Toronto program focuses on pregnant HIV-positive women

The Globe and Mail

It was after dark about two years ago when midwife Jay MacGillivray got a phone call from staff at St. Michael's Hospital, where she works, asking her to help care for an HIV-positive patient who had just arrived and was in labour.

The woman had shown up that night after being sent away from another hospital in the Toronto area. She was having contractions and had been in the middle of a fetal monitor test when the on-call doctor at the first hospital learned that she was HIV-positive – and discharged her almost immediately. She was told within earshot of other patients to find her own way to St. Michael’s, where a midwife who specializes in working with HIV-positive women would care for her.
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