Public Health

Changing Vaccination Requirements And More School Closures This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, a new episode of Us & Them looks at the latest chapter in the debate over West Virginia’s vaccination requirements, and several Kanawha County schools will be closed and consolidated at the end of this school year.

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HIV In Rural Communities And Navigating Period Poverty This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, West Virginia ranks 18th in the rate of new HIV infections but that may be an incomplete picture, and a conversation about the danger of period poverty, and what folks across the country are doing to address it.

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West Virginia’s Vaccine Divide

As kids head back to school, pediatricians are reminding parents that their child must be immunized to attend school. But for some, this routine has become a time to grapple with fears about the safety of their children.

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Revisiting An HIV Outbreak And Building Homes On Old Mine Sites, 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?

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