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Articles by Dafina Ward
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on Southern HIV Service Organizations, Staff, and Clients
1 Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. 1 Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.2 Southern AIDS Coalition, Birmingham, Alabama. Address correspondence to Haley Cooper, Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research, Duke University, 310 Trent Ave., Durham, NC 27708. E-mail: [email protected]
Lee Storrow and Dafina Ward: Preventing new HIV infections
Lee Storrow and Dafina Ward: Preventing new HIV infections The start of 2021 marks a significant time when it comes to policy advocacy in North Carolina and across our country. New members of the N.C. General Assembly and Council of State take their oaths of office, a new administration comes to the White House and policymakers begin the hard work of a new year.
Anything for My Children: A Reflection on Being an HIV-Positive Mom
Lisa Thompson (Credit: Selfie by Lisa Thompson) "What about my baby?" That was the first thing 19-year-old Lisa Thompson thought when she received her HIV diagnosis. She had found out she was pregnant three weeks prior in a clinic appointment, the same appointment during which she had blood drawn because she feared she had also contracted HIV (from the baby's father). The pregnancy test results were immediate, but she was forced to wait several weeks for this call. Pregnant and HIV positive.
A black mom, seeking safe grounds for her daughters
“It’s raining, but the ocean still looks calm. You can’t even tell it’s storming.” My daughter’s observation as we drove along the shoreline in our new city struck me as all too familiar. She had unknowingly found the perfect metaphor for my feelings. We recently relocated to coastal South Carolina, to lush, beautiful beaches and marshlands, to a gated community of pristine homes and a private golf club.
A note to the brother in seat 13D
We spoke of your mama, of your childhood in the “ATL,” of your five sisters and your hopes for them, of your ailing father and the pain of watching him suffer. We connected — because that’s what family does. And then you began to talk about your work and the stress of traveling and managing the needs of your family and divorce and paying college tuition. And as you poured out so much of yourself on our long flight, you had a beer and dark whiskey in a plastic cup — and then another and another.
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