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Love as a Test
‘Love as a Test’ is a four-part TV soap that presents the realities of living with HIV in Kyrgyzstan. It was created to appeal to youth and adults all across Kyrgyzstan, mirror their lives, provide them with basic information about HIV and the country’s particular epidemic, help them understand that HIV can infect and affect anyone including themselves and those close to them, reduce their tendencies to be afraid and to stigmatize and discriminate against people living with HIV, and change their behaviour so they take steps to protect themselves from infection and to provide compassionate care for people living with HIV. For more information see: TV soap operas in HIV education: Reaching out with popular entertainment (Click the links below to open and close the videos - with fast Internet connection you can select 'High Quality' HQ from the Menu)  Sida dans la Cité (SDLC) (AIDS in the City) is a television series that aims to promote safer sex and address issues related to HIV/AIDS in West Africa. The SDLC series was produced by Population Services International (PSI)/Côte d'Ivoire and its local partner, the Agence Ivoirienne de Marketing Social (AIMAS), to promote AIDS prevention practices. It received financial support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW - German Development Bank) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Synopsis Series 1 and 2: When Jackie learns that her husband, Serapo, is HIV-positive she leaps to the conclusion that he has been unfaithful and leaves him, taking their two children with her to their village. There, she is too ashamed to admit what is troubling her and the village Chief sends her back to be with her husband. She tells her best friend Mado why she is so angry, having no idea that Serapo is the mysterious “international civil servant” to whom Mado attributes her pregnancy. Still angry, Jackie agrees to go for voluntary HIV counselling and testing and, before she gets her results, the counsellor tells her that Serapo may not have been unfaithful. He may have acquired his infection from her and she may have acquired it from someone else before she got married. When Jackie protests that it is years since they got married and she is not ill, the counsellor tells her an HIV-positive person can remain healthy for years and can continue being sexually active. He tells her that whether or not a sexually active woman is HIV-positive, she should always carry a condom and insist that her partner use it. So the story continues, gradually throwing light on most of the issues surrounding the spread of HIV in Côte d’Ivoire.  The series' 3 four separate stories promote responsible behaviour change amongst the sexually active populations of West and Central Africa, motivate increased demand for and use of voluntary counseling and HIV testing services, and aim to reduce stigmatisation of people living with HIV/AIDS by demonstrating the possibility of living positively with the virus. Video documentation of the 2008 Special Event Day in MalawiWithin the framework of the German Development Cooperation’s (GDC) HIV & AIDS response in Malawi and the HIV & AIDS Workplace Programme for its staff country-wide, GTZ organized the 3rd Special Event Day. The guest of honour at this event was former Vice President of Malawi - Hon. Dr. Justin Malewezi. This video documents the occasion whose main purpose was to create a platform necessary for the GDC’s staff and their spouses to acquire knowledge and skills on how to take care of their health by using cost-effective means. Various tests were offered for free including: HIV testing, Diabetes, Hypertension (HTN) and Obesity screening.
Enjoy the video! (08:49 Min.) For more information, contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it TV spots and songs to target sexually active youth In Niger, as in many other countries, the needs for family planning and health services tend to be greatest among the poorest and least educated people in rural areas. However, the needs for HIV prevention tend to be greatest among the richest. and best educated people in urban areas. They may be better informed about HIV and how to prevent it but, still, they engage in more high-risk sexual activity (e.g., with non-cohabiting partners including sex workers) and, while they may know they should wear condoms, they fail to wear them often enough that they are at high risk of acquiring HIV.With that in mind, the Social Marketing Project has targeted sexually active youths right across Niger with television spots and songs featuring Mali Yaro, ZM and other popular entertainers. The television spots are more likely to reach those in urban areas but the songs can be played on radio and reach at least some young adults in rural areas. (Click the links below to open and close the videos - with fast Internet connection you can select 'High Quality' HQ from the Menu) Sexual education on DVDIn 2004, the project ANIMAS-SUTURA produced French, Djerma and Hausa versions of a 52-minute video on DVD (or CD) called “Realité de SIDA en Niger”, which features medical doctors and other experts providing basic information about STIs, HIV and AIDS and other sexual and reproductive health issues. This video continues to be used in schools and other venues. The Other Choice - Oral Substitution Therapy in Nepal This is a documentary about oral substitution therapy in Kathmandu, Nepal. It follows a patient who is in methadone maintenance treatment. Several experts and stakeholders have been interviewed in the film. Main objective of the documentary is to explain how methadone is a beneficial tool in the prevention of HIV/AIDS and treatment of drug addiction. It was broadcast twice on the main national private TV station and 300 copies have been distributed to treatment providers and other stakeholders.Director: Miraz Roshan; Production: FAITH (Click the links below to open and close the videos - with fast Internet connection you can select 'High Quality' HQ from the Menu)  Founded in 1978, Atelier Théâtre Burkinabè (ATB) is a professional theatre company at the core of the Fédération Nationale Théâtre Forum (FNTF), an association consisting largely of local groups of amateur actors who use forum theatre to engage audiences inter-actively in performances that entertain but also educate about a wide range of development issues. In 2000, ATB launched a national theatre school to train Burkinabe people in this kind of theatre and eventually to become an international centre for training. Every two years, ATB hosts the International Festival of Theatre for Development. ATB also produces radio and television series, all designed to entertain and educate. Since 2004, PROSAD has been supporting ATB and FNTF as they produce plays designed to address the issues covered by all three of PROSAD’s components. These plays are refined through performances in Ouagadougou and then taken to the regions, where ATB’s core group of actors work with local actors on translating them into local languages and adapting them to reflect local cultures and circumstances. During performances, there may be opportunities for audience participation in determining turns of plot and alternative endings. Immediately after performances, there are always opportunities for lively discussion. Following these discussions, people often come forward to ask for advice or assistance with matters of personal concern, such as how they might be able to protect their own daughters from sexual exploitation and send them to school or how they might repatriate their own trafficked children. Some performances and discussions are recorded for broadcast on local radio or television so that more people may benefit. The plays are often performed in schools, with school children playing some of the roles, and with issue-oriented games and group discussions held afterwards. In Sud-Ouest, PROSAD supports an annual cultural festival that provides opportunities for additional performances of the plays, as well as for other cultural events, and school children are among the enthusiastic organizers of and participants in these festivals. The play "Le sang des enfants" (Children's blood) is about child labour in a gold mine. It was developed by ATB with technical assistance by PROSAD concerning the content. It has been documented on film (video cassette and DVD) in French and in different local languages. These films of the play are used for "debate cinemas" during information campaigns about children’s rights, child labour and child trafficking. |