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862: Some Things We Don't Do Anymore
Act Two

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Two Americans moved to Eswatini when that country was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic. With support from USAID, they built a clinic and started serving HIV+ patients. Now that US support for their clinic has ended, they are wondering if what they did was entirely a good thing. (27 minutes)

Chico Harlan wrote about USAID in Eswatini for The Washington Post.

By Diane Wu and Chico Harlan

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