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Heather Boerner

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Nonfiction, Ebooks, Science

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May 2014

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Heather Boerner is a longtime journalist whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine, Al Jazeera America, KPBS, Better Homes and Gardens and BETABlog, among other publications. She is the recipient of a Dennis A. Hunt Grant for Health Care Journalism, for a series on undocumented immigrants and healthcare, and is the winner of an Apex Award of Excellence and an Award of Excellence in Health Care Journalism from the Association of Health Care Journalists. She specializes in storytelling that examines how people make the very difficult decisions required to care for themselves and their loved ones. When not working, she spends time breaking up fights between cantankerous cats Quinn and F ...more

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Average rating: 4.76 · 17 ratings · 8 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Positively Negative: Love, Pregnancy, and Science's Surprising Victory Over HIV 4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Here's to an Amazing 2014 for HIV-Affected Families!

It's the end of 2014, and I can't end this year without thanking you for an amazing year. It started with promise that this article I'd written--that I'd fought for and pursued for years--would finally be seen by the public. Then there was the name change (from HIV and Baby Makes Three to Positively Negative), some behind-the-scenes stressors and then--voila! In July, the book was su