The NBWHP created self-help groups specifically for Black women with HIV/AIDS. NBWHP literature on the creation of these groups notes that Black women with AIDS often desire a sense of sisterhood and often the counselors and service providers who visit them in hospitals and shelters are white people without HIV/AIDS. These groups served as spaces for Black women to form community, share information, and provide hope to each other amongst individuals who shared the embodied experience of being Black women.