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Behavior Changes From Patients And Doctors Recommended For HIV Prevention

In the campaign to prevent HIV and sexually transmitted infections, counselors like Chief Odood are on the frontlines.

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HIV In King County: Infection Rates Dropping For Men Who Have Sex With Men

Ross Reynolds talks with Dr. Matthew Golden about HIV infection rates in King County. Golden directs the HIV/STD control program at King County Public Health.

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Don't Stop 'Til You Reach The Summit

Join Esa Tilija and Meghan O'Kelley for an inspiring podcast about individuality and living life to the fullest. Meghan shares how autistic high schooler Lorenzo learned to express himself through an...

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'We Are Always Learning': HIV Researcher On The Hope Of Finding A Cure For HIV

Jeannie Yandel speaks with Dr. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, who is credited with discovering the HIV virus in 1983, about the early days of HIV/AIDS research, and why she's hopeful that a cure can be...

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A Death Sentence Turns Into A Call Of The Wild

Leo Egashira, 60, is no stranger to death. He once saw his life flash before him when chased by a thousand-pound muskox in Greenland. However, he had an even scarier encounter when he received an HIV...

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King County Orders HIV-Positive Man To Stop Infecting Partners

Marcie Sillman speaks with SeattlePI.com reporter Levi Pulkkinen about why King County Public Health officials decided to place an HIV-positive man under court supervision.

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A Happy Marriage, A Terrible Secret, A Healthy Baby

Phelokazi Tinzi met the man of her dreams at a barbecue.She was 28 years old, and visiting her cousin in Cape Town, when her future husband approached her. "He told me I was beautiful, but I thought he...

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The Guy Who Delivers HIV Medicine On His Bicycle

He was sitting in a clinic. Waiting. And waiting. And waiting for his grandparents' HIV medicine.Sizwe Nzima was a high school student in Cape Town, South Africa, when he would pick up the medicine for...

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Inslee Wants To Cut New HIV Infections By Half In 2020

Washington Governor Jay Inslee says by the year 2020, he wants to cut the number of new HIV infections in half.

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Advocates Say FDA Change In Blood Donation Policy Doesn't Go Far Enough

Jeannie Yandel talks to Randall Russell, CEO of Lifelong, about the FDA's announcement that it will recommend the lifting of a ban on gay and bisexual men who want to donate blood. The decision will be...

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Indiana's HIV Spike Prompts New Calls For Needle Exchanges Statewide

Shane Avery practices family medicine in Scott County, Ind. In December, a patient came to his office who was pregnant, and an injection drug user.After running some routine tests, Avery found out that...

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British Columbia HIV Treatment And Prevention Seeing Great Success

Marcie Sillman speaks with Vaughn Palmer, columnist for the Vancouver Sun, about successes in British Columbia's fight against HIV and AIDS.

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Transgender Women Face Inadequate Health Care, 'Shocking' HIV Rates

Transgender people are not getting adequate health care, and widespread discrimination is largely to blame, according to a recent World Health Organization report. And the story is told most starkly in...

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Seattle Researchers Engineer HIV-Resistant T Cell

Ross Reynolds speaks with Dr. David Rawlings, director of the Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies at Seattle Children's Research Institute, about how his team pioneered a breakthrough gene-editing...

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These Are The Faces Of People Facing HIV/AIDS: #WorldAidsDay

There's a place in the city of Tijuana, Mexico, called El Bordo, which has always been somewhat reminiscent of a post-apocalyptic movie scene. The name comes from "the border," which is where it's...

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HIV-Positive Organ Transplants Set To Begin At Johns Hopkins

Earlier this week, officials at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore announced they had received approval to begin conducting the first organ transplants from HIV-positive...

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New Source Of Transplant Organs For Patients With HIV: Others With HIV

When a Connecticut woman who was HIV-positive died earlier this month, her family decided to donate her organs to others who needed them.Doctors in Maryland announced Wednesday that they performed two...

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Why Healthy Teens Are Taking A Daily Anti-AIDS Pill

Every night at 8 p.m., 18-year-old Catherine Msimango takes a pill.It's the same pill that people with HIV take to fight the virus. Only she doesn't have HIV.Msimango says the pill gives her power...

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The HIV Trap: A Woman's Lack Of Control

When you're pregnant, going to the doctors can be exciting. You get to find out if you're having a boy or a girl. Maybe hear the baby's heart beat.But in southern Africa, many women find out something...

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Researchers Clear 'Patient Zero' From AIDS Origin Story

It's one of the biggest medical mysteries of our time: How did HIV come to the U.S.?Scientists say they have figured out when and where the virus first arrived here by genetically sequencing samples...

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