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Exclusive: Watch Peter Staley on the Fight to End AIDS

'Our biggest challenge as AIDS activists is that nobody cares anymore. It's apathy.'

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Vice Special Report: Countdown to Zero is a new special report documentary produced by HBO and Vice that looks at revolutionary medical breakthroughs and challenges that remain in ending HIV/AIDS worldwide in decades. Ranging from high-tech American labs -- where the DNA of HIV-positive patients is being edited to resist the virus --to South African clinics that are participating in the largest vaccine trial in history, goes inside the search for the cure and a preventative vaccine that could eliminate AIDS. In this exclusive clip, activist Peter Staley addresses one of the biggest problems facing those working on ending AIDS: apathy.

The doc debuts Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 9 p.m. (ET/PT) on HBO. Watch the clip below:

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