Girl, Positive

Half of all new HIV infections occur in people under age 25 — one
fourth in people under age 21. — U.S. Office of National AIDS Policy

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.Rachel's world is thrown into a tailspin when she tests positive for HIV. In trying to deal with this frightening news, the high school senior finds an unlikely ally: a substitute teacher who has secretly lived with HIV for years. But gossip, like disease, can spread quickly, and neither woman will be immune to its effects. Andrea Bowen ("Desperate Housewives") and Jennie Garth ("90210") star in this eye-opening drama parents and teens can't afford to miss.

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Director: Peter Werner

Screenplay: Nancey Silvers

Produced: von Zerneck/Sertner Films

Executive-producer: Bob Sertner, Frank von Zerneck, Nancey Silvers

Made: 2007

Genre: Drama