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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]
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 ...
Jako became a self-described "HIV poster girl," making appearances on television and radio to raise awareness of the virus. She appeared on the ABC Afterschool Special called Sex Unplugged, a Glamour article on HIV-positive women and their HIV-negative partners, and in 1996 was interviewed on The Jenny Jones Show. [3]
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.
Miss HIV is a feature-length documentary by Ethnographic Media, released to DVD on August 26, 2008. Written and directed by Jim Hanon (Beyond the Gates of Splendor, End of the Spear), and produced by Mart Green, the film explores the international collision of HIV/AIDS policies while following the journey of two HIV-positive women who enter a pageant in Botswana.
Ruby Franke, the Utah mom behind the now-defunct family YouTube channel "8 Passengers," was arrested Wednesday on child abuse charges after authorities found a malnourished minor with open wounds ...
I'm Pregnant and... is an American reality television series broadcast on Discovery Fit & Health. The series tells the stories of women who face serious emotional, physical or mental issues or circumstances during their pregnancies. [1] The ellipsis in the series title acts as a blank, filled in by the title of the week's episode; e.g.: "I'm ...