Welcome to TheBody.com's HIV/AIDS Podcast Central! Here is an archive of dozens of audio interviews with people with HIV, doctors, researchers and others. You can easily listen to any of these interviews online or transfer them to your MP3 player; subscribe to our podcast series with iTunes or an RSS reader. You can also read any of our podcast transcripts. If you need help, click here for our frequently asked questions. If you'd like to get started listening, two of our favorite podcasts are available below, and there are plenty more accessible by topic to the left.
This Positive Life Featured Podcast: Enrique Franco: Living Openly as a Gay, Positive Man in the Hispanic Community
The U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy got Enrique Franco discharged from the Army. It also, oddly, was the reason he found out he was HIV positive. As Franco explains in this moving interview, diagnosis turned his life upside down, but he's now standing tall. "This is my body, this is my life," he says. "I'm not going to stop living. I refuse to put my head down."
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News & Views
Overweight People With HIV See Lower CD4 Gain While on HIV Medications, Study Suggests
Until the mid-1990s in the U.S., packing on a few extra pounds seemed like a good thing: It helped protect a person against the dangers of wasting and HIV's destructive effects on the immune system. But today, for people on potent HIV treatment, those extra pounds may no longer help -- in fact, they may reduce the immune benefits of HIV meds, a new study suggests.