19891980s NEWS
The Eleventh Hour - Show #258
Title: Tales of Newark (Aids and Newark)
Original Broadcast Date: 1-1-89
Guests: Dr. Patricia Kloser, Dir. Aids Services, UMD Newark; Dr. Jeffrey Lampl, Exec. Dir. Hyacinth Foundation; Dr. James Oleske, NJ Medical School/Medical Dir. Children's Hospital Aids Program; and Newark teenagers, The Teen to Teen theater group, in the audience who are using theater as a form of Aids prevention awareness.
Description: The Eleventh Hour examines the intense impact of the Aids virus on the City of Newark, New Jersey especially in minority groups, and the "powers to be" who refuse to recognize the city's needs and would prefer a performing arts center over an Aids Clinic.
Title: Tales of Newark (Aids and Newark)
Original Broadcast Date: 1-1-89
Guests: Dr. Patricia Kloser, Dir. Aids Services, UMD Newark; Dr. Jeffrey Lampl, Exec. Dir. Hyacinth Foundation; Dr. James Oleske, NJ Medical School/Medical Dir. Children's Hospital Aids Program; and Newark teenagers, The Teen to Teen theater group, in the audience who are using theater as a form of Aids prevention awareness.
Description: The Eleventh Hour examines the intense impact of the Aids virus on the City of Newark, New Jersey especially in minority groups, and the "powers to be" who refuse to recognize the city's needs and would prefer a performing arts center over an Aids Clinic.
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Slate: The Eleventh Hour #258, Tales of Newark
Rec: 11/13/89 Dir: Andrew Wilk |
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Host Robert Lipsyte standing in studio introduces topic of tonight's program - the Aids epidemic in Newark, New Jersey. Seems the "powers to be" feel a performing arts center is more important than a subacute Aids facility!
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Funding for the program by announcer and overlay the Eleventh Hour graphic.
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Host Robert Lipsyte welcomes viewers and introduces himself.
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Lipsyte continues to talk about the topic of Aids and announces the Vatican's proposal for doctors to push the use of condoms and clean syringes as prevention for Aids. Lipsyte introduces guests coming up on the show and cuts to an offsite segment about the struggle against Aids in Newark, New Jersey, one of the hardest hit cities.
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Ambulance, white with yellow and orange detail backing up - Emergency Medical Service and UMD (University of Medicine and Dentistry) written on the side and phone number 456-6290
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Shot from behind, little African American kid in hospital pajamas pushing his IV stand down the hall of hospital accompanied by hospital worker (partially obscured)
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Female nurse or doctor carrying a chart walking swiftly through crowded waiting room.
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African American male with oxygen, on stretcher, being wheeled by EMT worker into hospital
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Dr. Patricia Kloser, from the University of Medicine and Dentistry, examining an African American female, using swabs, and looking into her mouth. Lipsyte narrates - Dr. Kloser runs the Aids program at UMD in Newark.
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Pan crowded outpatient clinic waiting room, mostly African Americans, at UMD in Newark, their largest public hospital. Lipsyte narrates abut Dr. Kloser who handles a very large patient caseload.
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African American woman and Dr. Closer coming out of office, sign on door - Infectious Diseases.
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African American patients sitting in clinic waiting room.
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Dr. Kloser walking swiftly down the hallway, entering a patient room, pushing the curtain aside. She narrates about the large patient caseload, and how unfair it is for a patient to have to wait to see a doctor for over 5 hours.
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African American woman sitting at table looking a paperwork, Dr. Kloser enters room and sits at table.
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African American male patient in hospital bed being wheeled down wide hallway by female nurse.
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Close up on little baby infant in hospital crib hooked up with tubes, hand holding its head
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pan out on infant in hospital crib, doctor standing by rubbing its head, African American woman looking on sadly. Lipsyte narrates 1 in 22 babies born in Newark has the Aids virus.
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Female nurse or doctor helping male patient getting into hospital bed, two other male doctors looking on.
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Female doctor, stethoscope around her neck, standing at patient's bedside holding his or her's hand and looking on compassionately (patient's face obscured by hospital equipment).
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Dr. Patricia Kloser talking with unseen unknown interviewer about the negative impact on the quality of healthcare as the Aids virus spreads. She states the impact will affect mostly women and children.
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African American women and children sitting in clinic waiting room.
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Close up baby girl with pacifier in her mouth sitting on the lap of unseen mom or dad.
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Pan peds standing around in Newark, New Jersey on a rainy day as Lipstye, unseen, narrates giving statistics about the Aids virus there.
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African American male patient wearing blue hospital pajamas lying in hospital bed by himself. Portable TV in upper corner.
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Wide shot of waiting room in clinic. African American men, women and kids sitting on red chairs.
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Shot from behind, African American woman in pink t shirt in same waiting room knitting. Continued narration by Robert Lipsyte.
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Sneakered feet of the people in the same waiting room
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Wide shot of doctors and nurses in large room of hospital standing talking, women working at desks covered in papers.
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Dr. Kloser in hospital jacket with stethoscope around her neck talking with unseen unknown interviewer about most patients come in with either Shingles or HIV positive.
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Kloser talking with young Asian male intern giving him direction on the best time to relay some bad news to a patient.
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Hospital workers in office, standing, working, lots of papers scattered on desks.
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Shot from behind, camera following Dr. Kloser down long hospital corridor. Lipsyte narrates.
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Dr. Kloser still walking down corridor knocks and enters patient's room. She is heard talking with a young patient.
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Empty hospital corridor, yellow door to patient room is open, yellow cart outside door. Kloser is heard but not seen gently talking with a patient inside the room. Patient (a child) is heard saying, "I wanna go home"...
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Dr. Kloser sitting talking with unseen unknown interviewer about her Aids patients, some have no where to go when released or no one to take care of them...
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cutaway, to photo of a binder (label is illegible). Narrated by Lipsyte he explains the study done two years ago by the New Jersey State Health Department on healthcare needs
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Bullet points scroll over binder. *Sub-Acute Care; *Hospice Care, *Residential. with narration.
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Exterior pan of the Crippled Children's hospital in Newark
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Pan out from view of downtown Newark, tall buildings
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wide shot new contemporary office building with multi story parking garage.
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Architectural arches - front of Newark Museum of Art brick building in downtown Newark, New Jersey. Lipsyte unseen narrates.
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Pan out from beautiful old brick Newark Museum of Art building.
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Tilt down and pan across the river in Newark on foggy day, industrial looking buildings dotted along shore. Lipsyte narrates this is the future site of the 25 million dollar performing arts center.
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Hospital of Cripled Children sign/plaque on brick building with graffiti. Lipsyte narrates the children's hospital is tied up in a deal to get land for the proposed art center.
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Newark Mayor Sharpe James sitting stoically in big leather chair at his desk in office.
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Newspaper clipping headlined, "AIDS patients shunted aside for arts center. Terminally ill need a clinic but mayor wants to sell site."
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Overlay newspaper clipping - statement by Mayor James, "Newark's future development and emergence as the preeminent urban center in the region hinges on the actualization of the Performing Arts Center."
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Dr. Kloser speaking with unseen interviewer expresses her frustrations about the politicians who refuse to talk and address the problem of Aids.
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Dr. Kloser examining an African American female patient holding patient's shirt up from behind exposing patient's back and using her stethoscope.
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Cutaway to the Eleventh Hour studio, Host Lipsyte unseen introduces his guests, Dr. Patricia Kloser , Dir. Aids Services, UMD Newark: Jeffrey Lampl Exec. Dir. Hyacinth Foundation.; Dr. James Olesky, Professor Pediatrics and Medical Dir. Children's Hospital Aids Program; and Newark teenagers in the audience who are using theater as a form of Aids prevention.
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INTERVIEW:
Robert Lipsyte: We'll hear from some Newark teenagers who are using theater as a form of AIDS prevention. Welcome, Jeffrey. Let me let me ask you this, we heard a Newark Councilman say that the city is putting art and buildings ahead of people? Is that an accurate appraisal of what's happening in Newark? Jeffrey Lampl 8:54 I don't know I just looked at the evidence. And the evidence that we have in the city of Newark, and to a large extent in the state of New Jersey today is quite simply that the services that people need are not out there. We don't have transportation services available. We don't have residential services available for the 1000s of people infected and affected by the virus. So I just look at the evidence without guessing at what the city government is doing or not doing and the evidence, I think is very clear and indisputable. Robert Lipsyte 9:22 Dr. Oleske is not the same evidence that you're faced with. Dr James Oleske 9:24 We're faced with a growing number of families with children. And for every child, there's a woman the numbers are catastrophic, and becoming worse. Services are difficult to obtain transportation, housing, respite care, residential care. We've been lucky that up to now New Jersey has been able to find very good loving foster care for some of our patients, but we're running out of those people. And my fear is who's going to care for these children in the years to come when it's not just the three 4000 children in New Jersey that now infected, but it's in the 10s of 1000s. Robert Lipsyte 10:03 Dr. Kloser you're so close to why is this happening? I mean, one would think that with this growing catastrophe, and you can't be the only people aware of it, that there isn't a tremendous outpouring of help and support. Dr Patricia Kloser 10:15 I'm not sure that it's realized how many people are out there. It's one thing to look at the problem nationwide and to read the New York Times or whatever your newspaper of choices, but it's something different to be on the front line, seeing people every day seeing new patients, every day, new patients that are diagnosed and seen for the first time in our clinics and outpatient departments. Robert Lipsyte 10:39 Dr. Oleske, we're led to believe that Newark is in a sense, a model of the future of AIDS in this country. Dr James Oleske 10:46 There's no question that New Jersey and Newark in particular has been a bellwether for this disease. Heterosexual spread is not a myth. Whoever wrote that book and come to Newark, New Jersey. I hate to say this, but in 1985, I predicted that might be 10 to 20,000 children infected with this virus by 1991. At the most recent meeting in 1989. In Los Angeles, a follow up meeting, everyone agreed that what was was first considered an overestimation in numbers is now an underestimation a number, I think by the year 2000, unless we do something about this disease, develop preventive strategies, there might be 10 to 20 million Americans infected with this virus Robert Lipsyte 11:24 120 million American conservative, Jeffrey Lampl 11:26 conservative conservatively I think the numbers that you used for Newark, I thought were conservative figures, what would you well, you use the figure that was basically 10 to one for every one person identified 10 People infected, which the CDC, as I understand it uses that figure, but that's a national average, the figures are much higher in our urban centers, such as Newark, to put it into perspective, for example, Newark has the fourth highest caseload of all cities in the United States coming right after New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. So for a state our size, and putting in population of that size, it really is quite a problem. And one you would think has to have a very deep hole for your head not to see those kinds of those kinds of figures. Robert Lipsyte 12:07 Would anybody like to hazard a guess as to why there's that hole? Dr James Oleske 12:12 Well, I think the problem is that the populations that have gotten aids in the past and the populations that are suffering now, from my point of view, especially poor women and children, have never gotten good services before have never been appreciated. And that's probably continuing so that the whole and services for our patients, or I think directly related to these poor people, everyone thinks that the face of the patient with ages is somebody else. I think that that's going to change for the next 10 years. Yes, Pat and I are going to deal with poverty and patients who are poor having AIDS. But if we don't do something now, I've said this before, and I'll say it again, the wolf at everyone's do it because not just poor people have sex and not just poor people use drugs. So it may take 10 years, but this disease is going to erode into the rest of our society, the other person with AIDS is going to be ourselves and our children so that if you don't want to do it because of compassion, I think then for self interest, people start should start responding to this epidemic. Dr Patricia Kloser 13:18 I think even in our hospital situation at University Hospital in Newark. In the beginning, we had a lot of problem with health care workers, stigmatizing the patients. And now what I'm seeing is I'm seeing the health care workers themselves approaching me either because of their high risk behavior, the high risk behavior of the relatives, and this includes even the administration of the hospital. These people now either are concerned for themselves or their relatives. And I think that's affecting a change in in our facility. Robert Lipsyte 13:47 We're also beginning to see people in the community go out and spread spread the word, these members of teen to team, a theater group sponsored by special audiences, travels around New Jersey Performing for their peers |
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Interview concludes. Host Lipsyte introduces a young teen African American theater group sponsored by special audiences who perform for their peers around New Jersey.
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Live performance the "Teen to Teen" theater group about Aids awareness and prevention.
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Performance concludes and Host Lipsyte reports on some Aids statistics.
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Aids statistics overlay a patient lying in a hospital bed. 109,167 Reported AIDS Cases; 64,849 Have Died; 1 to 1.5 Million Infected.
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Host Lipsyte sitting on stage with members of the theater group talks with them about their objectives.
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INSERT INTERVIEWS WITH TEEN TO TEEN THEATER GROUP
when when you guys started working on this play? What did you want to do? Ken 17:44 Well, first of all, I didn't want to catch AIDS, that's for sure. You know, basically when I got into this, but I wanted to find out more about it. You know how you get it? You know I just really wanting to find out about it? Robert Lipsyte 17:56 Have you seen it in your community or in your street? Ken 17:58 Well, I know I knew one person that had it. But you know, I haven't seen it him. You know, my community where I live it Robert Lipsyte 18:04 Antoine, what about you? Antoine 18:06 know a person? And I know one person. But that's the only person I know. For sure. Robert Lipsyte 18:13 Antonia? Antonia 18:16 I'm not, do you ask me I've known anybody, one person. But when I came into the program, it was like, it was scary at first because I didn't want it. I still don't want it. And I want other people to know how it is because a lot of people don't know. And they still don't know don't know how to catch it, and where we came from and all of that. So I feel that it's important for us to let them know before it gets too late. Robert Lipsyte 18:41 Well, in your own lives. Are you worried about AIDS? Does it scare you? Antonia 18:45 Well, now it scares the living mess out of me. But when I first came in, it was like just something to do a summer job to get paid. And then when they start schooling us well, we had to have classes in it before we start answering questions, so they was teaching us about it. Robert Lipsyte 19:01 How old are you? Antonia 19:02 I'm 16. Robert Lipsyte 19:03 And you started doing this last summer? Yeah. And and this is new information to you? Antonia 19:08 Yes. I know. I didn't know practically anything about it. And it's like, well, I don't do drugs, I go get AIDS. Robert Lipsyte 19:15 So in a sense, what you guys are doing with other people is waking them up. I mean, they don't know either. What kind of reaction do you get when you get out there? I mean, people, what do they say? Ken 19:28 Oh, I mean, it's like when we first did our first performance on the strength. I mean, after we did it, a lot of people came to us and was asking us Do you have AIDS? I mean, do you really have AIDS? Is that girl really pregnant? No. You know, we just trying to tell them. Look, this is the way you can get it. This is the way you shouldn't do you know? Don't I mean, don't get out here. Don't just go ahead and mess around with every girl or every guy you see. Protect yourself. Robert Lipsyte 19:54 Dr. Kloser. Are you surprised? I guess you're not surprised that 15, 16 year old Kids who watch television and know, don't know as much as they should know about age, |
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Wide shot of Lipsyte's three doctor guests in the studio.
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Wide shot Host Lipsyte sitting on stage with theater group
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INSERT CONTINUED INTERVIEW WITH DOCTORS AND THEATER GROUP
Dr Patricia Kloser 20:07 that isn't a surprise to me. In fact, my population ranges in age from 17, up to 77. So the fact that I have a 17 year old young woman who's going away to school and sees me during her vacation means that she contracted the disease when she was the age of these young people, or younger, Robert Lipsyte 20:26 Do you feel angry at all. I mean, you know, older men in your community, you know, live different kinds of sexual life, do you feel cheated or inhibited? Or? Antoine 20:37 No, because their lifestyle more or less, it can be dangerous. So I don't feel cheated, you know, like, I rather be the way I am, then be, you know, extremely promiscuous and have a higher risk of contracting the disease. Robert Lipsyte 20:54 Well, I actually, I was really thinking about the fact that you know, 20 or 30 years ago, guys your age, we're not thinking about this sort of thing. Do you think that your play has changed? behavior? Ken 21:10 Well, I mean, it only way this is changed behave is, if somebody is listening. That's the only way I can think Robert Lipsyte 21:18 Do you think they're listening. Ken 21:20 Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Robert Lipsyte 21:22 What about the message of racial genocide? Do you think that's true? Ken 21:28 Well, in my opinion, I don't think so. I don't I don't know Robert Lipsyte 21:33 Antoine. Antoine 21:35 In the sense, yes. For instance, yes. Because, like where I live, you see, like a lot of the drugs and things around in the area. And, you know, well, they call the I don't know the word they use $5. crackheads, what they call, they're out there, and they'll do it. They'll, you know, have sex with anyone for a drug. And it's crazy, you know? Robert Lipsyte 21:59 Dr. Oleske? Do you think that there's anything genocidal in this Dr James Oleske 22:05 I don't think AIDS is a racial disease. Aids takes advantage of the biggest minority minority in this country. And that's poor people. So that I think, unfortunately, for very bad reasons, unacceptable reasons blacks and Hispanics and people of color have been represented unduly are poor population, urban centers. This is not a racial disease, black people aren't more susceptible than white people to getting this disease, it does take advantage of poverty. And as the actors have stated, drugs have been the biggest culprit What scares me is to see what's crack and this new drug ice is doing to our adolescence, we may lose a whole generation of young people if their message doesn't get at, get out to, to their, to their people of their age, because if we lose that generation, you and I, and those who survive, we're gonna have to work until we're 80 and 90, because there's going to be no workforce out there. Our countries going to be devastated by this disease. And it's going to be devastated by the virus HIV, and by the drug crack. And I'm frightened by that. Because as as he rightly pointed out, people who take crack, have no sense of what they're doing. They'll do anything for that next hit, they'll prostitute. They'll take other drugs, they won't take any precautions, and they're going to get AIDS. Robert Lipsyte 23:25 Jeffrey, do you think that there's somebody we can at least point a finger at or ask who is should be responsible? Jeffrey Lampl 23:32 Well, I think certainly government is responsible government should be our ally in this struggle, and I don't think they've been very good ally, you know, they should be, in theory. The help of government should be indispensable. And in fact, it's disappointing. I think the racial overtones that we're talking about too, are people striving for an explanation, people in the frontlines striving for an explanation of why it is that we're not getting this kind of help. So the genocide issue is as plausible as anything else, because I think people have a hard time understanding why there isn't a more concerted effort to a Prevent help people prevent contracting the virus, but just as importantly, providing those services to people who are or are already sick, which are cost effective, which would save money i i take issue with some of what Dr. Oleske said in the sense that the first wave of this epidemic occurred with people who weren't poor and weren't necessarily inner city and we still had no response from from government or very little response from government. Now the epidemic is in our inner cities. The next wave, though, is coming when you spoke about the next wave being women in the inner cities and children in inner cities that for us in the front lines, I think we'd say that wave has already gone by. We're looking as Dr. Oleske said, we're looking at the next wave, which is this virus spreading out Robert Lipsyte 24:58 Jeffery I am one of the The people who has a hard time understanding why more isn't being done. Jeffrey Lampl 25:06 I think it comes down I can only talk for the state of New Jersey, I think in the state of New Jersey that there isn't an identifiable political constituency, which has been able to bring pressure to bear on the governor on the health department and on the state legislature to make a difference in areas where there has been some political actions such as in New York City in San Francisco and Los Angeles and Texas and other places like that. There has been much more done in response Robert Lipsyte 25:31 Well in those places, there was a affluent middle class, white male lobby, that did have some clout. But as Dr. Olekse pointed out, this is this is an opportunistic disease that also goes mostly for poor people. |
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Wide shot of studio, Lipsyte's guests speaking as theater group looking on, listening.
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Host Lipsyte sitting with two African American females from theater group and talking with featured guests.
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INTERVIEW CONTINUES:
Dr James Oleske 25:47 is tragically born to a woman who has AIDS. And that child has two things that's going to happen to it, either it's going to die before its mother, or its mother is going to die before it. And it's always going to be orphaned, or eventually die of this disease. That mother who is sick and dying in the same disease a child is dying from is frequently poor, frequently has a poor education, and frequently is so sick that she can't even be a good advocate for her own child. And that's the crux of the problem. Who speaks for the children who speaks for the infected woman? Robert Lipsyte 26:22 What's going to break this cycle? Dr James Oleske 26:26 I think unfortunately, what's going to break this cycle is when that next wave leaves Nuuk when that next wave hits, people who have some more affluence, who are not gay, who are not people of minorities, who never thought the epidemic would touch them. And as Pat said, it's starting to happen Robert Lipsyte 26:45 starting to happen now. Dr. Oleske Dr. Kloser Jeffrey lampl. thank you so very much. We'll be leaving you with another excerpt from a special audience's play. That's the 11th hour I'm Robert Lipsyte. |
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Host Lipsyte standing in front of small TVs thanks guests and announces end of show excerpt of a play. He announces the show and introduces himself.
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Live Rap performance by the Teen to Teen Theater group
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Credits overlay Teen to Teen Theater group performance
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Charitable funding for show by announcer.
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