and it can't just be gay men and so someone came to me and said, and you know, that your partner, dion jones and she is a nurse at san francisco general and she is doing incredible work on the emerging aids, and we don't have a definition about it, and it is the aids epidemic and we would like her to be on the commission? you are kidding she does not qualify. and i said, well, why not. and so this is our fellow, democrats, and i said, because she is an employee of the health department. and i said, you should ask me. and i said, but you don't qfy

and it can't just be gay men and so someone came to me and said, and you know, that your partner, dion jones and she is a nurse at san francisco general and she is doing incredible work on the emerging aids, and we don't have a definition about it, and it is the aids epidemic and we would like her to be on the commission? you are kidding she does not qualify. and i said, well, why not. and so this is our fellow, democrats, and i said, because she is an employee of the health department. and i said, you should ask me. and i said, but you don't qualify, you don't know anything about healthcare. and i said, well i am a fast learner, and i am a community organizer. and of course i am a fast learn, right? and well, we will have to check with the democratic party on this, and okay. and so, you know, i said, fine, any way, so i became a commissioner under the director hernandez and she said to me, okay, you have to be, and laguna honda on the finance committee, and i am like, the learning curve? right? >> and so i ended up at laguna honda, and later on and so it has been and it was a wonderful 12 y

kilometers from home, broke and stranded in southern senegal, from guinea, he shares the small hut with dion jonesnd two others. they all came here to make money digging gold. the ebola outbreak brought it to a halt. >> the police don't want us to go down the mine anymore. they are arresting some of our friends who went digging. they are making random checks on us. >> the u.n. estimates there are tens of thousands of west african migrants who work in the informal gold mines. many are stranded. authorities fear they could bring the ebola virus into the country. so they have closed off the border and applied strict restrictions to the trade. only registered companies compliant with health safety standards are allowed to continue to operation. but few actually meet these requirements. >> gold miners in this village belief the government is intentionally pushing them out of business, using the ebola outbreak as an excuse to close the mines down. >> dozens of registered company, mostly foreign owned continue to look for gold. the authorities say they will allocate more land to them. ebola as of today h