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[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/tinderbox-how-colonialism-shaped-the-hiv-aids-epidemic by JEFFREY BROWN 10/4/12 PBS NEWS]

Ray Suarez speaks with authors Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin about how "shadows of colonialism" hang over the spread of HIV from Africa. The topic is explored in their book "Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome it."

=====THE AGE OF AIDS=====

[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. .

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 [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/tinderbox-how-colonialism-shaped-the-hiv-aids-epidemic by JEFFREY BROWN 10/4/12 PBS NEWS]
   Ray Suarez speaks with authors Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin about how "shadows of colonialism" hang over the spread of HIV from Africa. The topic is explored in their book "Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome it."
+=====THE AGE OF AIDS=====
+[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. .