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How South Africa, the Nation Hardest-Hit by HIV, Plans to "End AIDS"

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Ending AIDS

An on-the-ground look at efforts in Africa and the United States to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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Still from the July 21, 2016 PBS NewsHour broadcast.
Still from the July 21, 2016 PBS NewsHour broadcast.

Nearly one in five people infected with HIV globally lives in South Africa, and only half of them are on treatment. But the nation has made major strides against the virus in recent years and now is aggressively implementing a plan to end the epidemic. Pulitzer Center grantees William Brangham, Jason Kane, and Jon Cohen report on this effort in the final installment of their PBS NewsHour series "The End of AIDS?"

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