HIV

  • Part three of a three part series investigating environmental, corruption, and health concerns related to the $3.7 billion oil pipeline under construction in Chad and Cameroon. The pipeline, built by an international consortium, including the World Bank, ExxonMobil, and ChevronTexaco, is expected to begin pumping oil for the U.S. market by the end of 2003.

  • Associate reporter James Sandler investigates the smuggling of AIDS drugs from the United States into South Africa, where one in nine people now lives with HIV. The drugs are unavailable in South Africa because of their high cost and lingering opposition from the government. This story follows one smuggler's journey from San Francisco as she delivers the drugs to South African rape victims.

  • CIR associate reporter James Sandler investigates the smuggling of AIDS drugs from the United States into South Africa, where one in nine people now lives with HIV. The drugs are unavailable there because of their high cost and lingering opposition from the government. This story follows one smuggler"s journey from San Francisco to deliver the drugs to South African rape victims.

  • Many people who are infected with HIV are willing to try unproven treatments, some of which appear effective in maintaining health. But many discover that they have simply been duped or led astray by unscrupulous marketers. Reporter Sarah Henry explores the issue through the lens of Viroxan, an underground treatment that failed to provide the miracle cure it promised.

  • AIDS scams have become one of the most common kinds in the health care industry. Reporter Sarah Henry explores some of the unorthodox treatments that unscrupulous marketers peddle to desperate patients.