Getting Personal With AIDS and Africa

Posted on Jun 4, 2007

AP Photo / Jerome Delay

Bongos, an 8-year-old HIV-positive boy, waits in a hallway of the medical clinic at the Sparrow Rainbow Village in Johannesburg, South Africa, in November 2005.

Stephanie Nolen, the last Western journalist covering the AIDS beat in Africa, tells Truthdig it is unfortunate but true that the more people die, the less people care, which is why she has decided to get personal with a new book that approaches the crisis from a different perspective.

Click here for a full transcript.

Elsewhere: .

Comments

Are you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig.