The Stigma
Yesterday I featured a great series from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on AIDS orphans in the Caribbean. Today I'm turning my attention to the hills and valleys of western New England to highlight an excellent radio series on the struggles of the Latino community with HIV/AIDS. "Voices of HIV" by Francesca Rheannon for WFCR 88.5 describes how the epidemic is hitting the Latino community disproportionately hard. Rheannon looks at how many prevention efforts are failing, why cases among women and teens are rising, how a needle exchange experiment is working and what happens in a jail treatment program. Rheannon manages to present thorough information while letting us hear the voices of people who are struggling on the frontlines of the illness. The radio broadcasts might take a few seconds to open and play for you but are well worth the wait.