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. >> reporter: in count kinshasa, night life dominates. people come out to listen and dance to songs bisome of the continent's greatest artists. rich music culture, the most popular kind of music in the country, getting people here to appreciate tropical music has been difficult. the band tries out a classical tune. they tell us it is not something they would go to watch. >> the music is so popular because it is our language. these young people today just want to play and listen to foreign music. >> reporter: back at the chart it is the children's time to rehearse and to keep those profits low that are passionate and practice every day. playing his violin keeps him grounded. he is in secondary school and plans to join the main orchestra group. one day he plans to compose and conduct his own music. >> translator: when i see the others playing it,. >> reporter: the young musician and his dad has to go before it's too dark. they live in a more dangerous part of the neighborhood. his elder siblings are also in the orchestra. classic example of
. >> reporter: in count kinshasa, night life dominates. people come out to listen and dance to songs bisome of the continent's greatest artists. rich music culture, the most popular kind of music in the country, getting people here to appreciate tropical music has been difficult. the band tries out a classical tune. they tell us it is not something they would go to watch. >> the music is so popular because it is our language. these young people today just want to play and listen to...
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catherine soy, al jazeera, kinshasa. >> that marks the end of this bulletin. we recommend you check out our website, aljazeera.com is where you find it. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> thanks for joining us on "america tonight." i'm joie chen. what we want for our most fragile elderly or others who need nursing home care is a safe and healthy environment but too often we've seen that ends up not being the case where care homes end up being anything bupt. no but. add to that, funds that end up being redirected to projects that in no way protect those most vulnerable patients. it is an outrage and a tragedy that "america tonight's" sheila macvicar investigated in florida. >> when the palms of sebring created what he called loving homes for its residents, the state gave $12003 million, that came from a special trust fund intended to improve care for failuressing home residents. how did the for profit nursing home in south florida spend it? not on extra staff or better housekeeping but on a redecorating spree that included chandeliers, clear fronded refrigerators. >> it borders on malfe
catherine soy, al jazeera, kinshasa. >> that marks the end of this bulletin. we recommend you check out our website, aljazeera.com is where you find it. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> thanks for joining us on "america tonight." i'm joie chen. what we want for our most fragile elderly or others who need nursing home care is a safe and healthy environment but too often we've seen that ends up not being the case where care homes end up being anything bupt. no but. add to that, funds that end...
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on monday and tuesday i was in kinshasa, dealing with the context of malaria. mosquitoes use different patterns. they're talking about the zika mosquitoes. just the sobering facts in terms of health care investment that is needed. i was astounded by this, but, the democratic republic of congo with a 70 million people be total government expenditure for all purposes in the congo this year will be $5 billion. that is all but the government of congo spends on everything. you see the scale challenge. building up a primary health care system would cost many multiples of $5 billion. so to get back to this point about a weak infrastructure and weak institution, it is sobering. coca-cola, we have collaborated with different places around the world. the supply chain yield gives us the ability to move product. world-class ability to influence behavior. that is what marketers like coca-cola do. obviously, you have a workforce that is affected by many global challenges. it is important to try to figure out the private sector in the context -- it is the case. i think it is
on monday and tuesday i was in kinshasa, dealing with the context of malaria. mosquitoes use different patterns. they're talking about the zika mosquitoes. just the sobering facts in terms of health care investment that is needed. i was astounded by this, but, the democratic republic of congo with a 70 million people be total government expenditure for all purposes in the congo this year will be $5 billion. that is all but the government of congo spends on everything. you see the scale...
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we also know by now, by the 19 of 0 in kinshasa there was epidemic of hiv aids. there were hundreds of thousand of people infected. because of the post colonial chaos in the 1960s and '70s, health infrastructure collapsed, there was civil war going on. nobody noticed. it wasn't until the 1980s that we took notice of hiv here in new york and of course on the west coast. so cameroon was the place where hiv-1 originated. as i said we went there because, we wanted to understand whether this place still today has the potential to basically breed another virus or facilitate another zoo necessary notoc emergence of the -- zoonotic emergence of virus. this is scientists gathering samples for the laboratory in philadelphia for hiv analysis. this is very remote area. it takes fourdais to get there and there is rainforest area. but there are huge logging operations going on. it is not going on funny enough at edges of the forest but going on the middle of the forest. so the cameroon government is auctioning off to international companies certain areas in the rainforest wher
we also know by now, by the 19 of 0 in kinshasa there was epidemic of hiv aids. there were hundreds of thousand of people infected. because of the post colonial chaos in the 1960s and '70s, health infrastructure collapsed, there was civil war going on. nobody noticed. it wasn't until the 1980s that we took notice of hiv here in new york and of course on the west coast. so cameroon was the place where hiv-1 originated. as i said we went there because, we wanted to understand whether this place...