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FURTHER READING

Viruses
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/alllife/virus.html

Understanding CD4 count
aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/just-diagnosed-with-hiv-aids/understand-your-test-results/cd4-count

The stages of HIV
aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/just-diagnosed-with-hiv-aids/hiv-in-your-body/stages-of-hiv

Where did HIV come from?
aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/hiv-aids-101/what-is-hiv-aids

Origins of HIV located
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2014-10-03-hiv-pandemics-origins-located

http://www.avert.org/professionals/history-hiv-aids/origin

Colonialism & the HIV epidemic
washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/colonialism-in-africa-helped-launch-the-hiv-epidemic-a-century-ago/2012/02/21/gIQAyJ9aeR_story.html?utm_term=.fc83d0833016

HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa
http://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/sub-saharan-africa/overview

The early years of AIDS
cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6004a11.htm

Reagan & govt non-response
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/opinion/too-big-a-man-for-the-small-screen.html

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Reagan-s-AIDS-Legacy-Silence-equals-death-2751030.php

How "The Berlin Patient" defeated HIV
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/09/how-did-berlin-patient-rid-himself-hiv

Delta 32
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0030339

PREP! http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep.html

SUMMARY
In this episode of Sex Plus, Laci Green offers a quick primer on HIV, Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

Section 1: How HIV works
Section 2: Where HIV came from
Section 3: The AIDS epidemic in America
Section 4: Prevention! Cure!