User Tools (skip): If it is to succeed, the fight against
HIV/AIDS in Africa must also be a war on war. This is one of the
lessons that 27-year-old African native Frédéric Samvura, a U4
Economics and International Development student and HIV/AIDS
educator, learned first-hand while living for three years in a
Kenyan refugee camp before he came to McGill. "It's an issue of
people not being where they're supposed to be because of
conflicts. I can't say that without conflict we can easily
control HIV/AIDS, but conflicts aggravate HIV/AIDS and eliminate
the possibility of really acting," said Samvura, who at 15 fled
Rwanda with his family in the midst of the 1994 genocide to the
city of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). At 21,
having completed his first year of study in economics at a
Congolese university, Samvura had to relocate across borders
once again, this time to the Kenyan refugee camp, where he would
stay for three years. Leaving the DRC and his family for Kenya
was a precaution he thought w