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Deadly catch: Lake Victoria´s AIDS crisis

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Subido el 26 de junio de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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Lake Victoria in Kenya - a bustling community where secret sexual deals have devastating consequences

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Women make up half of the world's population, more than 3 billion people. 00:00:00
Yet in many countries, the lives of women are in jeopardy as they face some of the greatest health challenges ever. 00:00:06
In this episode of 21st Century, we'll take you on a journey across time zones to witness the battles waged on women's bodies, 00:00:14
to see what risks they face and to discover how they can overcome adversity. 00:00:23
First, we visit Lake Victoria in Kenya, a bustling community where secret sexual deals have devastating consequences. 00:00:29
The struggle to survive is fierce on Nadeda Island. 00:00:40
Women fighting each other, all desperate to get their hands on a few fish to sell. 00:00:46
Here alongside Lake Victoria in Kenya, the men may work the boats, but the women work the market. 00:00:55
Securing fish cheap is only half the battle. 00:01:05
Guaranteeing a space on the roof of the crowded bus en route to market is another. 00:01:10
The rivalry here is so intense, says this fish vendor, that many women are forced to do almost anything to win. 00:01:16
Some women have sexual relations with the driver to ensure their fish gets to the market. 00:01:25
There are even some women who have a relationship with the fisherman, the bus driver and the vendor at the market. 00:01:33
It's called the Jaboya system. Poor women forced to trade sex for a better chance to secure and sell their products. 00:01:45
It's a system that is devastating this island and is threatening its very existence. 00:01:55
Making matters worse, some women, like this one, not only work the system, but after a day at the market, they're on the lookout for a different kind of catch. 00:02:02
I have two businesses. First I go to the beach, and if I don't catch a fish, I will surely catch a man. 00:02:15
Bartering sex, selling sex. Its effects are seen here in this hospital in nearby Bondo, where so many islanders are hospitalized in the late stages of AIDS. 00:02:22
An already overwhelmed facility, the hospital has just two doctors for a quarter of a million people, is burdened even more by the sheer volume of HIV-positive people they receive every day from the beaches. 00:02:33
Most of the patients who come from the beach who are fishermen, most of them, around 70 percent of them, usually test positive. 00:02:46
Half the population of Nededa Island has already died of AIDS. 00:03:01
And helping to spread the disease, the fact that many of the men here have multiple Jaboya partners. 00:03:06
What's more, many also have multiple wives. 00:03:14
This is the grave for my co-wife, who died in the year 2002. And this is the grave for my husband. He was positive. Yeah. He had AIDS. 00:03:18
The Jaboya system is not a good system, but I am a widow with children. With no other means of income, I am forced to use this system. 00:03:34
Julia, whose husband also died of AIDS, is yet to tell her lover that she is HIV-positive. 00:03:48
She believes the consequences would be catastrophic for her and her young family. 00:03:54
I haven't told him about my status, because he will leave me if he knows I am positive. 00:04:01
AIDS awareness workers like Lazarus Uma do travel the beaches and islands trying to hammer home the message of prevention. 00:04:07
But his message often falls on deaf ears, as many here still deny the existence of HIV, 00:04:16
believing the disease to be a curse visited on those people who break customary law. 00:04:25
So they still go on doing their sexual immoralities without any preventive methods, because they think they are OK? OK. 00:04:30
Some customers like to use condoms, while others refuse to use them. 00:04:39
The ones who don't use them pay more. I would rather go with the ones that pay more. 00:04:43
I don't fear death, because death is waiting for all of us. 00:04:48
AIDS can infect me or the person I'm with at any time, so I carry on and have sex without fear. 00:04:54
And the reality of death is never far away. 00:05:04
The body of a man who has died of AIDS the previous night lies cold on the floor, 00:05:07
while his neighbors try to raise enough money to get the body to the funeral home on the mainland. 00:05:13
Andrew Okello is a nurse, but he works after hours at the family funeral home because of the sheer number of bodies they receive. 00:05:20
Day in, day out, people come here crying of this disease. 00:05:29
Most of our people, even the homes around, are dying of this disease. 00:05:34
If we don't get help or we find a proper way to curb this disaster, 00:05:40
then I think the community is going to get extinct, to say the least. 00:05:46
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United Nations (Naciones Unidas)
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Licencia:
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Fecha:
26 de junio de 2007 - 17:19
Visibilidad:
Público
Enlace Relacionado:
21st Century Television Series
Duración:
06′ 12″
Relación de aspecto:
4:3 Hasta 2009 fue el estándar utilizado en la televisión PAL; muchas pantallas de ordenador y televisores usan este estándar, erróneamente llamado cuadrado, cuando en la realidad es rectangular o wide.
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