Dr Shema Tariq: Mothering against the odds: surviving infertility, baby loss & postnatal depression
Shema is a Senior Research Fellow at UCL’s Institute for Global Health and Honorary Consultant HIV Physician at Mortimer Market Centre. Her research focuses on health inequities in HIV care. In 2014, Shema was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to conduct HIV research at Columbia University. Since coming to UCL in 2015, Shema has built a programme of work focusing on the health and wellbeing of women living with HIV. She leads the PRIME Study, one of the largest studies in the world exploring menopause among women living with HIV. In addition to her research , Shema provides HIV and sexual health care in the NHS. She developed and leads a specialist HIV and menopause service, supporting clinics across the UK to set up similar clinics. She is former Vice-Chair of the national HIV and pregnancy guidelines, and has authored national and European guidelines on managing menopause in women living with HIV. Shema is a Trustee of Positively UK, the UK's leading HIV peer support charity, and Tommy's, which funds research into babyloss. This has allowed her to use her own experience of stillbirth to lobby for change. In this episode, Shema shares her journey to have her two children, where she experienced infertility, fertility treatment, donation, miscarriage, babyloss, and post-natal depression. If you saw this in a TV drama you would think it was too unbelievable. Shema shares her huge experience working with women with HIV and updates us on how lives have been improved with medical advances. Shema is very active on social media and we talk about the ups and downs of being a doctor on social media. And we discuss the importance of reproductive health education. This honest and educational episode will teach you many things. For more information and to access the transcript: https://joyceharper.com/podcasts/
Date of episode recording: 2023-04-12
Duration: 53.55
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Joyce Harper
Guests: Shema Tariq
Producer: Joyce Harper
