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STORY: SUDAN / WORLD AIDS DAY
TRT: 2.11
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 NOVEMBER, 01, DECEMBER, 2010, JUBA, SUDAN
30, NOVEMBER, 2010, JUBA, SUDAN
1. Wide shot, Juba town
2. Med shot, sign reading “counseling testing centre”
3. Med shot, counselor demonstrating how to use female condom
4. Wide shot, counselor doing the demonstration
5. Close up, female condom
6. Med shot, woman being counseled
7. Close up, testing kits
01, DECEMBER, 2010, JUBA, SUDAN
8. Wide shot, World Aids day parade
9. Wide shot, soldiers marching
10. Med shot, school children marching
11. Wide shot, crowds attending the event
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Esterina Novello, Chairperson of Southern Sudan Aids Commission:
“People are coming from the neighboring countries for their own different interests, whether business, looking for greener pasture or whether for any other official duties. But again we do believe that because Southern Sudan is neighboring some countries which were hit by HIV, for example we have Kenya at one time the prevalence was very high almost 20 percent and now has come down. The same thing also for Uganda, the same thing also for DRC, so I think those are one of the ingredients of also increasing the spread of HIV.”
13. Wide shot, Lise Grande being tested
14. Med shot, Lise Grande
15. Close up, her finger
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Lise Grande, UN Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan:
“Less than 1.5 for the entire [Southern Sudanese] population is tested, it was when I saw that I realized that the UN needs to step forward and make a statement, do something symbolic that will draw attention to the importance of testing. I myself had never been tested; just like a lot of people I think HIV AIDS wasn’t something that was going to touch me personally. But when I was look at the statistics for the south, I asked myself those hard questions about my own responsibility. I said no its time for me, I need to step forward, I need to do it publicly, I will do it on world Aids Day. I will make sure that the people of the south see the UN taking this step.”
17. Wide shot, people living with Aids group performing
Southern Sudan marked this year’s World AID Day with an HIV testing and counseling campaign throughout Central Equatoria state. In Juba the capital of the semi-autonomous South, mobile HIV testing centers were set up hoping to mobilize communities to access free testing.
Over the last four years, there has being an increase the HIV prevalence rate in the South from 2.6 percent in 2006 to 3 percent today.
Southern Sudan has experienced relative calm since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended more that two decades of war with the north in 2005. With the end of war, the South opened its boarders for movement and booming business with its neighbors.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Esterina Novello, Chairperson of Southern Sudan Aids Commission:
“People are coming from the neighboring countries for their own different interests, whether business, looking for greener pasture or whether for any other official duties. But again we do believe that because Southern Sudan is neighbouring some countries which were hit by HIV, for example we have Kenya at one time the prevalence was very high almost 20 percent and now has come down. The same thing also for Uganda, the same thing also for DRC, so I think those are one of the ingredients of also increasing the spread of HIV.”
The six-day HIV testing campaign provides people the opportunity to know their status and increase their knowledge of the disease. About 300,000 southern
Sudanese are living AIDS.
The United Nations through UNDP’s Global Fund has allocated (USD) $45 million dollars for activities on HIV / AIDS and Tuberculosis in the South. UNICEF also has centers in 20 of the most remote areas of southern Sudan to help prevent mother to child transmission of the disease.
SOUNDBITE (English) Lise Grande, UN Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan:
“Less than 1.5 for the entire [Southern Sudanese] population is tested, it was when I saw that I realized that the UN needs to step forward and make a statement, do something symbolic that will draw attention to the importance of testing. I myself had never been tested; just like a lot of people I think HIV AIDS wasn’t something that was going to touch me personally. But when I was look at the statistics for the south, I asked myself those hard questions about my own responsibility. I said no its time for me, I need to step forward, I need to do it publicly, I will do it on world Aids Day. I will make sure that the people of the south see the UN taking this step.”
Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the AIDS epidemic. In his message for the World AIDS Day, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon had this message: “Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the “three zeros” - zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths. On this World AIDS Day, let us pledge to work together to realise this vision for all of the world’s people.”
