HIV

The number of Maryland babies born with HIV is shrinking, and those babies are living longer. We talk with a Baltimore teenager who lives with the virus and to a nurse and a social worker who are helping those born with HIV transition into adulthood.  

Then, Baltimore City Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld retired last year after 31 years in law enforcement. He tells us about his new gig as a criminal justice professor. 

Should women with especially high levels of testosterone be able to compete at the Olympics with their female counterparts? Or should a double amputee who runs on prosthetic blades be able to compete with able-bodied runners, or does the use of prosthesis give an unfair advantage? We look at the International Olympic Committee’s decisions when it comes to gender testing and the use of prosthesis in sport with Midday’s doctor-in-residence John Cmar. Also, an explanation of the newly approved HIV prevention drug Truvada.

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.

The rate of HIV infection in African American women in Baltimore is much higher than we thought.

Longtime Walters Art Museum director Gary Vikan is leaving after nearly two decades in the role. Tom Hall talks with him about his time curating the giant collection.

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.

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.