>> hello and welcome to "global 3000," your weekly check on the global issues that shape our world. today, we look at why protecting elephants and rhinos is more effective in namibia than in many other places. and here's what we have coming up for you. the poorest of the rich -- why living in the u.s. doesn't always get you treatment for hiv. bloody business -- how namibia is tackling poaching by involving local communities. and preserving paradise -- how the indonesian island of java is

protecting its coastline. recently, u.s. scientists said they had managed to effectively cure a two-year-old child born with hiv. although not all traces of the virus have disappeared, the child is no longer on medication. doctors hope its own immune system will now be able to keep the virus in check. this case has given hope to millions of patients around the world. the african continent still remains at the centre of the global hiv epidemic. with almost 24 million people carrying the virus, it has the highest hiv rate in the world. but also in the pacific, asia, and in europe, efforts are still needed to halt the spread of the virus. in latin america, brazil is taking a leading role by guaranteeing treatment for all. at the same time, in the u.s. many hiv patients can only watch their scientists talk about

their medical breakthroughs on tv. most of these achievements remain out of reach for them. we hear from one patient how money soon became the issue right after he was diagnosed with hiv. >> louisiana is one of the poorest states in the u.s. it is home to angus carter. as a young man, he went to jail for petty crimes. while in prison, he discovered he was hiv positive. >> once i was released from prison, i was released from the department of public safety and correction sick. throwing up. i mean, sick, barely could walk. >> the state is meant to provide free health care for people without the means to pay for it. in practice, however, such care can be hard to come by, especially in remote areas. this is the only clinic in southwestern louisiana where poor people like angus carter can get treatment. he depends on assistance from

the state. when the clinic's one doctor is not available, there is nobody there to help.>> tjhey -- they don't want to deal with me anymore. i am trying my best, but seriously, doctor, my jaw is swollen up. my headaches, they're there. >> angus carter got infected nearly 20 years ago. he was a heroin user and shared needles with others. that is probably how he contracted hiv. mimi alvarado came to louisiana from nicaragua in the 1970's. thirteen years ago her then partner infected her with hiv. initially, hiv and aids mostly affected homosexual men. but that has not been case for decades.-- has not been the case for decades. anyone can be infected. treatment for poor patients is itself often poor. the financial crisis has decimated public health-care budgets. >> we did have to make some very difficult decisions.

and reduce some of our contracts with our community-based organizations and service providers in order to look at cost containment. compared to trying to provide everything for everybody. >> as a consequence, mimi alvarado has to shoulder more of the costs of her treatment. >> i used to get this for free. now i am paying. my paycheck is very little. this is the hiv meds. dinner. and before i go to bed. >> still, she is relatively lucky. experts say many people who are hiv positive in the u.s. do not get any treatment at all. that's also true in louisiana, which has one of the highest infection rates in the u.s. >> if you see in the south here especially, all these states in purple, they are states where people are on a waiting list to get hiv medications. >> angus carter no longer has to wait. he is receiving treatment. but he still worries about the quality of his care. his wife tries to cheer him up.

he says he will not let his medical condition get him down. >> so how do we measure the success of any health system then? by looking at the medical advances made for those who can afford them, or by how many people actually benefit from the system?-- the treatments? now we're invited into a global living room. today we visit an all-female household in mozambique's capital maputo, meet christina and her girls. >> hello, good evening, i am

christina. welcome to my home. that is my youngest daughter xena and my niece feira. and my oldest daughter silvia. this is the living room, where we sit together in the evening or on the weekend. but my family does not only consist of women. i have two men, two little men as well. >> raffi.i see. >> we named him haiti because he was living on the street and that is where we found him. he has been with us for a week.

one crazy thing about me is that i love to collect spirits and liqueurs. i don't drink them. i just collect them. i have bottles from all over the world. this is lemon liqueur from mozambique. it is bottled here. and this is a souvenir. we had three bottles of champagne on our honeymoon. we drank two, and this is the third. we are no longer together. but perhaps my daughter will open the bottle at her wedding. who knows. >> these are zulu podberries, a

fruit from maputo. you can suck on them and make juice with them. and this is the fruit of the baobab tree. we make juice with it, or add it to yogurt, mousse, all kinds of sweet things. >> thanks so much for having us, christina. now, experience shows, as long as there is quick money to be made by poaching, africa's wildlife needs vigorous protection. in some countries, this is done with the help of armed game wardens. but can one convince poachers to stop when one kill can bring in

about as much as one-and-a-half- years of labor in an ordinary job? well, namibia is providing incentives for preserving wildlife by investing in real alternatives. they have also created space for another argument. after all, who wants to have to explain to their children, that it's partly because of their parents' negligence, that the bushland, once abundant with wildlife, is now empty. >> in some ways, ronald karutjaiva does the same as his father used to do 20 or more years ago -- observing and tracking wild animals. his father was a poacher. ronald is a game warden. the elephant population is growing again. >> we are living together from the beginning. and it is very important that they are supposed to be in the area for children to see. >> he learned the art of tracking from his father and grandfather. a lion passed by here a short while ago.

ronald works for the conservation authority. this elephant must have died a few weeks ago. it does not look like it was killed by lions. perhaps it died of thirst. >> no. i think it is not drought. it maybe was sick or something like that. >> it was not killed by poachers. there is no more poaching around here. not since the game wardens were hired and began their patrols. here, humans and animals share the land. in neighboring south africa, things are very different. a record 668 rhinoceroses were killed last year. their horns sell for lots of money. namibia has solved the problem thanks to the close cooperation between the state and local

communities. john kenena kasaona also works for the conservation authority. he and his game wardens maintain a dialogue with people. if a lion kills livestock, the state pays compensation. >> he has reported a case. the claims were processed, but it seems not by the right people. so this is where the delay came in. this is what he wanted to know. >> mutual trust and respect make the system work. the game wardens are locals and that helps too. >> we have always lived alongside the lions. but if a lion killed one of our animals, we used to kill it in turn, with a bow and arrow. it was dangerous. >> now the villagers leave it to the game wardens to deal with the lions.

livestock numbers have been rising, and that means overgrazing is more of a problem in this arid region. wild animals are also becoming more numerous. the policy is to control that growth. hunting is considered part of conservation work. >> the food for both livestock and game is becoming very scarce. and i think it is expected that we are encouraging farmers to reduce their livestocks. the same should also be applied to wildlife, to be reduced. >> warmquelle introduced this system of patrols and wildlife management in 1996. 74 other communities have since followed suit. the consensus is that it benefits people, animals and the state. >> we are having more than 15 staff currently working, and we

are also having other kinds of direct benefits like distribution of meat to local members, registered members. >> our income is rising. there are jobs now, in tourism, at the lodge and the camp sites. finally we have work. >> in south africa, too, many people work in the tourism industry. safaris are big business. but one key difference is the fences. on the one side, a national park with its wildlife -- on the other, countryside with human habitations, villages. people don't live within the kruger national park. visitors drive through, remaining in their cars, and many only get out to visit restaurants. critics say this has turned great stretches of the country into a zoo. back in namibia, john kenena kasaona is at work, tracking. >> the one with the calf just went over there.

>> we are downwind from the southern white rhino and its baby, so they can't smell us. so we can get really close. in namibia, there are no fences. people live in the wild along with the wild animals. >> communities they have got many eyes and many ears and if they can really see that this is our life, this is our livelihood, i don't think any community would just let rhinos and elephants and lions just be poached by anybody. >> so far this year, one rhino has been killed by a poacher in namibia. in south africa, the number is at more than 200. protecting nature is of course a cause in itself. but a functioning eco system can also become a vital layer of protection for us humans when natural disasters strike. climate change means that we

will face more droughts, floods, and severe storms in the years to come. when parts of java were devastated by the 2004 tsunami, the island's southern coast suffered a heavy blow. to this date efforts are underway to rebuild the pangan- daran area. attempts are also being made to teach the next generation about preserving the environment, as the region hopes it wo;; recover -- ill -- will recover and become a magnet for eco-tourism.>> ♪ >> the children are singing a song about heading off to plant mangroves.♪

>> they have a day off school. these children from pangandaran are here to work.>> ♪ >> but first they sing some more. >> i love it. singing puts you in such a good mood. when we get to work, the children and i will be full of energy and joy. >> the tide is in. so just the top leaves of the young mangrove plants are above the water. the children are here to measure how much the plants have grown since their last visit and to collect other data on the environment. they come once a month. to check on the progress of the mangrove reforestation project.

the old mangroves were destroyed by a tsunami in 2006. >> i want to do something for the environment. we live on the coast and i feel it is our duty to get involved and to protect it. that is why i bring my children here, so that they learn at an early age to love nature and their surroundings. >> the project is organized by an ngo that promotes ecotourism called indecon, and supervised by the united nations world tourism organization. the german government has provided 1.2 million euros in funding for this and other projects in the region through its international climate initiative. nearby, a mangrove nursery has been set up.

35,000 plants have been grown so far and planted in an area that had been stripped bare. >> the good thing about the mangroves we are growing is that they have lots of roots. they provide shelter for all kinds of animals -- fish, crabs, and shrimp. the mangroves provide shelter, so they don't get eaten. >> mangroves also protect human habitats. they can significantly reduce the impact of powerful waves. tsunamis are an enduring threat here. pangandaran is a beach resort just a few kilometers away. once again, the town is able to live off tourism.

a tsunami in 2006 caused massive damage to the town and the entire region along the coast. on the walls of the lifeguards' hut are photos of the aftermath. almost 600 people were killed here. most of the hotels have now been rebuilt. it takes longer to restore the natural surroundings. the mangroves are just part of that. another is the coral reefs. that 3-meter tsunami triggered by a major earthquake broke the reefs up and swept them away.

>> even before the tsunami the corals suffered a lot from many activities like illegal fishing also taking or stepping. but after the tsunami the situation is even worse. our survey showed that the coverage at that time is only 10% of the coral. >> but new reefs can be cultivated. concrete beams have been laid on the sea floor. transplants of coral are anchored in the small holes. and they are growing.

after five years or so, this is what they should look like. and where there is coral, there are fish. stocks are recovering. the diver is pleased with what he found. >> he said that the corals grow very good, as expected. mostly they grow one to two centimeters in the last five month. so we are quite happy with that. >> when fish stocks are restored, the fishermen benefit too. since the tsunami, they have to go much further out to sea to catch enough fish. there is plenty of demand from the resort's many restaurants.

it is going to take years until the mangroves and the coral reefs are back completely. but the beauty of the place can make you think pangandaran is well on the road to recovery. >> and now, how does going on a cruise sound to you? getting away from it all, the stress of work, the noise of the city, the pollution. well, maybe then a cruise isn't the right thing for you after all, because the big cruise- liners are pretty much the most toxic way of travel. while you may be enjoying the fresh sea breeze on deck, if you look up towards the giant funnels you can get a sense of what the ship is leaving behind. and those are just the fumes. there is much more that cruise ships release as they sail across the oceans. every year some 20 million people book a holiday on a luxury cruise ship. the emissions from the ships' funnels are simply blown away by the wind. so, everything's fine. or is it? what is the environmental impact

of cruise ships? luxury liners are an environmental disaster. they sail the seven seas powered by heavy fuel oil, a thick toxic substance that is far more harmful to the environment than gasoline or diesel. the luxury liners are like floating incinerators for hazardous waste without filters. they emit concentrated sulfur, phosphor, nitrogen, heavy metals and other harmful substances in dangerously high quantities. an average-sized cruise ship carrying 2000 passengers uses 150 tons of fuel per day when it is at sea. in port it requires an average of 50 tons to meet the liner's electricity demands. experts have calculated that the amount of pollution emitted by a luxury liner equals that of five million cars covering the same distance. cancer-causing soot particles from the ocean giants are also spread by the wind.

there are around 500 cruise ships in operation worldwide and the number is on the increase. and they aren't the only vessels sailing the high seas. there are also thousands of huge tankers and even more container ships, some of which also run on heavy fuel oil. around one billion of the annual 31 billion tons of co2 emitted worldwide come from shipping. but that could be prevented. if the ships ran on diesel it would be a cleaner alternative, but costs would rise by around 1/3. environmentalists are calling for the extreme levels of sulfur in the ships' fuel to be reduced considerably. filters and catalysts would help to make the emissions less toxic. and the electricity consumed by the ships when they are in port could come from local suppliers and not from the vessel's engine. cruises would be more expensive but a lot greener, too. and now over to you. if you want to have your say, do find us online or send us an e-

mail. roland schrade in malaysia has done just that. he's commented on our report on the football professionals who campaign for the environment in namibia. he writes -- "this is a very good idea. german football players are famous all around the world. having football players promote and show how it's done is a very good marketing idea. hope you are successful. here in malaysia it is very difficult to get things moving toward protecting the environment. but never give up." well, thank you, roland. i am sure the german football players will be glad to hear that. and that was "global 3000." thanks for watching. from me and the whole global team here in our berlin studios, bye-bye.

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