A Family Affair Living Our Best Life

A Family Affair Living Our Best Life A Family Affair is dedicated to meeting the emotional, physical, and spiritual needs of black women l Founded in 2005 and became incorporated in April 2020.

A Family Affair Living Our Best Life is a Black-led organization for HIV+ Black Women with a priority focus on women over fifty in the Rural South. Mission-A Family Affair Living Our Best Life (AFA) mission is to broaden support for Black Women living with HIV in the rural South. We accomplish this mission by applying innovative approaches and practices to build Black Women’s resilience to cope wi

th HIV and their emotional, spiritual, and physical needs. Vision-AFA envisions a world where women of color living with HIV can live full, healthy, productive, and personally satisfying lives across their lifespan. Motto- Let's Pray About It and Be About It- Faith Without Works Is Dead

Values-AFA values integrity, accountability, communications, transparency, unity and empathy.

With Positive Women's Network - USA – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉
03/31/2026

With Positive Women's Network - USA – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

03/31/2026

Investing in Black-led movements has been a core part of our work for decades—we trust those closest to the issues to know the solutions for their communities.

Our grantee partners are building collective power for a more equitable future for us all.



Featuring African-American Roundtable, A Family Affair Living Our Best Life, TWOC Healing Project

03/31/2026

"On the subject of NWGHAAD, Sisterhood looks like a place of inclusion for all women & girls to be aware HIV and AIDS is still here and on the rise in Black & brown communities. It still doesn’t discriminate. I only wish that when I was 19 the information would have been more clear and prevalent instead of 'don't catch That Thang' or 'she or he got that fire.' That's just a tip of the stigma it carries. But today, we have better understanding through science of the medication, peer-led lived experience, and PrEP. We have the opportunity to be informed properly on how it's contracted. My hope is when you meet a woman of lived experience, allow them the platform to educate at your church, social gatherings, women's groups, doctor's office meetings, community meetings, legislative gatherings, and parent meetings so that young girls and women are equipped with the message of awareness & protecting themselves. As the saying goes from Anne Isabella Ritchie in 19th-century England: 'If you give a man a fish, he's hungry again in an hour. But if you teach him to catch fish, you do him a good turn.' And through this sisterhood I have been done a good turn." - Lizzie Bellamy; She/Her; South Carolina



March 10 is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day ( ). We encourage you to help raise awareness of NWGHAAD by accessing and sharing our social media toolkit at bit.ly/NWGHAAD2026. Please also read and share the joint statement from The Well Project and Positive Women's Network - USA at: bit.ly/NWGHAADstatement.

03/31/2026

SIX-STRAIGHT FINAL FOURS FOR SOUTH CAROLINA 🔥

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03/12/2026

New Episode: Dr. P On The Pod
Women Who Soar: Legacy, Purpose, and the Power of Pathmakers

Dr. P welcomes Sharvette Mitchell, CEO of Mitchell Productions and creator of the trademarked framework THE PLATFORM BUILDER®, for a powerful conversation about building legacy, walking in purpose and creating pathways for others to rise.

In this inspiring episode, Dr. P and Sharvette explore what it means to soar with intention, honor your legacy and become the kind of leader who opens doors for the next generation.

Tune in for a conversation about vision, courage and the power of building platforms that create lasting impact. Click here to listen now: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1910135/episodes/18833230


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Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions is co-producing a Broadway revival of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof, starring Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle in their Broadway debuts, d…

03/12/2026

BWHI is proud to support Deliver Us, , a powerful new documentary premiering this weekend in the Bay Area.

This film pulls back the curtain on the racial bias Black mothers experience during childbirth told through the voices of Black midwives and the mothers in their care.

At the heart of the story is Kindred Space, the only Black-owned and operated birth center in Los Angeles, and its founder Kimberly Durdin, who is working to create safe, affirming spaces for Black families in a system that too often fails them.

In a country with incredible medical advancement, Black mothers are still 3–4 times more likely to die during childbirth than their white peers. That is not a coincidence. That is systemic.
Deliver Us explores the history, the disparities, the racism, and the resilience, while centering the people building solutions.

If you’re in the Bay Area, check out the world premiere this weekend at the Cinequest Film Festival. And consider donating to support the film’s production and the Black mothers and midwives it uplifts. https://share.google/ziQ7w8OlY6hrtuROY

Because storytelling is advocacy. And advocacy saves lives.

03/12/2026

Lauren Wesley Wilson’s best-selling career guide What Do You Need? is now available in paperback, offering women of color practical tools for career ownership at a time when Black women& #8217…

03/12/2026

Dr. David J. Johns sits down with fellow TIME Magazine 2025 "Closer" Dr. Monique Couvson, President and CEO of Grantmakers for Girls of Color. Dr. Couvson has m

03/12/2026

March 10th is NWGHAAD (National Women's and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day), and this is also Women's History Month, so I would like to tell you about one woman in particular who was called "the Cemetery Angel".

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Orangeburg, SC
29115

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 3pm - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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+18035968120

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