When the AIDS Death Sentence Is Commuted

Part two of a documentary from the tea fields of Kenya

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In the video above, answering the turnaround question: will new drugs allow people to return to a truly full, productive life?

Yesterday, we joined a team of researchers from the School of Public Health who traveled to African tea plantations to study the devastating impact of HIV and AIDS on workers’ lives and productivity.

Today, part two of that story, which takes a surprising and hopeful turn.

Check back tomorrow for the final part, as well as video vignettes offering unusual glimpses into the world of western Kenya. Read part one.

Additional editing by Joe Chan and Anna Horowitz-Gelb. Additional videography by Philip Zekos.

Seth Rolbein can be reached at srolbein@bu.edu. Devin Hahn can be reached at dhahn@bu.edu.

An in-depth written account of BU’s involvement in Kenya is in the Winter-Spring 2010 Bostonia.

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  1. I am fascinated and moved by this story. I would love to see more BU Today article-and-video series on topics of faculty and student research.

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  2. It is sobering and indeed very uncomfortable that workers’ health is only cared for if data shows that preserving their labor power is financially beneficial to plantation owners.

    I do understand that the basic question is: where is the money for anti-retroviral drugs coming from? When plantation owners can be convinced to invest in workers, those workers get the drugs and live.

    It’s worth thinking about alternative, more humane ways of structuring the work place, e.g., worker-owned plantations which have health care for all workers.

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