Pulitzer Center Update

This Week: The End of AIDS?

NewsHour Still

Still from the July 11, 2016 PBS NewsHour broadcast.

The End of AIDS?
William Brangham, Jason Kane, and Jon Cohen

While Durban, South Africa, prepared for the 21st International AIDS Conference, PBS NewsHour launched a six-part series on “The End of AIDS?” Pulitzer Center grantees William Brangham, Jon Cohen and Jason Kane investigate successful efforts in San Francisco, New York state and Africa, from providing housing for the homeless who are HIV+ to significantly reducing mother-to-child transmission.

All this in stark contrast to the challenges faced by Atlanta, a city where “if current trends persist, half of gay and bisexual black men will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetimes—half.”

To share with students see the End of AIDS lesson plan.

This reporting was made possible through the support of the M∙A∙C AIDS Fund and other donors.

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