Pregnancy & HIV/AIDS: Personal Accounts of Getting Pregnant When You're HIV Positive

See also: Becoming Pregnant When You're HIV Positive | HIV and Pregnancy (for information on HIV treatment during pregnancy and preventing transmission to your baby)

A Bisexual, HIV-Positive, Single Father of Five: A Video Blog Entry by Jermaine Wright (August 13, 2011)
"My name is Jermaine Wright and I am a bisexual, HIV-positive, single father of five. If that's not a jaw dropper for ya, I had one of my children while being HIV positive. Here is how it started ..."
From The Body
This Positive Life: An Interview With Shana Cozad (March 17, 2011)
From The Body
Teniecka Drake: Balancing HIV Advocacy, a Husband and Three Young Children (March 7, 2011)
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Jennifer Price: One Story of a Positive Mother -- On POZIAM Radio Sunday, Dec. 19: A Blog Entry by Robert Breining (December 10, 2010)
"For the past decade Jennifer Price has been living with HIV. Her pregnancy with her daughter gave her an even bigger reason to try to reach out to others any way she could."
From The Body
We Do Have a Baby! -- A Blog Entry by Brooke Davidoff (August 16, 2010)
Myles Grady Robertson was born July 15, 2010 -- 7 pounds 4 ounces. ... So far his blood work is back and he's HIV negative!
Parenthood: Expecting the Unexpected -- A Blog Entry by Brooke Davidoff (July 13, 2010)
People want to know what it's like to be pregnant and have HIV. I really don't know. Not to be a smartass, but I've never had one without the other.
From The Body
This Positive Life: An Interview With Esmeralda, Part Two (May 19, 2010)
Esmeralda, 37, forges a successful new path for herself and her children, and manages to find love along the way.
In This Positive Life, from The Body
This Positive Life: An Interview With Esmeralda, Part One (May 19, 2010)
Esmeralda was 25 when her husband died of AIDS, leaving her HIV positive, with one baby and another on the way.
In This Positive Life, from The Body
Personal Perspective: My Babies and Me (Winter 2008)
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
Full Circle: One Woman's Story (September/October 2003)
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Informed Consent? (Summer 2000)
Filmmaker Jennifer Finocchio shares her experiences while putting together a documentary on parents who lose custody of their children for refusing HIV treatment.
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive
Living With HIV: Living Proof (September 1999)
Dawn tells her story about having two children while living with HIV.
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
HIV, Pregnancy, and Me (May 1999)
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
What If ... (October 1998)
An advocate contemplates the past, the future and motherhood.
In AIDS Care, from San Francisco General Hospital
The Toughest Decision I Ever Made (October 1998)
In AIDS Care, from San Francisco General Hospital
"Just Because I'm HIV-Positive, Can't I Bear Children?" (November 25, 1997)
Should a 38-year-old, HIV-positive ex-drug addict have a baby? Patti Radigan thought so -- and a pioneering San Francisco clinic agreed to help her.
From Salon.com
Boosting the Spirit of an HIV-Positive Woman (April 1997)
An African-American HIV-positive woman decides to give birth.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive

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