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Christine Joy Maggiore (July 25, 1956 – December 27, 2008) was an HIV-positive activist and promoter of HIV/AIDS denialism. [1] [2] She was the founder of Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives, an organization which disputes the link between HIV and AIDS and urges HIV-positive pregnant women to avoid anti-HIV medication. [3]
Dhawale underwent three forced abortions; during the third one in 2005, she contracted HIV due to medical negligence. On her fourth forced attempt, she tested positive, and decided to go ahead with the pregnancy. On March 31, 2006, she delivered a healthy, HIV-negative baby born via Cesarean section. [2]
People who are HIV positive speak about the challenges they face, how dealing with the disease has changed, and their survival stories. As more is being learned and discovered about HIV and AIDS ...
Marvelyn Brown (born May 7, 1984) is an African-American author and AIDS activist. She is the founder of Marvelous Connections, an HIV/AIDS organization founded in 2006. She wrote the autobiography The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive, [1] which tells her story as a young heterosexual woman living with HIV.
If a pregnant woman presents in labor with an unknown HIV status and a positive rapid HIV test result or an infant has a high risk of HIV transmission in utero (for example, the mother was not taking antiretroviral drugs in the pre-pregnancy period or during pregnancy, the mother had not achieved viral suppression, or the mother experienced an ...
American drag queen and HIV activist, competed on the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race and the fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, and became one of the first reality TV stars to come out as HIV positive. [135] Q (born 1998) American drag queen, competed on the sixteenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. [136] Norman René (1951–1996)
Girl, Positive (typically stylized as Girl, Posi+ive) is a 2007 American drama television film directed by Peter Werner, written by Nancey Silvers, and starring Andrea Bowen and Jennie Garth. The film is about a preppy teenage girl who discovers she is HIV positive after a summer one-night stand with a boy.
After observing terrible conditions for HIV positive women inside the prison – including segregation of HIV positive women to a decrepit infirmary unit – and the high degree of misinformation surrounding AIDS, Haslip co-founded ACE inside the prison in 1988 with other incarcerated women including Kathy Boudin and Judith Alice Clark to ...