HIVE (the San Francisco-based hub of positive sexual and reproductive health) and the AIDS Foundation Chicago’s (AFC) Midwest HIV Pregnancy Prevention and Planning Initiative (MHPPPI) co-created a video series about HIV-affected individuals and couples and reproductive health intentions – real life vignettes of #HIVLoveWins stories.
Rebecca Schwartz, LCSW, HIVE’s “special sauce” is interviewed by her former client, Caroline Watson, to honor Becca on World Social Work Day 2016.
Dr. Judy Levison’s response to the Texas Department of State Health Services decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood.
My partner sits on the table in our gynecologist’s office undressed for her annual exam. The hospital gown is flapping open around her back when our gynecologist says that given my partner’s age, health history, and low risk factors, she can skip the pap smear…
I decided that if media, doctors, public health officials were determined to withhold this life-saving information from others, then I was going to do something, anything, to change it.
I didn’t want my work week to go like this, but by Monday afternoon it was clear that much of it would be spent talking about Charlie Sheen’s disclosure that he is HIV positive.