Revisiting An HIV Outbreak And Building Homes On Old Mine Sites, This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, at the height of the COVID outbreak, Charleston was sideswiped by a second deadly epidemic: what the Centers for Disease Control called the most concerning outbreak of HIV in the entire country. There was a bitter tug-of-war over how to respond. But where did that leave the patients, and the people most at risk? And what’s happened to the outbreak since then?

West Virginia Public Broadcasting has joined with the Global Health Reporting Center, supported by the Pulitzer Center, for this story. This is the first of a series of joint stories we’re bringing you throughout August.

Plus, Kentucky has a bold plan to create seven new neighborhoods, most on top of old mining sites in the eastern part of the state. In the second installment of a three-part series on high ground housing Kentucky Public Radio’s Justin Hicks reports with the new communities, come some new challenges.

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Maria Young produced this episode.

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