tv Documentary RT March 1, 2013 9:28am-10:00am EST
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changed hands in georgia off to cyprus we despond the last the parliamentary election it then became clear some fundamental issues like don't think over tea with almost a third of the country's three million population living below the poverty line have largely been left on addressed the new government hasn't yet made its economic policy clear but the gorge and his family say they could be forced to leave the temporary home at any minute and they're only left to hope that the new political elite takes notice and action of their plight. reporting from belief in georgia and a couple of minutes an in-depth look at the prevention and impact of one of the deadliest viruses of modern times h i think. i've got a lot of messages from our t.v. yours who are very concerned about trolls living under skynet is not the american
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way and many are concerned about their safety and privacy congressman ted poe has introduced a bill that may address some people's concerns about drones this bill is the preserving american privacy act which clarifies how the government can use these drugs so basically the act adds bureaucracy to drone usage in order to restrict it in theory protecting people's privacy. the thing is that one side is arguing for drone usage and the other side for bureaucratic restricted drone usage but what about not using drones to spy on americans ever no drones should be used on american territory period and overseas they seem to breed more terrorists than they kill saying that there are only two sides to this issue for drones and well kind for drones is absurd congressman paul if you would please be so kind as to change the name of your legislation to the drones are an acceptable form of tyranny act i would be very grateful to you sir but that's just my opinion.
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at the start this strange new disease affecting healthy young americans looks like this a period between the first outbreak of a summer night hundred eighty one and i today five not only were people coming down with a it's and dying and so forth but nobody knew who had it or who didn't now more than
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thirty years since its arrival the face of aids looks like this but the social stigma of this disease lingers persons get educated who but in the back of their mind eight times he may still be a little dirty secret the biggest part of this little secret is its growth across black america as i've been a zyzz gotten a hold in the african-american community it's it's it's is right here is that spreading out that way described in the african-american community a collective silence has enabled it to spread across gender and sexual orientation african-americans tend to have sex with african-americans it's black men and black men usually it's black men and black women usually we're spreading death among ourselves.
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both black men down and women are at much greater risk of getting age i.v. compared to their white counterparts youth as well as adults. we began our investigation by looking at men who account for seventy percent of all new infections among blacks but what was surprising is that it's not just men who have sex with men who need to be concerned about hiv. so. i did everything possible to get in this position you know i want to you know the way i did my life was famous and free so i pretty much got what i was looking for if i'm not mistaken with him p g community club and i think that's where our first first film went out
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when he told me i didn't believe it you know because i had all these s.t.d. is like now. is a cool way he had a. bet with my thinking about it it will way but it didn't go away and stanley's response was good now and then now oh it was definitely does like i already already you know i was like ok if i get it i'm like yeah. you know i'm one again. and i probably did go get a had day you know i would not think about it because i know i know i know me so i play and we get home and. you know you tell me all had i had a long. who want out who want i would have buying. so many drugs to be just take my calls for me. and i had and you know one time i had to get stats like trees have that we. just like. i don't think.
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that be a neighborhood if you only should you know everything everything is heavy you know here they say have you very weak and you still gotta get in get it out to get these three shots so we yeah and that's the way i think. i had three blood transfusions because of it you know. so that it was an experience both in the self and after living with hiv for over thirty years if i tell you my story. is that all of it you got to go through. and it's like. everybody's body is different and you know everybody's body is different what i go through you may never go through then again you might go through it twice is worse so don't look at me and say oh yeah i'm opposed to not opposed to. someone then with h.l.v.
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. i remember when major magazine said this would never be a heterosexual disease it would always be you know in the in the gay community it would always been the drug community it would now have a spread to they had all sorts of community well that was false but when people heard that it was like all thank god i'm heterosexual i don't have to deal with i don't have to be worried about this you know this epidemic our investigation reaffirmed that men having sex with men are highly susceptible to contract ing hiv . what we also learned is that straight ahead roe sexual black men are a rising tide in contributing to the growth of this deadly virus take hundred percent of the population may be african-american but we make up a much larger percentage of the individuals that infected with hiv the
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any and it is brewing especially among young people he's a young african-american the centers for disease control have presented strong data showing that youth between ages thirteen to twenty nine are an ever growing population falling prey to h.i.v. . however we learned of a segment of this group that seems to have gone almost unnoticed youth born with this disease i've heard women use the terminology you know he gave this to me when somebody gave you something it's because you accepted i contracted hiv from this man i was in a relationship with him and we had a child i love my daughter he meant three i thank him and for whatever reason that god use him and me as a vehicle to bring this challenge to the world h.i.v.'s here the elephant isn't the
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rule is what i'm doing with that elephant i no longer. have allowed to myself and to this anger you know look what he did to me. when my parents ponit out entirely positive i was six years old and. it was on my doctor's appointment and you know how they have a play room for kids no one waiting for the doctor and i was in the play room whilst playing and they took my mom out the play room so i guess those who are paying for her to tell me my doctor came out the room and he came and picked me up from the playroom and when we went into the room i see my mom and collapse tears so me i'm pulling away from my doctor like mom and still any toys equally not i don't know why my mom was crying and she's like most we hide just come in and the doctor's is like you know your mom want to talk serious i'm like ok and she just told me she just like blurted out i guess i just passed so like explain that and
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how she just blurt she's blurted out and so my first question was that always on a diet because i used to hear like a lot of kids in africa dying from a child me an aids so that was my biggest fear that i thought i was going to die they broke down and saw a way that i could understand they you know there's medications out there that's going to take care of you but you're not this is something that's going that you're going to live with for ever i shared with the school that raising a child impossible i never expected outcome i never expected teachers would have discriminated against or even i never expected that administrators would not have taken the time to learn and understand how this disease is transmitted so they wouldn't discriminate against is just so when i went to school the next day and i had told my arm friend i say you know i went to the doctor and my doctor told me that i have my mom told me that i have hiv and i soon as i said that my teacher she automatically pull my friend away from me and put up
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a glows around the classroom and do sort of back to her knowing that i was a child cry. as if i couldn't go on in crash options to pull garbage bags around me like if i had to use the back to use the bathroom or myself choose to take my school lunch away from me although the fact that me being a child be positive she was abused she was abused by i was school system other children started harassing rave and she even got older we to know that adults treated this child the way the cheated a minute child was in catholic school. private schools you would think you know somebody know better they do better that was not the case kids used to make fun of me saying that i had the monster or they used to just that i would get things to me like this one guy used to have really long hair she cut my hair off one day like i was while i was watching a movie in class and all of a sudden i heard says gold. and i just want my and she was like yeah i'm cutting
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your hair off because you're going to die soon and i just sat there and i love how continue doing it and because i'd just like as i said we've grown up i just felt like you know this is how my life is going to be like everybody just going to make fun of me but everyone did not make fun of her and at the tender age of six trichotomy oprah winfrey and i was a millennium dream at the time that's what made donal's was doing kids that drilling with any type of onus they would send a mike to disney world i went on my show and i was sick at that time i had a fever but i was like oh farm sick i don't want to sit next to me and she would just open arms and make sweetheart i don't care what you have you're on my shoulder i want you to tell me what what do you go through in like this remember me say in talking to oprah and she was just crying my mother just start crying because man just telling everybody i'm having a child being. always sick and i thought i was going down oprah just like well how about if i say new disney world or something and hope i didn't move and then went
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they always wanted to go there and i wish eastern hope was send me to disney world i confronted her dad he said to me ain't life ain't life a bit. you know how long i've been living with this he called me and he was just like why he was on the show why did to tell people to eat i'm positive you shouldn't do that how do you think i'm going to look so is like who says like one though he says if i when he hears asked why it's on the magazine also and on the he'll just get upset like he's not supportive of glad. as raven grew into her teens life with her mom became strained they took that scene i always tell people i did try taking my life away me my mom started making really arguing and make isis thank it really matter it was just it was a lot to me at that i say my teenage years was like my most lucky is.
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i got to the age of like sixteen seventeen i had to make realize like you know even . be a mom then do something but you know she didn't know at the time and i had to realize i had to put my family sense into this like. i was born with that i did x. that is you know i can't be mad at my mother what can she do you know make make you make your future better don't don't look beyond the path i don't look at h.l.v. as a bad thing in my and of other youth in raven's age group who are planning to contract in h i v. the reaction of people what they're going to think of. the stigma that's the main one i think of the stigma that's why a lot of young kids the scary think it tested me on probably that they discussed being on stuff like that but i'm talking as they young because i'm still in the young generation that you know and that's the that's where the big al biggest
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asking americans have having me need to spot some of the family in the church to address what i have a crisis they are going through because the church was the place that sent us historically the collets the church was the place of you had the illness the chances go calm and support you you know of someone died you can depend on the church to come and bring the food you know to me come in bring whatever you need even help me to bury your loved ones you know i mean that was the church if you
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would have you didn't have that chance of going to come in and fill that gap for you. but when they first black america most family members were caught off guard those two points those points of comfort were not quite there you know thank god some people had great family support. most families back then did not know what he was on they were afraid you know there was not a lot of information there was a lot of myths so we have that myth that it's not part of me i'm not gay i'm not a lesbian oh i'm a lesbian i can't catch it. i'm not in that age group i can't catch it yes it is it's it's it's in the house many victims of a child were shunned by close family members and when they turned to the church to head the stigma that initially applied to. anybody
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to come for all that. racially religious leaders the church you know was caught up in this is a homosexual disease and you know it's you know again you know going to hell and we not going to you know we're not going to address that that he was so important for the black church to be there for the truth. because of the black church did not want to accept it because you're gay or begins each i mean instead of a bigger sort of impact in that if you're not then allowed to potentially good it has. been known effective jeter but if it did your mother your onto your brothers your sisters because they then also felt like maybe they were part of that being a child so in the beginning it's a gay white man's disease black folks it's not out issue really when people were dying left and right by nineteen eighty six african-americans accounted for twenty
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five percent of those infected with hiv causes for this rapid increase were disproportionately low response of the national state and local levels adding to these external factors was the growing stigma surrounding this infection. community as somebody. an african-american has each and that person is sentences in the sentence into. silence by family members and local clergy bound by fears and denial only strengthened the growing prejudice against those infected with hiv every black family has someone who has been addicted to drugs or alcohol as someone who was gay you know so that wasn't a new phenomenon what was new was that we were not about to talk about it in public i had a minister the said to me it's a real reverend cheek. homosexuality i don't have that problem in my church has had
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a problem. i said how because the church twelve hundred people has a soul and twelve hundred people and easily to say that ten percent of the population this gay and lesbian and you don't see anybody so you don't have anybody in your choir you don't have anybody on your deacon board on your ministerial staff on you in your administrative office no way you don't see no one gay and as i understand homosexuality and drug addiction are two taboos that were well entrenched within the black family but almost never openly discussed. aids in the black family added one more to subject to be consciously ignored many times i would preach a sermon call for a family and that would have the family come and say you cannot say that he was gay or you cannot say that he died of aids you can say of cancer but they can you can say he died of aids are you kidding me all of the whole community no.
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so the way i used to give a round that was i would have remarks come first and of course people would get up and say well i knew when he first got infected and the family would never said a word it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about it . we explored internal factors that led to the early growth in the aids epidemic in black america while doing so we learned that silence fear and denial so evident back then as undergone little more than cosmetic changes thirty one hours later. the low blood. and i have quite
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a few friends that were raised in a church you know i had lots in church service and then so quite a few churches visiting but it was something that i just didn't see. in my spirit and still to come to. enjoy the music but a lot of the other rituals just didn't sink in and as i became older and found my way islam was the only way that i knew one place that i knew go back to. something spiritually something a little more religiously grounding. from the same there isn't anything in the koran actually says about homosexuality being gay it's just a lot of the. laws governed by the sharia laws you know things that a lot of the sort of what the profit will practice. where it goes into homosexuality. it being missing. the
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point i first found out i was positive. like i said i really didn't think it would be possible i was doing a student teaching and i want all my lunch break to get my answers to get the results. and when i walked out of it and they said i was positive it was like i was livin in a fog. but i was in a daze. and i went back to work like nothing ever happened but it did it devastate i didn't know where to turn to talk to. how to tell family. i was lost. it was my mother father and we were any kitchen. and my husband says oh hi how are you what's going on and they say nothing you know i had him with me there as well when it's all me you know i need
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you guys to this is what i'm involved with in a mother was cooking we came in he said he wanted to talk and he came in my husband came in. he told us he had something to say to us and its own that i was a heavy positive this is why i'm in a relationship with a mother started crying and my father being the man he is asking so it is me your dresses and i bring you little he said out that this is the was going on and just life floored me that started the whole argument and i just walked out you know that put a big strain on our relationship. is different it's better than it was there isn't a whole lot of conversation or close to none conversation about my sexuality me being gay or made me any positive.
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washington d.c. carries the distinction of being ground zero for having the highest h.i.v. infection rate in america all of d.c. has an epidemic because there are unusual consolation as not being a state not even be in city where a cut out all of d.c. is at a number epidemic level but d.c. is not so unique when compared to other major cities across the nation if you compare metro d.c. that is diminished did the disco and its suburbs metro d.c. with metro philadelphia metro chicago metro miami were about the same there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives city d.c. is one of those twelve cities. we spoke to medical professionals concerning the disproportionate rise of hiv aids in the black community. forty five to fifty
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percent community be done with the disease as we know how to prevent it by the way african-americans are more likely to get tested in a group more likely to get to get tested would always go for the results and we always don't get into care particularly in rural graphical remote areas we tend to have a physician or a clinician who has graduated from school or from college you know ten fifteen years ago when never had to cheat persons or interview positive because it was all you remember the infectious disease physicians were treated so they still don't. know and they are not willing to. what is the level of hiv training provided for medical professionals the majority of the local hospitals and doctors offices within the district of columbia i think staff physicians nurses or personnel understand that this is not a disease of casual contact so that you go in the hospitals now and you don't see
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red bags outside of the door you don't see signs up there of isolation just because a person is positive you may see it up there for a host of other reasons but not for being positive. it would seem that this heightened awareness of medical professionals would lead to earlier detection of new age hiv patients six to two percent of patients who actually come into care are diagnosed with aids within a year of being testing positive for hiv let me see that again within a year of a diagnosis of hiv over sixty two percent of those patients are diagnosed with those patients the majority of them were receiving medical care what it means then is that the clinicians the physicians physician assistant nurse practitioner advanced practice nurse pharmacists dentist did not know the clinic. or the disease or didn't pay attention. of those who can afford medical care it appears that
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many medical practitioners are not adequately trained in detecting the early signs of hiv or may simply choose not to treat such patients nobody worries about being positive with syphilis and or nobody even thinks twice about most herpes infections and he seems to carry a burden. that we just can explain. download the official up location. language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television. set how would your mobile device if you could watch on t.v. anytime anywhere.
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