Uncertainty Abounds For Program 'Critical' To HIV, AIDS Care

Rachel Lippmann — Thu, 02 May 2013 21:35:50 +0000

As St. Louis Public Radio has reported before, the region is a tough place for sexual health.

Photography project gives women new perspective on living with HIV

Véronique LaCapra — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:15:08 +0000

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/national/local-national-959177.mp3

More than a million Americans are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. About a quarter of them are women, and in St. Louis and throughout the country, African-American women are disproportionately affected.

An HIV diagnosis can lead not just to debilitating medical problems, but to social stigma and isolation. But as St. Louis Public Radio’s Véronique LaCapra reports, a photography project is giving some HIV-positive women a new way to look at their disease and its challenges.