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STAYING ALIVE  |  Originally aired March 13, 2009 on CBC-TV
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Interview: David Brodrick
DAVID BRODRICK is 40 years old. He is from Toronto. He was adopted, and at the age of 12 he ran away from home. He started injecting drugs after he found out he was HIV positive in 1990. Dave was the first peer counselor for inmates with HIV in a federal penitentiary in Ontario.
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