I'm Jonathan K. Parton, welcome to this Pride Encore presentation of K-PART.

On February 22nd, Washington Post live hosted a series of conversations on the quest for

an HIV vaccine.

That very morning, the New York Times reported on a study that recommended those with

MPOX should also be tested for HIV.

This was great timing because my conversation was with Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, the deputy

coordinator for the White House National MPOX response.

MPOX does not live in isolation.

It interacts with other infections as well as sort of social circumstances that makes

those infections worse and impacts communities.

And Dr. Daskalakis talks more extensively about those social circumstances, including

the role stigma plays in propagating both viruses and whether we will achieve the goal

of eradicating HIV AIDS by 2030.

So you are on loan from the CVC where you are the director of the division of HIV Prevention

at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and we will talk about HIV specifically in

a moment.

But there's a story in the New York Times today that brings the two monkeypox for those

who are not initiated is now MPOX, the link between MPOX and HIV that people who have

MPOX should also be tested for HIV.

Talk about the significance of this story.

Sure.

So the significance really is one about interacting epidemics that are made worse by social

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