This article examines, from a gender and human rights perspective, how these forms of violence emerge in perinatal care, how they affect the emotional and clinical experience of women living with HIV, and which institutional and cultural transformations are needed to build a fully respectful and inclusive model of care.

In the heart of a public maternity hospital in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, a multidisciplinary team decided to transform the space where births take place, enhancing the mother’s salutogenic resources stimulated by the environment. This experience, born at the Maternal and Child Hospital of San Isidro, shows that transforming the obstetric care model is possible from within the public system, when there is conviction, care, and a desire for change.