One of the successes of the 30-year battle against HIV is the prevention of mother-to-child transmission. Since the mid-1990s, expectant mothers can be treated with medicines that drastically reduce the amount of virus in the mother's body and protect the baby during birth.Thirty years after the discovery of the AIDS virus among gay white men, nearly half of the one million people in the United States infected with HIV are black men, women and children. This groundbreaking FRONTLINE exploration of one of the country’s most urgent, preventable health crises traces the history of the epidemic through the experiences of extraordinary individuals who tell their stories: Nel, a 63-year old grandmother who married a deacon in her church and later found an HIV diagnosis tucked into his Bible; Tom and Keith, survivors who were born with the virus in the early 1990s; and Jovanté, a high school football player who didn’t realize what HIV meant until it was too late.
From Magic Johnson to civil rights pioneer Julian Bond, from pastors to health workers, people on the front lines tell moving stories of the battle to contain the spread of the virus, and the opportunity to turn the tide of the epidemic. The director/producer/writer is Renata Simone, producer of the 2006 award-winning FRONTLINE series “The Age of AIDS.”
FRONTLINE: Endgame: AIDS in Black America, Tuesday at 9 p.m. on PBS-HD 6.
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