By Ruojing Liu
“They saved my life.”
When LeSherri James was pregnant with her first baby in 2003, the homeless 21-year-old HIV positive mother-to-be was not left to face the pregnancy on her own. Anne Statton and the Pediatric AIDS Chicago Prevention Initiative (PACPI) she led was there to help.
The organization helped James through every step of her pregnancy: they made sure she get to doctor’s appointments, filled her prescriptions, set up a perinatal training course to teach her how to take care of her child, helped her secure a health care plan, signed her up for the federal Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, and got her an apartment.
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