This is it, y’all: the season finale. This week we’re talking about HIV/AIDS, one of the biggest pandemics of modern times. We were fortunate enough to speak with three individuals who have had vastly different experiences with HIV/AIDS. Frank Iamelli, who took care of many of his friends throughout the epidemic, Hillel Wasserman, who has been living with HIV since 1987, and Brryan Jackson who was diagnosed with AIDS when he was only 5 years old. In this episode, you’ll get a glimpse into their stories and then we’ll fill you in on all of the biology, history, and present state of HIV in the world.

Don’t forget to tune in next week for our special bonus episode where you will get to hear more of Frank, Hillel, and Brryan’s stories in depth. In the meantime, here are a couple of links to Brryan’s website and Being Alive LA which you’ll hear more about next week!

Books	Articles
Quammen, David. The chimp and the river: How AIDS emerged from an African forest. Random House, 2015.	Centers for Disease Control (CDC. “A cluster of Kaposi’s sarcoma and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia among homosexual male residents of Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California.” MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 31.23 (1982): 305.
Shilts, Randy. And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic. Souvenir Press, 2011.	Centers for Disease Control. “Pneumocystis pneumonia Los Angeles.” MMWR 30 (1981): 250-252.
France, David. How to survive a plague: the story of how activists and scientists tamed AIDS. Pan Macmillan, 2016.	Baral, Stefan D., et al. “Worldwide burden of HIV in transgender women: a systematic review and meta-analysis.” The Lancet infectious diseases 13.3 (2013): 214-222.
Sontag, Susan. Illness as metaphor and AIDS and its metaphors. Macmillan, 2001.	Goonetilleke, Nilu, et al. “The first T cell response to transmitted/founder virus contributes to the control of acute viremia in HIV-1 infection.” Journal of Experimental Medicine 206.6 (2009): 1253-1272.
	Fiebig, Eberhard W., et al. “Dynamics of HIV viremia and antibody seroconversion in plasma donors: implications for diagnosis and staging of primary HIV infection.” Aids 17.13 (2003): 1871-1879.
	Busch, Michael P., and Glen A. Satten. “Time course of viremia and antibody seroconversion following human immunodeficiency virus exposure.” The American journal of medicine 102.5 (1997): 117-124.
	Bacchetti, Peter, and Andrew R. Moss. “Incubation period of AIDS in San Francisco.” Nature 338.6212 (1989): 251-253.
	Shaw, George M., and Eric Hunter. “HIV transmission.” Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine 2.11 (2012): a006965.
	https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/statistics
Movies/Documentaries
How to Survive a Plague	The Normal Heart
And the Band Played On

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