Africa : Black Deaths, White Conspiracy
29 minutes, 2003
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Why has AIDS struck with such a vengeance, in the world's poorest continent? The answer is a complicated one. Poverty, tropical diseases, human genetics and multi-national drug company profits, all play a part in this international catastrophe. Kenyan reporter Alfred Mutua visits South Africa, Kenya, Botswana and Uganda to provide an African perspective on why AIDS is continuing its virulent spread there. We see startling stories of HIV sufferers dying due to the lack of affordable anti-retroviral drugs and in Kenya continuing exposure to HIV is believed to be the reason why a group of women prostitutes have developed immunity to the virus.