When Dogs Heal: Powerful Stories of People Living with HIV and the Dogs That Saved Them is a powerful portrait of a diverse group of HIV-positive people and their canine companions.
The book highlights how dogs offer not only numerous health benefits to people — including decreased blood pressure and cholesterol levels — but significant mental health boosts as well.
The ability of dogs to combat loneliness is especially important these days, as many struggle on their own during the COVID-19 pandemic.When Dogs Heal is a group effort created by writer Christina Garofalo, award-winning dog photographer Jesse Freidin, adolescent HIV specialist Dr.