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Crossing the Border
Mexico and California's Shared Health Challenges
a 5-part series from The California Report
The 140-mile border between California and Mexico is a political distinction lost on viruses and other
public health challenges that can travel back and forth with the growing number of people
crossing each year. This 5-part series explores the health issues that bind both sides of
the border.
Toxic Waters
Mon, Sept 19, 2005
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Surfers call it a sewage Tsunami. When it rains, millions of gallons of untreated wastewater from Mexico flow into the Tijuana River and out to the Pacific Ocean near the California/Mexico border. Untreated sewage can cause a number of waterborne diseases. Sasha Khokha follows the sewage flow from hillside shantytowns in Tijuana to the beaches of San Diego and San Antonio De Los Buenos.
Bajagua Project
Tue, Sept 20, 2005
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A booming population, and rise in factory production along the California-Mexico border, have overwhelmed Tijuana's ability to process sewage. During storms, wastewater bypasses the treatment plants and flows out into the ocean threatening the health of surfers, swimmers and fisherman on both sides of the border. Sasha Khokha reports on one controversial solution, a proposed privately owned U.S. treatment plant in Tijuana.
Methamphetamine and Border Communities
Mon, Sept 26, 2005
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San Diego and Riverside Counties were once known as major producers of methamphetamine. But in the past few years, a statewide crackdown on access to chemicals used to make the drug has forced production to move south of the border. Now, cities such as Tijuana and Mexicali are hot spots for both meth labs and meth addiction. In our continuing series of stories on shared border health issues, we take a look at the rise of meth use in the Tijuana region. From KPBS, Kenny Goldberg reports.
HIV/AIDS at the Border
Mon, Nov 14, 2005
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The distance between Baja California and San Diego County is only a few yards, but Tijuana and San Diego are worlds apart when it comes to health care. With communicable diseases like HIV/AIDS, addressing the transmission of viruses across the border is critical to managing and preventing spread of the illness. Outreach workers are trying to bridge cultural and medical divides to help prevent HIV transmission in Mexico from following the devastating course of China or Africa. Scott Shafer reports.
HIV/AIDS and Seasonal Migrant Workers
Mon, Nov 21, 2005
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When they are finished with their work in the fields of California, many seasonal farm workers return home to Mexico. We travel to the Mexican state of Jalisco to see the impact HIV infections among migrant workers is having on their families and communities in Mexico and we look at what local, and national, officials are doing to educate residents. Scott Shafer reports.
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