AIDS

Preventing the spread of AIDS and helping those who are HIV-positive to manage the disease seems like a job for doctors and nurses. The University of Maryland thinks differently.

A vaccine against HIV-AIDS may sound like a medical dream…but researchers in Baltimore say they have one in sight. We talk to Dr. Robert Gallo, founder of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

The legacy of September 11 in America has been perhaps most visible at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. We’ll hear from a Maryland woman who spent just about every Friday performing music for the wounded soldiers until the hospital was closed last summer.

Today, Baltimore’s Commission on HIV and AIDS presents its 2011 strategy to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. We talk with virologist Bill Blattner, who heads the commission. Sheilah talks to Arthur Magida, author of “Nazi Séance: The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler’s Inner Circle.”   The veteran jazz pianist tells Tom Hall how he keeps the tradition of Jelly Roll Morton while still blazing trails with avant-garde icons from Archie Shepp to William Parker.

Could new research on HIV treatment turn the tide of the AIDS epidemic? Plus, a look behind the delays in introducing aquaculture to the Chesapeake. And, the writer Dudley Clendinen speaks with Tom Hall, and his doctor Jeffrey Rothstein, about the different treatment options available for people with ALS — and how his life will change if he decides to try one.

Thirty years after the first reported case of the HIV virus, HIV/AIDS continues to affect Baltimore disproportionately, according to the Baltimore City Health Department. We look at the state of HIV/AIDS, the research at Johns Hopkins, and efforts to address the ongoing epidemic, including National HIV Testing Day on June 27. Our guests include: Dr. Oxiris Barbot, Baltimore City Health Commissioner, Marvin “Doc” Cheatam, Director of the Greater Baltimore Chapter of the National Action Network, Dr.