"Rethinking AIDS Treatment: The Brazilian Model"
National Radio Project
Making Contact
7 December 2005
December
7, 2005
Grassroots groups in Brazil have successfully educated sex workers
and many others on the dangers of AIDS. The Brazilian government provides
free medicine for anyone who is HIV positive, something that doesn't
even happen in all parts of the U.S. American activists say we can
learn a lot from the Brazilian experience.
Independent producer Reese Erlich reports from Rio de Janeiro. Also, listen to the songs of Seu Jorge, a Brazilian musician who came from the slums and champions the cause of the poor.
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Featuring:
Dr. Paulo Barroso, Federal University Hospital, Rio de Janeiro; Cleidejane
Araujo, president, HIV Vida; Sandra Palagar, cook's assistant; Jorge
Margalais, supervisor, Far Manguinhos pharmaceutical factory; Eloa Dos
Santos Pinheiro, former factory director, Far Manguinhos; Dr. Mauro
Schecter, AIDS expert; John Iverson, co-founder, ACT UP; Seu Jorge,
Brazilian actor and songwriter.
This week's host: Tena Rubio. Contributing producer: Reese Erlich.