Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report Summarizes World AIDS Day Multimedia Coverage

Several broadcast networks and organizations featured special audio and video programming related to World AIDS Day. Summaries of some of the features appear below:

• ABC News' "World News Tonight": The segment includes comments from Irish musician and AIDS advocate Bono and Gay Men's Health Crisis and ACT UP Co-Founder Larry Kramer (Harris, "World News Tonight," ABC News, 12/1). A video excerpt of the segment is available online in RealPlayer.
  
  
• NPR's "All Things Considered": NPR's Michele Norris interviews Jim Wooten, senior correspondent at ABC News and author of "We Are All The Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love," a biography of South African AIDS advocate Nkosi Johnson, who was born HIV-positive and died of AIDS-related complications at age 12 (Norris, "All Things Considered," NPR, 12/1). The complete segment is available online in RealPlayer. Expanded NPR coverage of Johnson, including an excerpt from Wooten's book, is available online.
  
  
• NPR's "Day to Day": Host Noah Adams interviews NPR science correspondent Brenda Wilson about the HIV/AIDS pandemic (Adams, "Day to Day," NPR, 12/1). The complete segment is available online in RealPlayer.
  
  
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• NPR's "Day to Day": The program presents a rebroadcast of NPR's first HIV/AIDS report in July 1981, which describes the disease as a form of cancer among men who have sex with men (Garrett, "Day to Day," NPR, 12/1). The complete segment is available online in RealPlayer.
  
  
• NPR's "Day to Day": The program's senior producer Steve Proffitt as part of the occasional audio portrait series, titled "My Fellow Americans," profiles Carla Bailey, a women who has lived with HIV for 10 years (Proffitt, "Day to Day," NPR, 12/1). The complete segment is available online in RealPlayer. Expanded NPR coverage of World AIDS Day is available online.
  
  
• PBS' "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer": Health correspondent Susan Dentzer interviews UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot about the impact of HIV/AIDS on women (Dentzer, "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS, 12/1). The complete transcript is available online. The complete segment is available online in RealPlayer.
  
  
• PBS' "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer": PBS' Jeffrey Brown interviews Wooten about his book (Brown, "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS, 12/1). The complete segment is available online in RealPlayer. Expanded PBS coverage of HIV/AIDS is available online.

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