"Girl, Positive" on Lifetime 
The Lifetime Original Movie "Girl, Positive" will premiere June 25 at 9pm ET/PT, in advance of National HIV Testing Day (June 27). The movie's tagline is "Everyone is connected. No one is immune." It addresses teenagers' awareness and misconceptions of HIV, by focusing on an average high school senior who discovers that she may be infected. Lifetime's synopsis:
Seventeen-year-old Rachel is as stunned as anyone when word spreads through her upper-middle-class community that Jason, a popular athlete who recently died, was an IV drug user. But it's the next bomb that really hits home: Jason, a former intimate partner, may have been HIV positive. Wanting to learn more about HIV, Rachel is urged to visit the local AIDS clinic by a substitute teacher, Sarah, but is too scared to face up to the possibility that she may be infected. So Rachel confides her fears to Sarah, who reveals that she has been secretly living with HIV for more than seven years. Unfortunately, secrets have a way of getting out--and both women soon learn that gossip, like disease, can spread swiftly.
Read more and watch the trailer for Girl, Positive at RH Reality Check--and tune in to Lifetime on Monday at 9pm.
KEYWORDS: HIV, reproductive health, media, television, teens
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