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What the Tea Leaves Say

Researchers hoped their study would prove that treating HIV-infected workers is good for the Bottom Line. But what if they were wrong?

In the video above, join BU School of Public Health researchers in the tea fields surrounding Kericho, Kenya.

July 14, 2014
  • Seth Rolbein
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Read full story on BostoniaSince 2001, BU researchers have been working with tea pluckers and plantation owners in western Kenya. What started as an effort to measure the devastating impact of AIDS on African workers has evolved into something much more hopeful: an attempt to prove that HIV-infected workers, given the same antiretroviral drugs readily available in developed countries, will return to near full productivity, benefiting their employers as well as their families.

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