Aids in Africa | 1980s Africa | Zaire | This Week | 1987

Some extracts from the original report
Correspondent Julian Manyon and his team were held under house arrest during the filming of this report, however they managed to get their film out before the arrest. This report reveals Zaire’s Aids vaccine programme and how due to a lack of equipment most of the countries hospitals no longer have the equipment to do screenings and in many cases needles and syringes are re used until they fall apart.
First shown: 19/11/1987
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[@sDINKHAN]

"Facilities ranging from inadequate to dangerous"

[@ozmodiar5561]

Honestly I think I would've rather died than gone to that hospital.

[@frimmbits]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't

[@stephankossler7986]

OMG the BLOOD refrigerator !!! :o

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

I am really horrified about the situation because that was the reason and the rationale of the nation called Zaire back then. However Thank God the nation has now managed to become the DR Congo and the effects of the HIV pandemic back then in Zaire. The nation has really been affected more than many other nations and it is imperative that All Congolese and Africans deal with the Pandemic as we have been suffering about it since the 1980s.

[@hawaiiflowers7066]

One needle for 500 people. That worked out.

[@thecajunphoenix]

It also spread HIV to everybody as well.

[@frimmbits]

And l can attest that conditions are still mediocre in 2024

[@akunnaufo7250]

The worst thing about watching this video in 2023 is probably not much has changed in this country since when this video was made. Africa what's wrong with us????

[@howtodoit4204]

Europeans brought the disease on purpose. There was a European guy arrested in South Africa for spreading the HIV virus purposefully among South Africans.

[@amzaproperyorkshirelass7180]

I understand that they aren’t as lucky as us medical wise but that fridge could be cleaned with basic soap an water

[@davelowe1977]

That sounds like it was introduced by Jonathon (not David) Dimbleby - IIRC he worked for ITV.

[@duncansmartt2107]

The point was "Mobutu" the leader living in paradise and his population in abject poverty

[@SimoTP1]

So Aids was Mobutu's fault? Even in rest of africa? Pretty ignorant.

[@daimavlog]

That’s how it is in Africa even today. They live in paradise buying expensive cars to their girlfriends and so forth. Africa Africa Africa 🥺🥺🥺

[@daimavlog]

@@SimoTP1 we are talking about being the richest man in the world, while the blood bank looks like that, while the people of his nation are that pour, he was president so he should stand for his people. African people some of us especially you are so stupid making Africa as it is today

[@pablomolto8848]

That blood bank is quite something...it needs to be part of a FearFactor challenge somehow.

[@callisto3605]

Why Africa will never develop,endemic corruption.

[@Black_city_states]

Fuckk man

[@edsonfilho24]

Soldiers and students 12% seropositive 😳

[@Theocracy8]

Why does this channel get flooded by racist comments for even irrelevant videos? I suggest that the uploader just disable the comment section and let the dogs bark elsewhere.

[@Johnathan.David.Trewhitt.]

The channel shows a short history of our political correction. Fear mongering and lies.

[@samnicholson5051]

They've had to on a few.

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

Because a lot of youtube users are racist these days.

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

@@EuropeanQohelethRacist People ou there HIV does not respect the colour of the skin in the 2020 decade.

[@ay613]

This is my parents country

[@thedesertdwellerfromutah4354]

That's nothing I'd be bragging about.

[@ay613]

@@thedesertdwellerfromutah4354 Who's bragging?

[@JCarlosCS1221]

​@@thedesertdwellerfromutah4354 what an unfortunate comment.

[@thecajunphoenix]

What were the people who ran your country thinking by not allocating more resources to the hospitals and doctors? Julian Manyon and his team were braver than brave for making the film at all let alone in getting it to the news outlets before that 'house arrest'.

[@change7174]

It's your country be proud 🇨🇩 zaire

[@yusronifarlan732]

No wearing mask at all, OMG

[@davidbulla9390]

This Documentary is so

[@garethfloydevans861]

All the rage adis were in the 80s