Earlier this week, Dr. David
Knox, an HIV specialist at the Maple Leaf Medical Clinic presented the findings
of his latest case study at the 2016 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston.
According to his findings, he has for the first time documented a case
of an individual contracting HIV, a multi-drug resistant strain, while
apparently adhering well to the daily regimen of Truvada as pre-exposure
prophylaxis (PrEP). Joining me today to
talk all about the study and its findings is Benjamin Ryan the editor at large at POZ magazine. You can also follow Ben on twitter.
Back in 2013, following
the Supreme Court’s decision in the case Shelby
County v. Holder, which discarded a crucial provision of the Voting Rights
Act, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg read her biting dissent from the bench, and in
essence scolded her fellow Justices in full view of the public; and to make
matters more interesting she’d also read two other dissents from the bench the
day before. These acts of defiance in
the face of conservative opposition made Justice Ginsburg a hero to progressives
all across the country and the sudden outpouring of affection for the Justice
was documented on a Tumblr blog called “Notorious RBG” which was created by
then law student Shana Knizhnik. Now,
the blog has been turned into an amazing book titled Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
which is co-written by Shana and Irin
Carmon, a reporter for MSNBC, and Irin joins me today in studio to talk all
about the book and the latest happenings in the Supreme Court.
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