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Your Fertile Years - What You Need to Know to Make Informed Choices by Professor Joyce Harper
Your Fertile Years - What You Need to Know to Make Informed Choices by Professor Joyce Harper

Your Fertile Years

When Joyce was in her twenties she started working in the field of fertility and she often had conversations with friends about their bodies and their fertility.  At this time she read ‘Ourbody, ourselves’ and felt it was a book that every woman should read…

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Your Joyful Years

In Your Joyful Years, Professor Joyce Harper provides an empowering, evidence-based guide to thriving beyond 50. Moving past the menopause, this book reframes later life as a vibrant new beginning—a time to rediscover purpose and prioritise self-care. Combining 40 years of scientific expertise with the candid wisdom of 50 inspiring women, Professor Harper offers a reassuring roadmap to health, happiness, and living authentically. This is the essential second book in her life-stage trilogy, proving that your best years are still to come.

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Dr Shema Tariq
Dr Shema Tariq
Dr Shema Tariq
Episode 12 – 21 JUNE

Dr Shema Tariq: Mothering against the odds: surviving infertility, baby loss & postnatal depression

In this podcast Professor Joyce Harper will be interviewing guests to discuss all things health related and debunking some of the many myths around our health.

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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 well-being of women living 3with 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 the 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 baby loss. 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, baby loss, 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 medical advances have improved lives. 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.

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