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Hiv, Aids and Atlanta Teens HIV, AIDS AND ATLANTA TEENS VOXATL.COM | VOL. 23 ISSUE 1 NOTE TO READERS PAGE 2 Connect with VOX DEAR FACEBOOK.com/voxrox @VOXROXATL on Twitter + Instagram YOUTUBE: bit.ly/voxatlvideo SNAPCHAT: voxatl READERS VOX INVESTIGATES FALL 2015 VOX ADULT STAFF TEEN TEAM JEFF ROMIG As some of you know, VOX recently rebranded itself and reconstructed our entire program so we may best represent Sharah Hutson, Intern, Mays High School EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RACHEL ALTERMAN WALLACK, MSW the voices of Atlanta’s teenagers. Along with this reconstruction was the birth of the VOX Investigates team. Jason Crichton, Therrell High School FOUNDER Jada Jackson, North Atlanta High School SUSAN LANDRUM, MSW PROGRAM AND OUTREACH DIRECTOR This team of teenagers took a semester-long journey into stories to produce print media, videos, audio stories, open Lizzie Likness, homeschooled ALLISON HOOD, MSW dialogue sessions, photography and other journalistic platforms. The fall semester was dedicated to creating content Kriti Lodh, Wheeler High School DEVELOPMENT MANAGER RICHARD L. ELDREDGE that pertains to how HIV and AIDS plays a role within the city of Atlanta. We selected this topic due to the fact that the Nahila Louis-Charles ARTS, CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR RAISA HABERSHAM HIV and AIDS rates in Atlanta are reaching an all-time high. We are very gracious toward the Community Foundation Miranda Mullins, Duluth High School NEWS AND FEATURES EDITOR for Greater Atlanta and the Elton John AIDS Foundation for funding special coverage. Jahleelah Shaheed, Creekside High School JOSIE FOOTMON-SMITH Kayla Smith, DeKalb School of the Arts PROGRAM ASSISTANT, MSW INTERN KIMBERLY POWELL Everyone on the team, the teens and their mentors, have been working diligently to create the issue you are holding, MSW INTERN plus more content you can fnd online at voxatl.com. Through the process of shaping these stories, the entire Thalia Butts, Co-editor in Chief, DeKalb School of the Arts team faced challenges with securing interviews, giving multiple perspectives of situations and long hours of research. Sebastian van Erk, Co-editor in Chief, Grady High School VOX ADVISORY BOARD RACHEL ALTERMAN WALLACK, VOX FOUNDER While researching our topics, we discovered a great amount of information about HIV and AIDS we did not know VOX INVESTIGATES FALL 2015 PETER CANFIELD, JONES DAY before. As the intern, I have been able to watch each teen develop a new set of interviewing skills, communicate with ADULT MENTORS & VOLUNTEERS KRISTINA CHRISTY, GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION MATT CRENSHAW, OUTBRAIN their mentors and each other, and learn so many new facts about HIV and AIDS. Gwen Anderson Warren, CNN WHITNEY DEAL, KILPATRICK TOWNSEND Jim Burress, WABE JOCELYN DORSEY, WSB-TV This issue features stories that tackle topics such as HIV within the transgender community, access to HIV testing, HIV Tess Malone, Atlanta Magazine AMY GLENNON, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION and AIDS in pop culture, myths and truths, profles of people impacted by HIV, and more. We are also publishing Eliott McLaughlin, CNN CATHY HAMPTON, CITY OF ATLANTA regularly online. We hope everyone reading our special coverage walks away with a deeper knowledge of how HIV Sean Powers, GPB JASON HOCH, HOW STUFF WORKS and AIDS play a role in the city we call our home. Read the complete story about how HIV and AIDS affects Atlanta’s Lee Smith, CNN Digital HANK KLIBANOFF, EMORY UNIVERSITY teenagers at voxatl.com/category/vox-investigates/. MARC RICE, SOUTHERN COMPANY VOX BOARD OF DIRECTORS STANLEY ROMANSTEIN, GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY KALEB ANDERSON, B.E.S.T. ACADEMY SIMIT SHAH, GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Thank you, VASHTI AVEIRLS, CHAMBLEE HIGH SCHOOL Sharah Hutson, VOX Investigates Teen Intern SUSAN BRADBURY, FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ATLANTA LINDSEY CALDWELL, COXE CURRY & ASSOCIATES VOX IS AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER AND WEBSITE KATE CARTER, COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER PRODUCED BY AND ABOUT ATLANTA-AREA TEENAGERS. VOX VOX INVESTIGATES FALL 2015 SUPPORT THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION JESSICA CASEY, JONES DAY IS DISTRIBUTED BY VOX TEEN COMMUNICATIONS, INC., A TURNER BROADCASTING TANIA DOWDY, SUNTRUST, VOX ALUMNA NONPROFIT YOUTH-DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION. THE VIEWS ELIZABETH FAIST, SUTHERLAND FULTON COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AND OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THIS PAPER ARE THOSE OF THE KATE FROST, PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA ALEXES HARRIS, SOUTH ATLANTA HIGH SCHOOL THE ZEIST FOUNDATION ALCIDE HONORE, HOOPER & HONORE VOX TEEN COMMUNICATIONS, ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS, ELAINE HUDSON, HANDS ON ATLANTA STAFF OR SUPPORTERS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. © VOX TEEN MAILCHIMP GARRETT JOHNSON, POPEYE’S LOUISIANA KITCHEN COMMUNICATIONS, INC., 2015. THIS PAPER IS PRINTED ON GOOGLE JIMMY KIM, WEISSMAN, NOWAK, CURRY & WILCO, RECYCLED PAPER USING SOY INK. BLOOMBERG VOX ALUMNUS LINDSEY KNOX, CNN ARBY’S FOUNDATION JACQUELINE LASCALA, J. ALEXIS GROUP, INC. KILPATRICK TOWNSEND NAHILA LOUIS-CHARLES VOX TEEN COMMUNICATIONS AVENUE REALTY TERRELL MCCOLLUM, SOUTHERN COMPANY 229 PEACHTREE ST. NE, SUITE 725 BARTRAM NASON, FILMMAKER ATLANTA, GA 30303 GEORGIA POWER MACKENZIE ROWE, ACADEME OF THE OAKS SPECIAL THANKS 404-614-0040 | [email protected] SOUTHERN COMPANY ALEXANDRIA WILSON, NORTH ATLANTA HIGH SCHOOL SCOTT WOELFEL, ARMCHAIR MEDIA VOXATL.COM | VOXATL.ORG CITY OF ATLANTA OFFICE OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS ATT SCIENCE OF HIV PAGE 3 to have contact with somebody who is HIV-infected and who is not on therapy [i.e. taking daily medications], because HIV if somebody is on therapy [and has an undetectable viral load] then they are not transmitting. But if somebody is HIV-infected and is not on therapy, then they have detectable virus in their genital secretions. Q&A It can also be transmitted because you got exposed to blood. Do we know why HIV attacks the immune system? Widely known HIV ... targets the immune system cells, what we call the CD4 cells. It attaches and but not widely multiplies in those sites, and when it does that, it also kills them. It starts a process understood called programmed cell death, and it causes them to kill themselves. By Jahleelah Shaheed How does HIV affect the body, and how does it VOX Investigates weaken the immune system? HIV damages the body by destroying the n sex-education classes, teens learn HIV immune system. is a virus that, if untreated, develops into AIDS, and the best way to prevent Can HIV cause any observable physical changes? contracting it is to practice safe sex or HIV, itself, does not; the infection Inot have sex at all. In most cases, I fnd that’s associated with HIV [does]. The vast majority the extent of the information taught on the of people with HIV, who are not sick, have subject, leaving many in the dark to what HIV the virus in their blood and don’t know it. truly is. To help teens understand the virus, I You can’t tell if somebody has HIV just from interviewed Dr. Carlos del Rio, co-director of the looking at them. Emory Center for AIDS Research, about what HIV actually is. Once someone is diagnosed as having AIDS, can Human immunodefciency virus (HIV) is they go back to just being HIV-positive with the aid spread by bodily fuids (excluding saliva) of medication, or is it permanent? through unprotected sex and sharing drug No one is just HIV-positive. Once you have equipment, such as needles. The virus is the virus, it is multiplying. We can give you incurable, and if not treated, can lead to therapy and suppress the virus in your blood, acquired immunodefciency syndrome (AIDS). and you won’t have the infection or disease, COMIC BY MIKAEL TRENCH | VOX STAFF but you will still have HIV. HIV is classifed as a lentivirus. What is a lentivirus, it integrates into the cell. So the challenge to HIV doesn’t/won’t affect them? and why is HIV classifed as one? Is HIV a terminal illness? create a cure is, “How do we extract that?” HIV is real. HIV continues to infect millions A lentivirus is a virus that can stay in HIV is not a death sentence [with proper We’ve never been able to do that. of people around the world. There are still, in the body for extensive periods of time. treatment] but is a life sentence. You will be many communities, people getting infected Lentiviruses, including HIV, do this by in therapy for the rest of your life. You will How do medications suppress the virus? every day and we should not take it lightly. meshing their DNA or RNA with our own. need to take drugs for the rest of your life. What the medications primarily do is HIV is a real disease and a real infection and interfere with the virus replication [when the it kills people. How is HIV transmitted from person to person? Do we have any idea as to why HIV is currently virus copies itself to grow in numbers]. They HIV is transferred primarily through sexual incurable? control the virus, but they don’t cure it. Jahleelah, 15, is (presumably) a human being contact, [or] contact with infected secretions. Well, it is incurable because it incorporates who attends Creekside High School and is What people don’t realize is that you need itself into the genetic material, and therefore Do you have anything to say to teens who believe passionate about art. PORTRAITS OF HIV PAGE 4 D’JONA, 19 YOUTH HIV POLICY ADVISER "I was born with HIV, but I didn't know until I was 15. In 10th grade I caught pneumonia and got really sick. My legs swelled up, and I couldn't breathe, eat or sleep. We went to the doctor, and they clothes they had to bleach them. asylum called the Serenity Prayer. I still rushed me to the hospital.
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