Summary

There are millions of women and children in southern Africa who are infected with H-I-V

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 161814
Story Slug Med - HIV - In - Africa
Location NONE
Format Pkg W/Tag
Date 06/01/1999
Archive Time 32:51
TRT 1:35
Supers 0:15 Dr Mark Kline, Baylor Pediatrics 1:20 Dr ZoAnn Dreyer, Reporting
Video Description Darcie with doctor, Dr Kline Sot, team walking down hall, sot, kids in Africa, sot, Darcie reading a book, African Footage
Description There are millions of women and children in southern Africa who are infected with H-I-V
Script LEAD: There are 34 million people in the world infected with H-I-V It's estimated that seventy percent live in Sub-Saharan Africa Dr ZoAnn Dreyer tells us health-care workers in America are headed to this region to share their expertise on prevention and treatment to millions of South Africans (TAKE PKG) SCRIPT: Four-year-old Darcie is H-I-V positive But thanks to a lot of research and medications, she's living a very healthy life She and other children in this country are fortunate to have the best treatments available Unfortunately, that's not the case in Africa (SOT) So a team of health professionals from the United States will travel to five countries in southern Africa help the third-world countries battle this epidemic (SOT) The program also hopes to establish clinical research in southern Africa The research done in the developed world has come a long way in helping H-I-V patients like Darcie (SOT) Researchers in the US and Europe have done a good job of preventing H-I-V in children and controlling the virus infected children U-S physicians see this as an opportunity to learn more about the disease and help a country overwhelmed by this epidemic From Baylor College Of Medicine in Houston, I'M Dr ZoAnn Dreyer (Suggested Anchor Tag:) Bristol-Meyers Squibb has committed $100 Million over the next five years to AIDS research and community outreach in southern Africa SUNRISE FEED-DATE: 99MAY29 SUNRISE
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