Expert Interviews

HIV Frontlines: Executive Director of New Jersey Women and AIDS Network Talks About Gender Issues and Obstacles to HIV Prevention

Since graduating college in the late '80s, Monique Howard has been working in the HIV/AIDS field. From examining specimens in a lab to implementing HIV risk reduction programming at Beth Israel Hospital to earning a graduate degree in human sexuality, her work has been grounded in understanding how HIV/AIDS impacts women. Now, Howard is the executive director of the New Jersey Women and AIDS Network (NJWAN) in New Brunswick, N.J. She talks with us about her work with NJWAN and the needs of women in the state of New Jersey and across the country.

The "Gender Problem" in HIV Policy Making: No Women at the Table

TheBody.com's news editor, Kellee Terrell, sat down with E. Tyler Crone, J.D., M.P.H., ATHENA's coordinating director, to discuss how sexism plays a negative and impactful role in HIV policy making, and what can be done to ensure that more HIV-positive women get a seat at the table.

HIV Expert Interviews

Five well-respected female doctors sit down with TheBody.com to answer some pressing questions relating to HIV-positive women's health, the biggest issues facing women living with HIV and side effects from treatment.

HIV Education for Pre-Teen Girls in Homeless Shelters

New York City-based Audria Russell, the HIV program coordinator at Women in Need, talks about her work providing services to women who are in need of shelter and HIV prevention and treatment.

HIV Frontlines: An Interview With Kathryn Anastos, M.D.

Kathryn Anastos, M.D., the executive co-director of Women's Equity in Access to Care and Treatment (WE-ACTx), talks about her work in Rwanda providing HIV primary care to women who were infected with HIV during the 1994 genocide.

An Interview With Debbie Hagins, M.D., Clinical Director of a Ryan White Clinic in Georgia

Debbie Hagins, M.D., an HIV specialist who heads a federally funded clinic in Savannah, Ga., discusses her work in HIV research on African-American women and her experiences running a clinic that provides care for over 1,000 people living with HIV.