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Rick Guasco (left) and Jayr Washington (right.)

Two people with an arm around each other in front of red background

Rick Guasco (left) and Jayr Washington (right.)

Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons

On World AIDS Day, Chicagoans living with HIV reflect on their experiences

On World AIDS Day, we explore what’s changed since the start of the epidemic – and what hasn’t.

Rick Guasco (left) and Jayr Washington (right.)
By Max Lubbers
   

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Since the start of the AIDS epidemic, what’s changed?

The medicine. What’s continued? The stigma.

Reset brings together two people living with HIV in a conversation crossing generations.

GUESTS: Rick Guasco, editor-in-chief of Positively Aware, a magazine about HIV and AIDS

Jayr Washington, HIV prevention specialist at Life is Work, a social services agency for trans people on Chicago’s West Side

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