Positive Women: Exposing Injustices

Positive Women: Exposing Injustice is a 45-minute documentary film that tells the personal stories of four women living with HIV in Canada – a Quebecker who was charged for not telling her partner that she had HIV at the beginning of an ultimately abusive relationship, a young woman who chose not to pursue charges against the man who infected her, an Aboriginal woman who has personally faced extreme stigma and threats, and a Latina woman who describes the challenges of disclosure and intimate relationships for women living with HIV. Their stories are real, raw and from the heart, and tell the truth about what it is like to live in a society that all-too-often criminalizes intimate behaviour between consenting adults and discriminates against those living with HIV. Legal experts, doctors, counsellors, and support workers also lend their voices to challenge current Canadian laws that are letting down the very women they are meant to protect. Positive Women: exposing injustice was produced for the HIV Legal Network.

SUPPORT WOMEN'S HEALTH IN WOMEN'S HANDS (WHIWH)

Those who would like to provide additional support can donate to the Women’s Health in Women’s Hands CHC (WHIWH). Donations can be made through the WHIWH donation administrator, CanadaHelps. They can  specifically indicate that their financial support is to go to the "Skills Project-Women living with HIV" whose aim is to strengthen the capacity of African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) women living with HIV/AIDS throughservice coordination/provision of primary health care, health promotion, capacity building and skills development. This program supports more than 350+ women living with HIV at WHIWH. 

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The mandate of WHIWH is to provide primary healthcare to racialized women from the African, Black, Caribbean, Latin American and South Asian communities in Toronto and surrounding municipalities. They are committed to working from an inclusive feminist, pro-choice, anti-racist, anti-oppression, and multilingual participatory framework in addressing the issue of access to healthcare for their mandated priority populations encompassing gender, gender identity, race, class, violence, sexual orientation, religion, culture, language, disability, immigration status and socio-economic circumstances.

More information about the WHIWH and the support they offer can be found here : https://www.whiwh.com/