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STORY: MALAYSIA / DRUGS
TRT: 2:35
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / BAHASA / NATS
DATELINE: 14 FEBRUARY 2007 ; KUALA LUMPUR , MALAYSIA
1. Wide shot,family eating and watching TV
2. Close up, father's hands working with young girl's hair
3. Med shot, two boys eating, watching TV
4. Med shot, soft focus view of Suhaimi serving his HIV-infected step son
5. Med shot, high-angle view of Suhaimi serving step son
6. Close up, Suhaimi's step daughter drinking tea
7. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa) Suhaimi:
"I am the father. I am the mother. It?s not easy to do this. In the morning, I need to prepare their breakfast, then I need to go to work."
8. Close up, boy eating
9. Med shot, Suhaimi picks up tea tray and walks out of living room
10. Close up, Suhaimi's hands washing dishes
11. Wide shot, Suhaimi from behind, washing dishes
12. Close up, Suhaimi's hands washing dishes
13. SOUNDBITE Bahasa Malay; 'SUHAIMI', HIV-infected father:
"When I was taking drugs, we were a family but it was incomplete. The love wasn't there. I didn't carry out my responsibilities for my child's basic needs. Can you imagine, my son is sitting in front of me and in front of my son I'm shooting drugs."
14. Close up, drug user lighting cigarette
15. Close up, smoker taps cigarette in ashtray
16. Med shot, drug users smoking cigarettes
17. Wide shot, drug users watching TV in drop-in center
18. Med shot, drug users eating, reading, watching TV
19. Close up, user adjusts his hair in mirror
20. Med shot, Shah walks into room at drop-in center, meets homeless drug user
21. Med shot, Shah talking to user
22. Med shot, reverse-angle, Shah talking, listening
23. Close up, lower body of user
24. SOUNDBITE Bahasa Malay; 'Shah', Outreach coordinator for drug users:
"I feel that children suffer the most in the equation of HIV/AIDS and drugs. Children lose their parents. They cry, they are depressed. They see their parents suffer and then die. It is important for us to support the children by supporting their parents, so that children can grow up in the presence of their mothers and fathers and have a normal childhood."
25. Med shot, Suhaimi and director of Positive Living walk into office
26. Close up, Suhaimi's hands thumbing through documents
27. Med shot, Suhaimi and director talking
28. Close up, Suhaimi's eyes
29. Wide shot, Suhaimi helps son fix bicycle
30. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa)Suhaimi:
"I'm not expecting huge things from my children. My wish is that they become useful. Don't become like me. I want to give them a good education, so they don?t have a wasted life like mine. You don't have to be rich. The most important thing is to have a happy family."
31. Close up, wrench tightening wheel on bicycle
32. Med shot, silhouette of son spinning wheel
33. Med shot, boy turns bicycle right side up and prepares to ride
34. Wide shot, boy riding bicycle in silhouette
A family struggling with HIV tries to cope with tragedy.
It's only been a few weeks since Ina, an HIV-infected mother, died of cancer.
Suhaimi now finds himself the sole parent to his own son and his late wife's three children, including one with HIV.
SOUNDBITE (Bahasa)Suhaimi, HIV-infected father:
"I am the father. I am the mother. It's not easy to do this. In the morning, I need to prepare their breakfast, then I need to go to work."
Suhaimi also has HIV. Ina was his second wife -a woman he met while working for an HIV/AIDS support group.
Suhaimi's first wife died in 2002. It was then he learned she'd been HIV-positive, and that he was also infected. At the time, he was hooked on heroin and didn't even know he'd picked up the virus from shared needles. Even before he passed HIV on to his wife, drugs were taking a heavy toll on his family.
SOUNDBITE (Bahasa) Suhaimi:
"When I was taking drugs, we were a family but it was incomplete. The love wasn't there. I shirked my responsibilities. I didn't carry out my responsibilities for my child's basic needs. Can you imagine, my son is sitting in front of me and in front of my son I'm shooting drugs."
Injecting drug users are overwhelmingly the largest contributor to the spread of HIV and AIDS in Malaysia , accounting for three quarters of all cases in the country.
They bear a double stigma. Not only dismissed as addicts or criminals, they and their children are shunned by society, and often their own families.
Suhaimi hopes his difficult experience can help others stuck in similar circumstances. He now works for Positive Living, a network devoted to assisting HIV-positive people. He feels his mission is to make sure his children can enjoy a normal life.
SOUNDBITE (Bahasa) Suhaimi:
"I'm not expecting huge things from my children. My wish is that they become useful. Don't become like me. I want to give them a good education, so they don't have a wasted life like mine. You don't have to be rich. The most important thing is to have a happy family."
A simple hope in a family for whom what others take for granted seems like a dream.
In Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , this is Steve Nettleton reporting for UNICEF television.
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