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=====THE AGE OF AIDS===== | =====THE AGE OF AIDS===== | ||
[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/interviews/mccormick.html by FRONTLINE] | [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/interviews/mccormick.html by FRONTLINE] | ||
In the second year that I was teaching school in the Congo, two Haitians came to our school under contract from the Congolese government to teach. It turns out they were part of a large population, relatively large. No one knows exactly how many, but somewhere between probably 5,000 and 10,000 Haitians came over to the Congo to help fill needs that were brought on by independence, when most of the Belgians left. There were ... very few Congolese schoolteachers, lawyers, doctors, other professionals who normally would have helped to run the country, so they had this contract with the Haitian government to send people over to help fill these gaps. Two of those teachers came to teach in our primary school. . | In the second year that I was teaching school in the Congo, two Haitians came to our school under contract from the Congolese government to teach. It turns out they were part of a large population, relatively large. No one knows exactly how many, but somewhere between probably 5,000 and 10,000 Haitians came over to the Congo to help fill needs that were brought on by independence, when most of the Belgians left. There were ... very few Congolese schoolteachers, lawyers, doctors, other professionals who normally would have helped to run the country, so they had this contract with the Haitian government to send people over to help fill these gaps. Two of those teachers came to teach in our primary school. | ||
=====Robert Fullilove: Inside the “Two Worlds of AIDS” in America===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/robert-fullilove-inside-the-two-worlds-of-aids-in-america/ by Jason M. Breslow 10/7/12 FRONTLINE] | |||
Robert Fullilove is a professor of clinical sociomedical studies at Columbia University. He tells FRONTLINE that the fight against HIV/AIDS, particularly in the black community, has been made harder “because the majority of Americans no longer see HIV/AIDS as a problem.” The nation should care more, Fullilove says, “because you don’t want people cut down in the flower of youth by a debilitating condition that costs us so much money.” This is the edited transcript of an interview conducted on May 6, 2011. | |||