JAY D. KEASLING, Founding Director, Synthetic Biology Department, UC Berkeley NANCY S. PADIAN, Ph.D., Executive Director, Women's Global Health Imperative, UCSF; Director of International Programs, AIDS Research Institute, UCSF MUADI MUKENGE, Program Officer for Sub-Saharan Africa, The Global Fund for Women JOANNE LESLIE, PhD., Trustee, Freedom from Hunger; Professor of Women?s Health and Nutrition, UCLA BARBARA RODGERS, Anchor, "Eyewitness News," CBS 5 - Moderator Political independence has brought high hopes to many African states over the last half century; sadly, these nations have been overwhelmed by a deluge of obstacles that stand in the way of acceptable public health standards. The HIV/AIDS epidemic has had a devastating effect on communities and economies. Access to clean drinking water is still a problem for hundreds of millions of people. Preventable diseases such as malaria thrive in impovrished. Experts will gather to discuss major health problems in Africa and share messages of hope amidst the struggle. This is the second in a series of panels by INFORUM on Africa. The first panel, "U.S. Policy Toward Africa," was held on February 16th, 2006.

Zimbabwe used to be the breadbasket of southern Africa. Today it cannot feed itself. It has the world's highest inflation rate. According to the Zimbabwean government it is over 1000%. Unofficially it is said to be over 2000%. 80 percent of the population is unemployed. It also has the lowest life expectancy in the world. It's a state teetering on the brink of collapse. The public health system is falling apart. There are chronic shortages of food and foreign exchange. The entire nation is becoming militarized. The program examines various aspects of Zimbabwe's collapse and the effect this is having on ordinary people. It also looks at how President Robert Mugabe has managed to virtually destroy his nation and his people. The reporter traveled to Zimbabwe undercover because of the government's draconian restrictions on foreign journalists. There is a related piece on the current situation in Zimbabwe: http://www.prx.org/pieces/16065

FULL SHOW

0:00 - 0:59 - Billboard
1:00 - Food Aid & Piracy
6:17 - Bela Fleck
21:31 - Globe at a Glance
22:29 - Getting Malaria
25:18 - Youssou N'Dour: Roll Back Malaria
26:41 - Production Credits

28:00 - End

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0:00 - Billboard
0:57 - Pakistan Polio
7:54 - Nollywood
13:35 - Bollywood Bound
16:16 - Nation Beat
25:44 - Credits and Music
28:00 - End

Haiti is the world's first black republic. Ever since achieving independence two centuries ago, the country has been plagued by political instability. Today it is the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere. It's often cited as a typical example of a failed state. The police and justice system are almost non-existent. Even in the capital, public schools, hospitals, electricity, water and sewage barely function. In Paradise Lost, Eric Beauchemin looks at the collapse of the Haitian nation. This is the third program in The Abyss, a four-part series on failed states, produced in collaboration with the Ford Foundation.

Full Show

0:00 - 0:59 - Billboard
1:00 - 5:59 - No Audio
6:00 - 6:29 - Music Bed

Segment A
6:30 - Ghanaian Taxi Drivers
10:55 - Globe at a Glance
12:03 - Ghanaian Highlife Music

19:00 - 19:59 - Music Bed

Segment B
20:00 - Dead Aid

39:00 - 39:59 - Music Bed

Segment C
40:00 - Dead Aid Response
55:42 - Cutting Your Coat
57:59 - Credits and Music

58:59 - End

Part 4, Ghana - At 15, Dzifa Adjanu said she wanted to become an accountant so that she "wouldn't get cheated in life". Fifteen years on, this determined young Ghanaian has achieved her ambition, although it has been an enormous struggle for her family to find the money to complete her education. Education, and in particular girls' education is one of the Millennium Development goals for halving global poverty by the year 2015, and Ghana is one of the few African countries on track to meet the target of getting more girls into school - but the challenges are still enormous. Mike Wooldridge goes with Dzifa back to her old school in Ghana's Volta region, and meets her mother Margaret, who sacrificed so much to get her through. He also meets other girls who have not been so fortunate as Dzifa and have had to drop out of school due to financial problems.

Part 1 Kenya - The series starts in Kaimosi, Western Kenya. Poverty was a key issue in the recent elections in Kenya and the unrest that followed. It is here that Mike meets Isaiah, his disabled wife and six grandchildren, who live on the little they can grow on their small plot of land and the paltry seven to ten dollars a month he makes from growing tea. He has debts to pay to the tea company for the fertilizer he needs, and they can only live a day at a time. The corrugated iron roof on their two roomed tin shack is so full of holes, the rain pours in, and one of their grandchildren recently died from malaria because there's no way they can afford to buy a mosquito net on their hand to mouth existence. By contrast, their neighbors Francis and Christine are both able to work, growing and selling maize, mending bicycles and making bricks. Between them they make about two dollars a day, and own one mosquito net. Francis dreams of one day building another house he can rent out to get more income, and has plans for his future. But he complains that the pressure on the land due to the growing population and poor governance means that things are much harder today than they were twenty years ago. Mike Wooldridge visited Kenya before the recent troubles caused by the disputed presidential election.

Part One: DEVASTATING SOLUTIONS Throughout the world countries are in the midst of a food emergency that is as complex as it is dire. So, exactly how have food aid programs, farm subsidies, agri-business, and world financial institutions all contributed to the shameful truth that nearly 900 million people are starving throughout the world? Join us as we take a critical look at the issues of world hunger, poverty, and the global food crisis with the Executive Director of The Oakland Institute, Anuradha Mittal and Rachel Smolker of The Global Justice Ecology Project Part Two: DEVASTATING SOLUTIONS (2) The co-dependent and morally defunct relationship between global corporate profits and the politics of food is at the heart of why many people continue to go hungry worldwide. Global powerhouses like The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. Government and European Union, not to mention private corporations, are the true gatekeepers for global food assistance, and they are all clearly complicit in the use of food aid as a weapon. We return to our conversation with the Executive Director of The Oakland Institute, Anuradha Mittal and Rachel Smolker of The Global Justice Ecology Project