‘Mom, I have HIV but don't worry about me’: How One City Is Trying to Eliminate HIV

<p>Nearly 700,000 Americans have died of AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic in the 1980s, and more than 1.1 million are living with HIV today.</p> <p>Advances in medical science have provided people with access to highly effective treatments for HIV. But is it possible to eliminate the disease altogether?</p> <p>Some cities are trying. On this episode of <em>The Dose</em>, Grant Colfax and Susan Buchbinder of San Francisco's public health department talk about how the city is trying to eliminate HIV.</p> <p>Through a range of projects, from increasing the uptake of preventive medicine to running mobile clinics to serve hard-to-reach patients, the city is making progress toward its goal of getting to zero HIV infections, deaths, and stigma.</p>