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'Dying Words: The AIDS reporting of The New York Times' Jeff Schmalz'

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'Dying Words,' a documentary about Jeff Schmalz
The 'Dying Words' radio documentary by reporter Sam Freedman remembers pioneering journalist -- and AIDS patient -- Jeff Schmalz.
Photo by Fred R. Conrad, The New York Times | Cover design by Christia Blomquist Freedman

Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day.

Around the globe, 39 million people have died of the disease since the AIDS epidemic began. Thirty-four million people have HIV/AIDS right now, including 1.2 million in the United States.

The CDC says one out of seven afflicted don't even know they have it. This hour, from PRX, a documentary about New York Times reporter Jeff Schmalz, who covered AIDS while he was dying of the disease.

Produced by Kerri Donahue and Samuel G. Freedman. Edited by Ben Shapiro. Hosted by Brooke Gladstone of WNYC's 'On the Media.'