WORLD:Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases

Special Sister Circle event tomorrow featuring Isabella Ventura of AIDS Healthcare Foundation! Email [email protected] or call us at 510-986-0340 to sign up and get the link!

Special Sister Circle event this weekend! Featuring Isabella Ventura, Administrative Medical Director and nurse practitioner at AIDS Healthcare Foundation in San Francisco and Oakland. Share the flyer and visit our website for more info! http://womenhiv.org/sister-circle-special-event-2-13-21/

Check out the free Umoja testing pop ups in Oakland this weekend and February 21st! More info about Umoja at https://unitedinhealthoakland.org/

Sister Circle is now held twice a month! The last group of January will be held tomorrow, 1/23, and February groups will be held 2/13 and 2/27. Call us at 510-986-0340 or email [email protected] for details.

Congratulations to Vice President Kamala Harris! We at WORLD are inspired and empowered by you! Check out our new website post for some thoughts on this historic occasion from our staff and Executive Director, plus a spoken word poem by our Policy & Advocacy Manager Dr. Demisha Burns http://womenhiv.org/congratulations-vice-president-harris/

Our wellness programs have been going so well, we're expanding them & giving even more reasons to participate! Movement classes are now held twice a week w/ options to receive gift cards and exercise equipment, and cooking class participants will receive food so we can all cook together You can participate in one or both programs. Call us at 510-986-0340 or email [email protected] to sign up and get more info!

Tampoco a los niños. Cuidemos su integridad.

WORLD...an inspiration and honor to serve.

ICYMI - A recording of the HIV Service Provision During COVID-19. Town Hall is now available!

I don't know about you, but this has been a tough parenting season for us. The fear is real, the hard conversations are in full swing, and it seems like the sma...llest things require significant cost/benefit analyses. I thought it might be a good time to dig back into The Gifts of Imperfect Parenting research. It's been helping us (huge thanks to all of the research participants). This first learning is a reminder of the core finding from this research: Some of the best strategies rely on modeling the behaviors we want to see. Turns out that we need to be the adult that we want our kids to grow up to be. Dammit. There is immeasurable power in our children watching us practice self-kindness vs. berating ourselves or putting ourselves down when we stumble, fail, or make mistakes. And, no matter how we encourage them to talk to themselves, they are definitely watching to see what really matters. And, letting them in on our process is equally as powerful: "I really dropped the ball today and I'm struggling to be kind to myself about it and talk to myself the way I'd talk to someone I love." Modeling, normalizing that it isn't easy, and connecting. Y'all have a great weekend! Awkward, brave and kind, folks.

It's the final presidential debate tonight! Remember to stay informed and make your vote count - you can check out what's on your ballot info by texting RESIST to 52886 or clicking https://p2a.co/72rNZxg

Our potential, our joy, and the true Self are all waiting on the other side. We just need to let go. Download the Chopra App for your guide to well-being: http://bit.ly/ChopraGlobalApp

So good... every storm runs out of rain

Stay informed and protect your life!

New post on our website for NLHAAD - we're bringing back a support group held in Spanish! Website post is in Spanish and English http://womenhiv.org/national-latinx-hiv-aids-awareness-day/