Paying The Price - Uganda
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Channel: Journeyman Pictures · 2008 · People & Blogs
April 2001 In Uganda, in a hospital in the capital Kampala, 14-year old Vincent is being treated for cryptoccocal meningitis, contracted as a result of AIDS. Underweight, frightened and wracked with pain, he is one of literally millions of AIDS orphans across Africa who will die in the next 10 years unless life-saving antiretroviral drugs become more widely available. But at current prices, the drugs are just too expensive for most African countries.
