[PODCAST] Growing up in the time of HIV: ‘The babies we saved from HIV decades ago are now contracting the virus in their teens’

September 18, 2019

As children, they escaped the virus through revolutions in medication. But today, they face an old foe again. Renowned HIV scientist Salim Abdool Karim sits down with Mia Malan to explain why their story is the story of Africa’s HIV epidemic.

Music credit: Driven To Success – Scott Holmes

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Mia Malan

Mia Malan is Bhekisisa's editor-in-chief and executive director. Under her leadership, Bhekisisa’s online readership increased 30 fold and its donor funding eightfold between 2013 and 2019. Malan has won more than 20 African journalism awards for her work and is a former fellow of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.

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Dylan Bush is Bhekisisa's senior multimedia journalist.

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