HearingVoices specials’ feel like themed Harper’s Magazines for radio to me. Their culling of fine new or archival material is always beautifully paced and produced. This special is no exception. The narrator offers a few significant statistics, but the power is in the people’s voices, from South Africa’s exquisitely human nurse Sister Agnes, to North America’s excrutiatingly human HIV+ mother Jackie. In between are powerful excerpts from poem, essay, theatrical production, and the poignant audio diaries of spirited, philosophical teens living positively in more ways than one. This heart-moving hour needs to be heard.