Jonathan Swain's Life with AIDS

By Michele Norris

Published June 30, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Robert Sanchez of The Rocky Mountain News and Jonathan Swain, a 21-year-old man who contracted AIDS as a child. Sanchez learned about Jonathan while doing a story on education, and traced him to Utah. Swain discusses how he lived with AIDS his whole life. He now is married, and is expecting a child of his own.

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