Tsepong: A Clinic Called Hope
Patrick Reed
Canada | 2005 | 49mins | Beta | Colour
Lesotho is a tiny country in southern Africa with an enormous problem: HIV/AIDS. More than one-third of all adults in the country are HIV positive, the highest rate in the world. Attempting to remedy the pandemic, a small group of Canadian health care workers have travelled to a remote corner of Lesotho, to help set up one of the country’s first HIV/AIDS clinics and to distribute life-saving anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs).
Currently, the program is in danger of being a victim of its own success. There are simply too many people desperate to get too few drugs. Failure is not an option. If the anti-retroviral drug pilot project collapses, an ARV resistant strain of HIV/AIDS may develop, spreading across the continent, and eventually into the West. Lesotho is not just a small, remote nation; it is the front-line of a global battle with literally millions of human lives at stake. This battle must be won; this story must be told.
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