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On June 5, 1981, the scientific community received a wake-up call from the CDC in the form of a terrible new illness that the world would soon know as AIDS. Three decades later, remarkable progress has been made, but much more remains to be understood and to be done. In this audiobook, we explore where the disease came from, how it works, how it spreads, the search for a vaccine, and cultural and sociological factors.

“H=H, the H is for Human, the podcast that centers on the human in HIV” presents content on the human side of HIV research education, affirming Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC), and sexual gender minority communities disproportionately impacted by HIV. The H is for Human will interconnect communities, HIV/AIDS Research Networks, the Division of AIDS (DAIDS), and the Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination (HANC).H=H is sponsored by the Legacy Project of the Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination.  

Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong. And that mistaken understanding of AIDS and its cause has the potential to affect all of us, not just certain so-called risk groups. Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system.

A selection of powerful stories from our audiobook "Love  Loss & Life", representative  of the collection of 22 essays, reflections, and testimonies of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Introduced by the iconic actress Anita Dobson, these are the real stories of individuals who lived and breathed the HIV/AIDS story and who are prepared to discuss ideas and explore the social history of their lives. Each individual story sheds light on the silence and secrets of the past 40 years whilst introducing listeners to the positives that came out of the pandemic, describing how a community stood together and ...

La storia del virus HIV e dell'epidemia di AIDS scoppio all'inizio degli anni Ottanta come un incubo, una spirale di paura e morte che sconvolse il mondo, convertendosi nella più grande epidemia dell'era moderna. Lo sviluppo di farmaci e terapie sempre più efficaci, accompagnati da campagne massicce di prevenzione hanno aiutato, negli ultimi anni, a mantenere relativamente sotto controllo la diffusione dell'epidemia e ad aumentare la durata e la qualità di vita delle persone che convivono con l'HIV/AIDS.