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I know I'm a little out of date here, but I just saw that the musical Rent has been made into a movie. (You people who live in fancy-pants countries with movie theaters may even have seen it.)

So Rent the Movie is based on a 1996 musical about people dying of AIDS in New York. Which, in turn, is based on a nineteenth century opera about people dying of TB in Paris.

And they're all historical tales. People don't die of TB in Paris anymore and they don't die of AIDS in New York. Isn't that amazing? Rent was out of date before they even got it to the big screen.

Of course, we still have a huge problem in poor countries, but it's a solvable one. Drugs are cheap and donors have stepped up. Rwanda's getting people treated and saving thousands of lives.

Now if Rwanda only had a cinema to show these movies...