HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries
Dr. Alexandra Levine, Chief of the Division of Hematology at the USC School of Medicine, talks about the unwillingness or inability of many public health officials in the developing nations of the world to adequately address the challenge of the HIV...
Assisting Third World Nations
Professor of Sociology and History Craig Calhoun talks about the challenge of providing First World technology to Third World countries. He notes that without adaptations that take into account the specific conditions and environment in a Third Worl...
An End to Exclusion: The Hart-Celler Act of 1965
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson talks about the factors that led to the Hart-Celler Act of 1965. Professor Jacobson explains that this legislation is the basis of current immigration law in the United States, and mark...
Water Pollution and Industrial Nations
Explorer and environmentalist Jean-Michel Cousteau compares the relative impact of Third World nations and industrial nations on the marine environment.
Worlds Apart: Poverty and Uncertainty in Africa
Along with their struggle to survive poverty, the people of Africa must also endure a pervasive sense of uncertainty that casts an enormous shadow over their daily life.