Photographs by Celia Catalino
The top floor of a medical building located on a hill afforded the exam room of the Women’s HIV Program multimillion-dollar views of the San Francisco skyline, and on this particular December day the views were especially dramatic, with cloudy skies and light rain.
The Women’s HIV Program, part of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Helen Diller Medical Center in the city’s Parnassus Heights neighborhood, is a trauma-informed primary care clinic for women living with HIV. Most of the women served here (240 women at any given point) suffer from very complex medical and social conditions, and nearly all of them have experienced some type of childhood or adult trauma—from sexual and physical abuse or neglect to structural violence such as racism, transphobia, homophobia, or xenophobia. Read More
