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Digital Lounge: Don Messer and Linda Bales Todd with the Global AIDS Fund

n this episode of Digital Lounge, Don Messer and Linda Bales Todd, co-chairs of The United Methodist Global AIDS Fund, discuss how the AIDS/HIV epidemic has changed through the years and how the work of the Global AIDS Fund has offered, and continues to offer, hope to people living with HIV/AIDS. Host: Diane Degnan, director of Public Information at United Methodist Communications.

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