The podcast highlights issues women living with HIV experience during pregnancy and throughout their sexual and reproductive health. The importance of language and stigma is discussed and Angelina provides some top tips on how to support women in a clinical setting. The importance of peer support and mentoring is explored within the podcast a long with trauma informed care and holistic approaches to care delivery.

Episode Guest

Originally from Kenya, Angelina has over 24 years’ experience of working in the HIV sector on different initiatives ranging from providing one-to-one support, treatment advocacy, managing service delivery to facilitating, promoting and advocating for the involvement of women living with HIV in forming and informing local and national strategy and policy. A founder member of the 4M Network of Mentor Mothers living with HIV, Angelina also sits on various national and international advisory boards. These include, as a patron of the  National HIV Nurses Association, a lay member of the Women’s Network of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, a member of the organizing Committee of the International annual Women and HIV Workshop, has been a Community Representative for the British HIV Association, and is a Trustee of the National AIDS Trust Salamander Trust and SAFE Kenya. She has co-authored various articles in peer review journals and UNAIDS reports.

Additional Information and Links 

4M Mentor Mothers  https://4mmm.org

HIV Matters Bookstore 

https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/HIVMatters

How to contact the show 

Dr Michelle Croston@ michelle.croston@nottingham.ac.uk

https://hiv-matters.captivate.fm