Minority Healthcare Communications Inc. (MHCC) is a non-profit health education organization, focused entirely on the creation and promotion of specialized healthcare education conferences, seminars, and workshops on HIV/AIDS and Cancer in the African-American and Latino Communities.
Minority Healthcare Communications Inc. (MHCC) is a non-profit health education organization, focused entirely on the creation and promotion of specialized healthcare education conferences, seminars, and workshops on HIV/AIDS and Cancer in the African-American and Latino Communities.
Reinventing HIV prevention for the digital age, the series combines the popularity and interactivity of online video with the power of research-based education methods designed to challenge misconceptions and prompt critical thinking. The website includes tools that allow viewers to easily share the videos with friends, as well as links to additional resources on HIV prevention, talking about HIV with partners, testing, and care.
The Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) was established in August of 1993 to investigate the impact of HIV infection on women in the U.S. The core portion of the study includes a detailed and structured interview, physical and gynecologic examinations, and laboratory testing.
This guide describes information on gynecologic problems associated with HIV, and describes the psychosocial, psychiatric, and pharmacological considerations associated with the disease. It discusses adolescents and HIV, HIV and reproduction, and palliative and end-of-life care.
Since the beginning of time, women have had to fight for recognition. Women had to fight to vote. Women had to fight to work. Women even had to fight to wear the clothes they liked. Twenty years ago women were fighting off unusual symptoms. Twenty years ago women were fighting to be diagnosed. Twenty years ago women were fighting to stay alive.
As a response to the increasing number of women prisoners affected by or infected with HIV/AIDS, NMAC has developed, and published, this informative booklet, which summarizes the impact of HIV/AIDS on women prisoners, as well as describe programs specifically designed to meet their needs. The mission of this booklet is to provide service providers, advocates, community-based organizations (CBOs) and prisoners, themselves, with the information necessary to establish effective and quality services for addressing HIV/AIDS among women prisoners.
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