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Ryan White was 13 years old when he contracted AIDS during treatment for hemophilia. In this moving account, Ryan describes how he became a national symbol in his courageous struggle against the disease and the discrimination he faced for being inflicted with it.

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Share in the experiences of 7 children who have confronted serious illness in this joyful tribute to life. Ranging in age from 7 to 17, these attendees of Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang Camp display uncommon courage, a vibrant spirit, and piercing candor and eloquence. In spite of the extraordinary horrors of cancer, sickle-cell anemia, disability, or AIDS, the kids have learned to seize life, magnify and glorify it, and be grateful for its gifts. Through their poems and conversations we learn about their families, the importance of their friends, and their perceptions of God. Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Michael Douglas, Whoopi Goldberg, and many others join to celebrate the children's words and lives.

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South Africa has the largest number of people with HIV/AIDS in the world. More than five million South Africans are HIV positive. Thembi is one of them. For the past year, she has been carrying a tape recorder and keeping an audio diary of her struggle to live with AIDS.

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It's "Just Another Day At the Biggest Hospital In the World" in Soweto. 2000 patients check in daily, half are HIV positive. Host Joe Richman follows Sister Agnes Ramishiga on her shift. American RadioWorks' producers Stephan Smith and Stephanie Curtis give tape-recorders to three HIV-positive teens in "The Positive Life." Dave Isay's "Letters to Butchie" are a dying mother?s letters to a son she'll never see. We hear selections from "And Trouble Came: An African AIDS Diary, " a musical narrative by composer Laura Kaminsky. There's also a poem by Lisa Buscani, an essay by Krandall Kraus, and we look inside the Memory Box Project for AIDS orphans.

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How did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Will a visit to the tanning salon help bring down your cholesterol? Why do we age? Why are some people immune…

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This is the extraordinary story of the South African boy whose bravery and fierce determination to make a difference despite being born with AIDS has made him the human symbol of the world's fight against the disease, told by the veteran American journali…