Sun coverage: AIDS in Baltimore

Reporter Jonathan Bor and photographer Kim Hairston spent over a year exploring the roots of the HIV epidemic in Baltimore.

November 5, 2007

Many steps to a fresh start

Angela Jackson strides down Pennsylvania Avenue with pamphlets under her arm, unfazed by the line of dealers hawking drugs beneath blinking police cameras. " James Brown, James Brown!" cries one young man, applying the late soul star's name to his heroin capsules. " Ray Charles, Ray Charles!" cries another.Places like this are utterly familiar to Jackson, who once supported a heroin addiction by selling sex to men eager to step into an alley or vacant building. Today, she spots someone who's trolling for customers as she once did.

November 5, 2007

'I can't turn it off'

More than 25 years after being pressed into a life of addiction and prostitution, Ann Battle thinks she may have found a better path.

November 4, 2007

An epidemic's unseen cause

While just a teenager in the 1970s, she danced on The Block, where she snorted cocaine and heroin and sold sex in backrooms. Later, with her addictions firmly rooted, she set out on her own, offering her body on the streets of West Baltimore as a deadly virus was spreading.