Queen Bee Educates; Redefining Women’s HIV Advocacy
Who is the Queen Bee?
A mother discovers her inner “Queen Bee” and creates a buzz worthy approach to educate women and children about good health and HIV. A honey of a story.
Who is the Queen Bee?
Dr. Andrea Dunn is a mother, a doctor, an active community member and the Founder, CEO, and the “Queen Bee” of Let’s Beehive! Earning her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Howard University and specializing in Pediatric Pharmacy was a hard won dream. While working in pediatrics, she had several experience with infants living with HIV that had a profound effect on her. She saw a lack of education and information and wanted to help her community. She created Let’s Beehive!
What’s Let’s Beehive?
Its a non-profit organization dedicated to educating people HIV. There goal is to collaborate with schools, healthcare agencies, and other community-based organizations to increase HIV awareness. Through effective outreach strategies and innovative risk reduction classes, we strive to empower at risk populations disproportionately affected with HIV/AIDS to make better choices when engaging in sexual encounters in efforts to reduce transmission of new HIV infections.
What’s the Buzz?
She’s just starting a campaign called “PREPALICIOUS” focusing on educating women about Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). She also has a new book coming out called “She is PREPALICIOUS”. With her amazing talent, vision and drive bee-prepared…this is just the bee-ginning.
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Dr. DeJesus Recognized by Orlando Magazine
For the 5th consecutive year, Dr. DeJesus has been recognized by his peers in Orlando Magazine for his work as medical director at Orlando Immunology Center. Dr. DeJesus is a graduate from the University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine. He completed his Internal Medicine training and Infectious Disease fellowship at the Medical College of…
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OIC is now conducting COVID-19 Treatment and Prevention studies in addition to other clinical research trials! Inquire below today!
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Hurricane Ian Closure
Our office will close at 12pm on Wednesday, September 28th and remain closed through Thursday, September 29th due to Hurricane Ian. We will resume seeing patients as soon as it is safe to do so. For updates, please check back here or give us a call. Stay safe!
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Tropical Storm Nicole Closure
Due to tropical storm Nicole, our office will be closed on Thursday, November 10th. All patients with appointments scheduled for Thursday will be seen through a tele-health visit. Those with procedures scheduled may be rescheduled on Friday or early next week. Our team will be reaching out to you to provide more details. We will resume…
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Charlotte-Paige Rolle, M.D. and Federico Hinestrosa, M.D. featured on Spectrum News 13
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