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Hooking Up with Dr. B & Rasheed

Hooking Up with Dr. B & Rasheed

Hooking Up with Dr. B and Rasheed brings together Dr. Adele Schwartz Benzaken, a physician and sexual health expert who has pretty much heard it all, and Rasheed Gonga, a gay man just trying to live his best life.
Together, they’re talking about sex, pleasure, relationships, sexual health, and all the wonderfully awkward questions that come with being human. From hookups and orgasms to erections, kinks, STIs, PrEP, and everything in between, no question is too embarrassing and nothing is off limits.
Come for the questions you’ve been afraid to ask. Stay for the answers you didn’t know you needed. Let’s hook up.

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Dr. B

Adele Schwartz Benzaken, MD, PhD, is Medical Director of AHF's Global Program and a physician and public health leader who has spent her career making sexual health care more accessible, practical, and free from judgment. Her first major HIV project focused on sex workers, beginning a lifelong commitment to working alongside people and communities too often overlooked, stigmatized, or excluded from care. Her work has taken her from sex-worker and prison populations to gay communities and other men who have sex with men, as well as Indigenous communities deep in the Brazilian Amazon. Before joining AHF, Dr. Benzaken served as Director of the Brazilian Ministry of Health's Department of HIV, AIDS, Tuberculosis, Viral Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections. She is also a mother of three and proud grandmother of five. Across decades of work in HIV and STI prevention, care, and public health, Dr. Benzaken has built her career around a simple belief: sexual health should be something we can talk about openly, honestly, and without shame.

Rasheed Gonga

Rasheed Gonga is the Associate Director of Legislative Affairs, Advocacy & Community Engagement for the Northern Bureau of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Living openly with HIV since 2017, he has become a sharp public voice on queer health and community accountability, writing and speaking about what it means to take care of each other. He also serves on the boards of several LGBTQ and community health organizations. A Bronx-raised, Vassar-educated Jamaican immigrant, he lives in Newark, New Jersey with his mini schnauzer, Avila.

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