Life 4 - Crisis Control
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Worldwide, 42 million people are infected with HIV/AIDS. 90 percent of them live in Africa, Asia and Latin America. But while world attention has been focused on Africa's longstanding HIV/AIDS catastrophe, new crisis regions are emerging. Ukraine has one of the fastest growing infection rates in the world - an epidemic waiting to happen, unless urgent action is taken. Life visits the former Soviet Republic and Zambia, to find out if Eastern European countries like Ukraine can learn from Africa's experience in fighting AIDS - before it's too late.
'If you thought the global AIDS epidemic was under control, you'd better think again. This chilling documentary demonstrates that the spread of HIV/AIDS is worse than ever, and if medical relief efforts fail to adapt, then an already horrible situation is going to get much, much worse.' Prof. Timothy McGettigan, PhD, Dept of Sociology, Colorado State Univ-Pueblo
'The importance of these films is that they are intended to raise awareness about global issues in young people, and can be used by anyone for this purpose. The quality of the films is excellent. They are documentaries about the U.N. Millennium Development Goals and include brief interviews with people who are actually involved in MDG programs, from various institutions and from the grassroots to executive level...The objective evidence about the current global crisis of insecurity, poverty, gender inequalities, environmental degradation, and lack of international cooperation is presented in a way that is both realistic and non-inflammatory.
Children are the future. Educational materials such as the Bullfrog Films are very important for the future of both humanity and the human habitat...The Bullfrog Films certainly can and should be shown to children, especially to high school students. But these films are most appropriate for those who prepare the children for responsible citizenship, including global citizenship. They are certainly appropriate for parents who want their children to know about the need for human solidarity and environmental sustainability. And, they are most appropriate for training teachers to plant the seed of global concerns in their students' minds and hearts.' Luis Gutierrez, Editor, Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence Research Newsletter
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Main credits
Kelly, Brenda (film producer)
Richards, Jenny (consultant)
Marlow, Emily (film director)
O'Brien, Dermot (editor of moving image work)
Gawin, Luke (film producer)
Dunbar, Sally (narrator)
Other credits
Editor, Dermot O'Brien; series producer, Luke Gawin.
Distributor subjects
African Studies; Anthropology; Developing World; Europe; European Studies; Geography; Global Issues; HIV/AIDS; Health; Human Rights; Humanities; Millennium Development Goals; Population; Poverty; Russian/Slavic Studies; Social Justice; United NationsKeywords
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Previously in life… Globalization
means diseases travel,
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crime travels, drug travel, terrorism
travels, so we are in this altogether.
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(inaudible) and precondition for any effort
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to make a development. The big health
tragedy is like TB and malaria
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have to be beaten back
if (inaudible) for use.
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A 42 million people around the world
are now thought to be infected by HIV,
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the virus that causes AIDS.
Many are sick or dying.
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Nine out of ten people with AIDS live
in Africa, Asia, or Latin America.
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Countries like Zambia being battling against
the AIDS epidemic for over 20 years,
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but new regions are now facing
an aids crisis of their own.
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Eastern Europe is at the frontier of the
epidemic. The former soviet republic of Ukraine
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is one of the fastest growing
HIV/AIDS in the world.
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It is estimated that one in a hundred
people are now infected by HIV.
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While the number of people actually dying from AIDS is
still low, the virus is spreading with alarming speed.
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[music]
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We don\'t have a road map for what\'s going to happen in (inaudible)
more then we had a road map for what\'s going to happen in Zambia.
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But the big difference is that
Ukraine crosses 20 years on
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from where Zambia was when its epidemic
started and more over there would be
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some new ideas around, so new responses.
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But what will those new responses be by drawing on
experience and knowledge from other parts of the world,
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will countries like Ukraine take the
necessary steps to contain the epidemic
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before falling into HIV/AIDS of this.
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[music]
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One in five people in Zambia are
infected with the HIV virus.
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From it\'s densely populated cities
to distant rural communities,
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the country has suffered
staggering human loses.
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Lusaka, Zambia\'s capital
city is no exception.
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[music]
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If you just walk on the streets of Lusaka, you\'ll see there\'ll
(inaudible) you… you actually miss the whole picture,
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I mean, you don\'t… you don\'t get a sense
that HIV/AIDS is… is that serious.
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They must vulnerable in age
group (inaudible) from 20 to 49
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and if you go to… to any average, any
graveyards, there is a (inaudible)
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I mean, you… you can go to our graveyard
here in Lusaka, there is always a queue,
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what on daily basis of people being buried.
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Survey show Zambia faces more than
200 age related deaths every day.
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With HIV infection rates at 27% in
urban areas and 13% in rural areas.
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The coffin industries booming.
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[music]
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Zambia already has over 600,000 orphans
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and the streets of Lusaka are becoming home to more
and more children who have no where else to turn
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[sil.]
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Kids on the streets, a lot of
them, their parents died of AIDS.
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When both parents die then there is no one to
commit themselves to take care of these children,
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so because of that kind of situation they… they
rush to the streets because in the streets
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there are so many of them, so they feel comfortable
though they can\'t understand it too much,
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but it devastates them even mentally some of
them because they\'re on blue, they\'re on drugs,
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they\'re on alcohol (inaudible) say that they\'re just
depressed. You can stay with one may be for two months,
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can\'t talk to anyone, so you need to take
some time to redefine out then they explain,
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no, what happened, is this is this is that, I don\'t
know if I\'ll be ever be out of this situation.
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(inaudible) centre in Lusaka provides food,
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education, and accommodation for some
of the cities most vulnerable children.
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Many of the children fall victim to abuse
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and are often drawn into criminal
behavior on the streets.
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When they lost their
mother to AIDS brothers
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Emanuel and Mikey drifted into town.
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The big boys on the streets tried to take our money
and if we didn\'t give it to them they beat us
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and so we often have to keep
running away from them.
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I like it here because I\'m sure of food
here. I\'m sure of sleeping comfortably.
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I\'m sure of playing football and
I\'m sure of seeing tomorrow.
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[sil.]
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But the fear now is how the situation in Zambia
will deteriorate still for as more people die,
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it\'s becoming increasingly hard for the
devastated population to support itself.
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[sil.]
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What we\'re seeing now is that HIV is going to be the economic
impact because again if you look at the age group that are dying
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is 22 to like… 22 to 49, now these are the…
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the ones who are supposed to be the engine of the
economy. Some of the recent studies have shown that
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in fact we cannot train enough teachers
to fill out those who\'ve died,
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so eventually we have a shortage of teachers and
already we have.. I think we are experiencing that,
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the number of nurses and those in the medical position
who are dying and the number of engineers and so on,
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now all those have economic in professions
because who is going to run these things.
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[sil.]
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In the small town of Kalomo, south of Lusaka
residents can find out their HIV status
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at their local Voluntary
Counselling and Testing
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or VCT centre. The rapid development
of these centres across Zambia
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is a key part of its prevention
strategy against HIV and AIDS.
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[sil.]
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Patricia Habeenzu is the district
VCT coordinator at Kalomo Hospital.
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Come in. Good afternoon. Good afternoon.
How are you? (inaudible).
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Fine, thank you. You can. In the HIV,
if you look up to yourself very well.
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If you follow the do\'s the don\'ts,
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you definitely live for a long time. I\'m Patricia
Habeenzu. Knowing your HIV status is very, very good
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because you know how to look after yourself
whether positive or negative. Clemmit,
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were you once robbed in some risky
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behavior (inaudible) out.
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Yeah, I thought that I
would see girlfriend,
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but (inaudible), so he
says now look at you,
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two days ago your girlfriend passed away,
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so you have to go for HIV test. So
I\'ll just get a bit of blood from you
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and then you give me about 5 minutes.
I\'ll come back with your results. Okay.
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[music]
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Outreach program was like this,
introduce the stigma of HIV and AIDS
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and so help to decrease HIV prevalence rates
that confronting the secrecy surrounding it.
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[music]
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For… for this one, (inaudible) tell that the result is negative,
because there is no red line showing on the bottom part,
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so it\'s negative.
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[sil.]
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For removed villages often hundreds
of miles from the nearest small town
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traveling VCT units of the accessed
HIV testing and counseling
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for those who needed.
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The residents of Nabwalya
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are visited monthly by
their nearest VCT team.
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Most of the people in the rural
areas are not able to access VCT,
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reasons being the distance
from the areas to town,
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the drivers spent their money on food than
travel to have their blood tested for HIV.
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[sil.]
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If people don\'t know the HIV status, they
could be infected and if they don\'t know
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they would pass on the infection. We believe
that (inaudible) for us, if people know
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that they are HIV negative, that they have
done the test and they know that HIV negative,
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I think that gives them the motivation
for them to try to maintain that status.
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At that moment, we\'re also
talking about coming in of ARVs,
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I mean, how does somebody get on the
ARVs unless the HIV have been tested,
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so unless we know then I think you cannot make a rationale
decision in terms of what to do about most of these things.
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[music]
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So far tested 48 and 6 of this 48
are positive. It\'s not too bad,
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it\'s better than one out of five.
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Nabwalya may be fairing better than others,
but lack of funds and battles of drug patents
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have stopped antiretroviral drugs,
ARVs reaching those who need the most,
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the world\'s poor.
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After the recently announced collaboration between the Clinton
foundation, the World Bank UNICEF and the global fund,
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this looks up to change.
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Encouraging science point to significant
reduction in the cost of generic AIDS medicines.
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But a wide scale expansion of cheaper ARVs,
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is just a small part of the larger
prevention and treatment strategy
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needed in the fight against HIV and AIDS. The antiretrovirals
are not an answer to the problem of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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There\'s something we have to absolutely clear
about. But in the case of countries like Zambia,
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which have got very elevated epidemics
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then the antiretrovirals will offer a window,
a window of opportunity during which
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you can keep people alive, you can able them
to parents, you can able them to be producers
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and that is hope for the future. In Zambia,
there are now a few faint flickers of hope.
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In the 15 to 29 age range,
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incidences of new HIV infections are leveling
out even declining in some urban areas.
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In the general adult population though over a
numbers of infection are still increasing.
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Here in Zambia, there is no family
that you can to (inaudible).
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Personally, I have lost two of my
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young siblings (inaudible) who
have dead of HIV and AIDS.
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I\'m keeping a number of orphans in my
own home. So that\'s the reality of it.
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I wouldn\'t say that fighting is ended, is over yet,
it\'s not. We still have new people getting infected.
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We still have people who are ignoring
know whatever we have been talking about
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that I think it\'s the efforts that we\'re putting in which
we needed to sustain them. If we\'re going to reduce
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the providence that was because really
(inaudible) sexually active population,
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we are still talking about 16% in terms of
HIV is prevented and that\'s incredibly high.
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While Zambia continues its 20-year battle
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against HIV virus, many
countries in Eastern Europe
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are just beginning the fight.
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But new regions oppose
serious new problems.
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(inaudible) countries like Zambia
will new crisis countries Ukraine
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acts to contain the epidemic
before it spirals out of control.
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[sil.]
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And this epidemic is about
drugs and is about sex
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and it was all those things that every society
wants to keep the most (inaudible) most secret
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and if we then confirm those things,
we can confirm the epidemic.
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[sil.]
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Because I understand it,
AID, it\'s a big task
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not only for a person who lives on street,
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but it also a test for society
as a whole, a test of tolerance,
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understanding, openness, sincerity.
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Those qualities which make a person human.
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Worst case scenario of Ukraine
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means that was in a million people
will die from AIDS in 2016,
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so it\'s a very dangerous situation
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and currently Ukraine go
to a lot of opportunist
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to avoid this situation.
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Studies in Eastern Europe showed no other
country has the spread of the virus
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has been drug fueled. Since the
fall of communism in 1991,
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Ukraine has suffered increasing
social economic problems
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including a dramatic increase in unemployment. Today,
there are estimated 30000 injecting drug uses in Kyiv
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Ukraine\'s capital.
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(inaudible) is an
organization run by people
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who\'ve experienced the problem of drug
abuse. They work as pure educators
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holding self help support groups like
this one and offer a place of refuge.
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[non-English narration]
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Ivan Shekker is a social
worker and a former drug user
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involved in outreach (inaudible) projects
with drug addicts and sex workers in Kyiv.
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[sil.]
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When I started using drugs,
it wasn\'t very common,
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just certain closed groups.
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Now we have as many drug users as we had
young pioneers or counselor members
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and that number is increasing. Young people
are interested in dwelling into (inaudible).
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[sil.]
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The sea poverty, the sea problems
and they want to get high now.
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[non-English narration]
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They look at pensioners and ask
what sort of life they\'ll have.
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$10 a month that\'s in poverty,
so they want to get a high now.
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This is the way as is
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to try to grab all of the pleasures
of life the drugs give you.
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[sil.]
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Almost three quarters of HIV
infected adults in Ukraine
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are injecting drug users.
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A major objective now is to contain
virus before its spreads further
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into the wider population.
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[sil.]
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Ivan Shekker\'s outreach work takes
him out on to the streets of Kyiv
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where he distributes condoms and
clean needles to sex workers.
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Many are also intravenous drug users.
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[non-English narration]
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In the absence of medication against HIV and
AIDS, the only way to stop the HIV infection
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is to provide clean syringes and
condoms to as many sex workers
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and drug users as possible.
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Growing poverty and the deteriorating
social and economic conditions in Ukraine,
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a fueled not unleaded huge rise in drug abuse,
but also a rapid increase in prostitution
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as a way of making money.
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The nation\'s health is in their
hands of the sex workers
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and they think this is very true because a
significant part of our male population
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use their services. This
is the nation\'s health.
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[non-English narration]
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If the sex worker is healthy, if she
is aware of HIV and takes precautions,
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I think this fear will prove itself.
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[sil.]
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Somehow we can break the pscho.
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We need to break at least
one link in the chain.
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Ivan also makes House Schools.
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[sil.]
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Today, he is visiting two women in
one of the highest risk groups.
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[sil.]
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Vlada and her daughter Julie take drugs.
Both are HIV positive.
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Julie sell sex for money.
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[non-English narration]
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Ivan has persuaded Vlada and Julie to provide
a needle exchange for local sex workers.
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[non-English narration]
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The flat is very conveniently located.
It\'s right in the city of ring road.
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It\'s good to work here because
most of the sex workers
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are working on the roads near by and this is
an ideal place to give out clean syringes.
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Most of the girls want to exchange needles
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from the street in case they gets stopped by
the police and ask unnecessary questions.
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This is a neighborhood
famous for its drugs,
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so people are coming here to get the drugs
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before he came along, we were giving and provided the
same old syringes even though we washed them out before.
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[music]
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Problem is that AIDS is still considered
as a specifically health issue here.
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No one sink in more
broadly in broad context,
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sink in about consequences for demography
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for connecting AIDS with social conditions
with it\'s economic consequences etc.
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[sil.]
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It\'s very important that the people of Ukraine and the
Ukraine government of civil society organizations
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address this issue right now.
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Ukraine has handicapped by an inability of politicians
and policy makers to look outside of the region
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and see what is happened elsewhere
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and that is a very serious
failing in many respects.
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Of course, it is important to overcome this
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or it will be left with nothing.
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Sick children, sick (inaudible) touch,
nobody capable of working, nothing.
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[sil.]
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I hope for nothing in the future.
I\'m just waiting for my time
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to go to the better world.
But the good lord
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doesn\'t want me yet.
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Drugs break your sense of aspirations.
It\'s not life. It\'s mere existence
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from injection to injection.
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It\'s impossible to explain.
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I seem to respond to AIDS.
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We need to make this problem more human
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to cut Stigma and discrimination
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to link it with… with all society.
Ukraine has just received a grant
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of 92 million dollars from the global
fund for it\'s HIV/AIDS program.
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It\'s part of a world wide strategy
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to tackle the epidemic as it unfolds.
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I\'m an optimist and HIV positive
people that I work with
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they inflicted this optimism.
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I think that may be this will be the point from
which our society, our psychology will be changing.
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It\'s when these people who
looked into no where.
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Can now be able to change
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and to help others to change as well.
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[music]
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The world health
organization has set targets
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for implementing HIV prevention
programs in many developing countries
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but lack of funding is
hampering how well they work.
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More money helps, certainly
more money helps.
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But more than that is to remove other peoples moral
agendas from the support of these organizations.
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If people want to distribute condemns,
we should support them in that.
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If people wanted to give sex education,
we should support them in that.
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If people want to distribute and control
antiretrovirals, we should support them in that.
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But we should not tie the money to
the moral agendas of rich societies
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whose politicians often have no conception
of what is happening in poorer countries.
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Recent cause to expand in generic ALV
treatments could plan important role
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in the global fight against HIV and AIDS, but world
is be enough for the world health organization
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to achieve its three by five goal
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getting three million HIV infected
people on treatment by 2005.
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The world health organization
three by five plan is (inaudible)
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is one of the best things that
happened, but it is a vision
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and it is the most extraordinary challenge,
but its not going to be the answer.
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This is a long term epidemic, it\'s going
to be with all of us throughout our lives
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and through the life of our children and grandchildren
and this is one beginning, one symbolic beginning
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of when the world came together to try
and confirmed human infectious disease,
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but we have to find other
ways for this as well.
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[music]
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[sil.]