Desperate Housewives star Andrea Bowen is set to play a student who contracts HIV in a gritty new TV movie. The actress, who plays the daughter of Teri Hatcher's character on the hit TV show, will star in the drama "Consequences," which will air on Lifetime this summer.

Jennie Garth will also appear in the film - as a teacher who befriends Bowen's character after she discovers she has had unprotected sex with a HIV carrier, played by Erik Von Detten.

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