #WomenMakingaDifference ⤵️
Spotlight on Lynette Trawick: Women Making a Difference
My goal is always to pair education with empowerment so women walk away with resources and a renewed sense of power and worth.
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October 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
As #women living with #HIV think about their futures, some are deciding to have the babies they always wanted.

If you plan ahead, there are many things you can do to protect your #health and the health of your new baby.

#FactSheetFriday #GetTheFacts #pregnancy #FridayFacts

Learn more ⤵️
Pregnancy, Birth, and HIV
Get information on what you need to know before you get pregnant, HIV drugs during pregnancy, what happens after the baby is born, and more.
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October 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
#USCHA 2025 took place in Washington DC this past September, with a theme of #Aging With #HIV. In this piece @katie6817.bsky.social writes about the session "Unlearning Survival: Mental Health and the Burdened Woman", a new perspective on trauma, #mentalhealth, #selfcare and unexpectedly #pleasure ⤵️
Understanding the Burdened Woman: A Recap from USCHA 2025
"We focus on our health but often that’s not enough. What about living a full life in every sense? Women are burdened with many responsibilities and traumas."
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October 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
🤩 #newbloggeralert + #WCW
"Although I have been undetectable since 2021, I am still learning to navigate through so much with this diagnosis. I have become more resilient, more aware, and I am finally stepping into my truth..." Please welcome new blogger "BoldlyMe" to #AGirlLikeMe. Learn more ⤵️
Intro – BoldlyMe
I'm coming up on my fourth year of being diagnosed with HIV. Although I have been undetectable since 2021, I am still learning to navigate through so much with this diagnosis.
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October 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM