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Mississippi Edition: Tuesday, December 1st
 
Community groups around Mississippi are taking time today -- World AIDS Day -- to highlight the issues surrounding H-I-V and AIDS. Mississippi is sixth in the nation in the rate of AIDS cases. State epidemiologist Doctor Thomas Dobbs says increased testing can help stem the spread of the disease. He spoke with MPB's Evelina Burnett.

"Spice" In Mississippi

Health officials are urging people to be on guard against the synthetic drug "Spice" after seven patients were admitted to the University of Mississippi Medical Center's emergency room in Jackson over a four-day period last week. This comes in the shadow of a rapid increase in "Spice" overdoses earlier this year when -- according to the State Department of Health -- Mississippi had more than 1,200 reported spice overdoses in April and May. Doctor Alan Jones is with UMMC. He says a sudden increase in new hospital visits last week could be caused by variations in each batch of the drug. Jones spoke with MPB's Maura Moed.


Southern Education Desk

Teaching issues that trigger strong emotions or political divides is challenging. In the South, some of those fault-lines – racial, religious, and otherwise – are stark. This week the Southern Education Desk explores how teachers take on some of these tough topics. In Part One, WBHM Birmingham’s Dan Carsen starts with race, past and present. There’s no shortage of those issues popping up in the news.




