Terri Wilder, M.S.W.
Terri L. Wilder, M.S.W., has been part of the HIV community since 1989, and has been a reporter and writer for TheBody/TheBodyPro since 2007. She served on the New York Governor's Task Force to End AIDS, was recognized by POZ magazine for her work in HIV, and is highlighted in the book Fag Hags, Divas and Moms: The Legacy of Straight Women in the AIDS Community by Victoria Noe. She loves this community and will keep fighting until the epidemic is over.
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Spencer Cox, Iconic HIV Activist, Through the Eyes of His Mother and His Friend
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This Positive Life: Dee Dee Chamblee Bounces Back From 3 T Cells to Being a Trans Activist
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A Timeline of Women Living With HIV: Mainstream Recognition in the New Millennium
Our slide show on the history of women in the HIV community continues with the stories of women in the 2000s, many of whom were finally able to make their voices heard on larger stages.
A Timeline of Women Living With HIV: Turning Up the Volume on Women's Voices in the 1990s
In this installment of our decade-by-decade glimpse of how the HIV pandemic has impacted – and been impacted by – women, we take a tour of the tumult and tremendous change of the 1990s.
A Timeline of Women Living With HIV: A Small but Growing Chorus in the 1980s
From Sandra Ford, a drug technician who published the first reports of AIDS, to Elizabeth Glaser, a pioneer of HIV/AIDS activism, women played crucial roles – though they were often also devastatingly mistreated – during the early years of the HIV pa…
A Timeline of Women Living With HIV: Past, Present and Future -- 1988
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- The New Jersey Women and AIDS Network is founded. Revised NIH guidelines suggest "by gender" analy...
A Timeline of Women Living With HIV: Past, Present and Future -- Introduction
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This timeline was originally written in 2001. It is a living document that has been updated over the yea...