SisterReach Makes HIV Support Accessible to Black Women
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Due to a personal experience with racist medical care, Cherisse Scott understands firsthand the ways in which Black women are neglected within reproductive health. Her organization SisterReach seeks to both mitigate the harm that occurs when medical care fails the already marginalized and innovate better modalities of reproductive care for Black women and Black LGBTQ people.
Founded in 2011, SisterReach is a grassroots 501c3 nonprofit that supports the reproductive autonomy of women and teens of color, poor and rural women, LGBTQIA+ people, and their families through the framework of reproductive justice, a public health movement that champions culturally competent and trauma-informed medical care. Historically, Black women, women of color, and LGBTQ people have been abused and dismissed by reproductive health care. By centering the voices and needs of marginalized communities, practitioners of reprod