In Jamaica, a health reporter's grief over her father's stigmatized death became, twenty-five years later, an organization that asks the question medicine rarely does: what does a girl actually need to survive? Dr. Patricia Watson and EVE for Life have spent nearly two decades learning that HIV treatment without housing safety, mental health support, and trusted human presence is not treatment at all — it is paperwork. Their Mentor Moms Initiative, built on the radical premise that trust is given to a person before it is given to a system, has kept adolescent girls in care that clinics alone c
Jamaica's EVE for Life Model Shows Why Community Leadership Drives HIV/AIDS Care
Adolescent girls and young women living with HIV face compounded vulnerabilities including sexual violence, housing insecurity, and treatment non-adherence driven by abuse and stigma rather than medical non-compliance.
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