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A week isn't enough! And, here is a list of activities to honor Black Maternal Health, compiled by @Glamarys Acevedo at the Black Women’s Health and Livelihood Initiative. https://blackmamasmatter.org/bmhw/

A beautiful resource full of free meditations specifically for Black Mamas, created by a Black Mama, @Nathalie Walton https://expectful.com/black-mamas-meditate/

It is Black Maternal Health Week! And...Addressing racism in maternal health and birthing experiences in the US deserves and requires attention and energy EVERY SINGLE DAY. This panel discussion is potent, powerful and a MUST-WATCH. Thank you Drs. Karen A Scott, @Joia Crear-Perry, @Alisha Liggett, @Gail Wyatt, Kimberle Crenshaw for sharing your wisdom and pushing us all to do our part. https://youtu.be/rAOkaEfCqU0

For today’s #HealthyHIVE, we get to send some love to our necks and backs thanks to the talented and generous Aska Yoshizu of Lotus Seeds Therapy.

"Birth is a sacred experience. Being pregnant during COVID-19 should not change that. You deserve to be supported, you deserve to have your many feelings acknowledged, you deserve to have the pregnancy that you envisioned for yourself." HIVE Program Manager Cynthia Gutierrez reaches out to other people pregnant during a pandemic in Culturas. https://culturas.us//a-letter-to-a-pregnant-person-during/

On #WorldSocialWorkDay, we are grateful for all the ways that HIVE social worker Becca Schwartz shows up for our clients. Thank you!

"We can very accurately detect the presence of HIV in patients about 10 days after HIV transmission occurs. There is absolutely nothing that justifies this ban." Dr. Monica Hahn of HIVE on the FDA's blood donation restrictions in @KQED https://www.kqed.org//stigma-not-science-behind-fda-restri

Tomorrow! Join us to hear Ina Park of California Prevention Training Center in conversation about her new book "Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History and Surprising Secrets of STDs" with HIVE’s Dr. Deborah Cohan. https://ucsf.zoom.us//191612218/WN_8F0USjcCTSaHx9HT_fBJvA

The Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center and the Denver Prevention Training Center present: Register here:https://paetc.wpengine.com/event-calend/event-information/ Adapting HIV Service for Youth During COVID-19 and Beyond... Friday, February 12, 2021 9:30-11:00 am Pacific/10:30 am - 12:00 pm Mountain Subject Matter Experts include: Ezra Bisom-Rapp, Health Education Coordinator, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland LaMar Yarborough, Hype 2 Empower Dr. Daniel H. Reirden MD, FAAP, FACP, AAHIVS, Children’s Hospital, Colorado Facilitated by: JaDawn Wright, MA, Deputy Director, Pacific AIDS Education & Training Center Learning Objectives: Explore the landscape for youth access to HIV services, including sexual health education, prevention, and care Discuss the barriers and facilitators for youth transitioning from adolescent to adult HIV care and services Identify strategies for youth to assist with clinical engagement, specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic Identify and brainstorm resources to support youth focused HIV program can implement to support continued access to services Description: According to the CDC, In 2018, youth aged 13 to 24 made up 21% of the 37,832 new HIV diagnoses in the United States (US) and dependent areas. Youth with HIV are the least likely of any age group to be retained in care and have a suppressed viral load. Addressing HIV in youth requires that young people have access to the information and tools they need to make healthy decisions and reduce their risk for getting HIV, and to get treatment and stay in care if they have HIV. This webinar will examine the landscape for youth engagement in HIV care services along with identifying key components for service providers to consider as a client/patient centered approach. Our panel of subject matter experts will discuss barriers and facilitators when providing HIV services to youth, and discuss strategies to assist with clinical engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The biggest barrier her low-income Black and Latinx patients face is "the plague of white supremacy that has sickened this nation for hundreds of years and has manifested anew during the COVID-19 pandemic," writes Ana Delgado of @BixbyUCSF in @businessinsider http://bit.ly/3cRyAJE

Since 1999, the Black AIDS Institute has led the fight to end HIV in Black America. We The People and its 4 Pillars are a strategy rooted in racial justice to end HIV by centering Black people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5m1MsmauaI&feature=youtu.be Learn about We the People here: https://blackaids.org/we-the-people/

U.K. to Ease Rules on Blood Donations by Gay and Bisexual Men. HIVE was a part of the medical professionals have said the changes did not go far enough, with a group of more than 500 doctors, researchers and public health specialists in the United States signing a letter calling on the authorities to eliminate the constraints. https://www.nytimes.com//gay-bisexual-blood-donors-uk.html

Hello #healthyhive Community, Today's mediation is brought to you by East Bay Meditation Center Teacher is Noliwe Alexander: Waking Up, Calming the Mind, Holding the Duality of Our Times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEUQDLq0PUA... In Community, Cynthia See more

#HealthyHIVE Meditation Monday featured the BIPOC wellness resource from Insight Santa Cruz POC Monday Group: https://www.insightsantacruz.org//people-of-color-group-/ Healthy HIVE occurs every Monday at 12pm as a virtual space to engage in mindfulness meditation for everyone! Join us next week

Join California Latinas for Reproductive Justice for a virtual day of action today urging Governor Newsom on social media to support the budget request to establish the Forced Sterilization Compensation Program. Between 1909-1979 CA sterilized at least 20,000 people - a third of eugenics sterilizations nationwide. California led the nation in the eugenics movement and MUST lead in reckoning with its violent legacy. Gavin Newsom it’s time to #CompensateSurvivors of forced ste...rilizations and #EndEugenicsLegacy https://bit.ly/sterilizationcompensationtoolkit [ID: Bright yellow text on a black background that says, Rosie Zaballos had a developmental disability and, at age 16, was sterilized at Sonoma State Home, just a few days before her 17th birthday. Rosie died during her sterilization procedure. In the words of her niece: I wanted there to be a record that this girl, at 16 years old, died because of a government policy- a policy that told people that this is what you do when you have somebody with a developmental disability. -Eugenics Sterilization Legacy Survivor]

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We reviewed more than 100 heat and climate change adaptation plans or associated documents but found only a couple of references to pregnancy, said Skye Wheeler, senior women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. Pregnant people, and especially Black and brown people, need to be at the table as we tackle the multiple harms to health from increasing heat. https://www.hrw.org//us-heat-emergency-plans-missing-pregn#

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: On December 1, 2020, World AIDS Day, The Well Project - HIV and women and the International Community of Women Living with HIV - North America are issuing a joint press release announcing the launch of the Expert Consensus Statement on Breastfeeding and HIV in the United States and Canada and urging the endorsement of community stakeholders. The statement is co-authored by 21 multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral experts calling for parents living with ...HIV to have access to the information, support, and tools they need to make informed infant-feeding decisions. Our organizations, which focus on the health and well-being of women living with HIV, are releasing the statement in conjunction with #WorldAIDSDay to elevate an important gap impacting the HIV community. We invite all individual and organizational stakeholders working in HIV and intersectional communities (including gender justice, women’s health, reproductive justice, and others) to review and sign onto the full statement and consider how this information relates to your work. #WAD2020 #thewellproject #ICWNA #breastfeeding https://www.thewellproject.org//expert-consensus-statement

Healing Our Hearts: A Night of Latinx Storytelling Register now! This community event is part of Speaking Story, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice story collection project dedicated to collecting reproductive justice stories and those of our communities. They seek to create a cultural shift in public narratives surrounding Latina/x's in a way that continues to honor reproductive health experiences and where we, our familias, and our youth can find ourselves and vali...date our own experiences. This will be a virtual event and open to all. https://californialatinas.ourpowerbase.net/civi/event/info

#HealthyHIVE Mediation Monday featured the BIPOC wellness resource from NY Insight POC Sangha Monday, October 19th @ 7pm EST/ 4pm PST with guest teacher Devin Berry... *** "I can’t stop pointing to the beauty" The brahamavihara’s as an expression of the wisdom of the liberation narrative *** Click here for more contemplations from Devin Heal the Wounds and Trauma Deep Time Liberation Retreat ** NEW ZOOM LINK: Join our sangha via Zoom: http://bit.ly/nyipoc Meeting ID: 895 2597 1179 Passcode: 123 Or, dial by your location +16465588656,,719498730# US (New York) Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdx7GxkQXP ** Make a Donation Please donate via PayPal (indicate in the note section that it is for NYI Teacher Dana) or use the form below. All proceeds will support this sangha’s teacher(s) and other NYI teacher support. If you are using a mobile device such as a phone or tablet, you can scroll right and left and up and down within the form below if it is partially obscured or cut off. Please contact [email protected] if you need assistance. Suggested starting donation is $15 but whatever you offer is greatly appreciated and no one is ever turned away for lack of funds. Healthy HIVE occurs every Monday at 12pm as a virtual space to engage in mindfulness meditation for everyone! Join us next week

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Portraits Of Resilience: How 19 Women Around The Globe Face The Pandemic Life is hard for everyone during a pandemic. But in a global crisis, it is women who carry extra burdens, says Raquel Lagunas, director of the gender team at the United Nations Development Programme. "Because of their reproductive role in society, they are ones taking care of the kids, the house, the food, the survival of families." Over the span of three weeks in September and October, NPR photographed ...and interviewed 19 women around the world. They shared their challenges and fears and how they are overcoming them. https://www.npr.org//portraits-of-resilience-how-19-women-

#HealthyHIVE will not have a mindfulness mediation today. Instead, we will use our platform to uplift #IndigenousPeoplesDay2020. Giving thanks for the beautiful Ohlone land that we occupy and honoring the resistance of all indigenous people! The video posted below is from the 2017 Sunrise Ceremony on Alcatraz Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JYZu9oCVjw

No Más Bebés film is about a group of Mexican immigrant women who filed suit after they were sterilized while giving birth at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. All proceeds from the week of Oct 3-10 will be donated to California Latinas for Reproductive Justice! #ThisIsRJ #reproductivejustice https://vimeo.com/ondemand/nomasbebes

HIVE is excited to support the Black Mamas Matter Alliance: Advancing the Human Right to Safe and Respectful Maternal Health Care. A toolkit from BMMA and the Center for Reproductive Rights offering a state policy framework for the right to safe and respectful maternity care. https://www.reproductiverights.org//USPA_BMMA_Toolkit_Book

#HealthyHIVE Mediation Monday featured the BIPOC wellness resource from Rev. angel Kyodo williams with Resmaa Menakem. They will be in conversation and celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Being Black: Zen and Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace. Healthy HIVE occurs every Monday at 12pm as a virtual space to engage in mindfulness meditation for everyone! Join us next week

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