Power & Community - #23: Special Edition - Sexual Health and HIV Preventative Care

#23: Special Edition - Sexual Health and HIV Preventative Care

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05/08/21 • 34 min

Power & Community

Medical research and medicine have made living with HIV/AIDS possible. Now, science focuses heavily on the prevention of transmission. Nurse Practitioner Kathryn Meyers walks us through the current medications for HIV/AIDS and the prevention methods available to everyone today.
About Kathryn Meyer:
Kathryn (Kat) Meyer, BA, RN, MSN, CNM, DNP, BC-FNP has worked in sexual health for over 20 years. She has been at Metro for years specializing in sexually transmitted infections (STIs). For the past five years, she has been focused on getting information on PrEP to the people who could be on it and combating the rise of syphilis. She is also watching the emergence of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea with some anxiety. When not educating about, diagnosing, or treating STIs, she is usually embarrassing her children in front of their friends by... talking about STI's. Kat can be reached, and an appointment for the PrEP clinic can be made at 216-778-8305.

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#22: Special Edition - Breaking Down Myths, HIV/AIDS 101 w/ AKeem Rollins

Art of Me is partnering with the HIV/AIDS Collaborative to empower our listeners with sexual health prevention methods for HIV/AIDS. AKeem, a PrEP Navigator and sexual health educator at MetroHealth, gives us the rundown about what HIV is, debunks stigma, and challenges us to keep sexual health at the forefront of our everyday lives.
About AKeem:
AKeemjamal Rollins is a sexual health educator and writer from Cleveland, OH. He first began educating himself and his peers on HIV/AIDS and other STIs with The Street Crew of Greater Cleveland at the LGBT Community Center. As a safer sexual health educator, he has worked for Kaiser Permanente, City Year Cleveland, The LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland, Recovery Resources, and MetroHealth System where he is currently a PrEP Navigator. While not teaching sexual health, AKeem is a poet working on two book, Post Traumatic Hood Disorder and The Lynching of the God Ghost.

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Dr. Ann Avery discusses with us the systemic and economical issues concerning HIV/AIDs and how she and her colleges at MetroHealth work to close the gap between those who can and can’t afford healthcare because of income, status, race, and other reasons.