25 Aug 2011

ASIA AIDS EPIDEMIC / CONFERENCE ADVANCER

Asia’s AIDS epidemic is at a critical juncture. The region has seen impressive gains – including a dramatic drop in new HIV infections, however, progress is threatened by the ever changing face of the epidemic. At a key meeting in Busan, South Korea officials, civil society and people living with HIV will discuss how to ensure momentum is not lost. UNAIDS (EMBARGOED UNTIL 26 AUG 0000 GMT).

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STORY: ASIAN AIDS EPIDEMIC / CONFERENCE ADVANCER
TRT: 1:58
SOURCE: UNAIDS
RESTRICTIONS: EMBARGOED UNTIL 26 AUG 0000 GMT
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 22 AUGUST 2011 / PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA, 28 JULY 2011 / NEW DELHI, INDIA, 21 JULY 2011 / FARIDAD, HARYANA STATE, INDIA, 20 JULY 2011 / PATTAYA, THAILAND, NOVEMBER 2010 / KUNMING, CHINA, MAY 2010

SHOTLIST: 
 
1. Close up, Lina applying make up
2. Med shot, Lina applying make up and looking in mirror
3. Wide shot, karaoke parlour with security officer
4. Wide shot, entertainment workers walking up stairs with neon lights
5. SOUNDBITE (Khmer) Lina, Entertainment Worker: 
"Of course it's a risk but since we are working here, we know about it and should be prepared to protect ourselves."
6. Various shots, Noun Chanthou with doctor receiving a consultation on HIV
7. Close up, doctor filling out form
8. Wide shot, Chanthou getting blood pressure taken
9. Med shot, Chanthou getting blood pressure taken
10. Close up, ART pills on silver tray getting counted
11. Close up, pill being pour back into bottle
12. SOUNDBITE (Khmer) Noun Chanthou, Former Entertainment Worker: 
"My weight gained to 58, 59 kilo when I started to take the antiretroviral drug."
13. Close up, seated entertainment workers waiting

PATTAYA, THAILAND, NOVEMBER 2010

14. Wide shot, sorting of condoms
15. Med shot, sorting of condoms

KUNMING, CHINA, MAY 2010

16. Wide shot, Kunming street with people on bicycles and traditional gate in background
17. Wide shot, two men with needles in office
18. Wide shot, injecting drug users getting methadone therapy
19. Med shot, woman dispensing methadone liquid into a cup
20. Med shot, injecting drug user taking the liquid

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 22 AUGUST 2011

21. SOUNDBITE (English) Michel Sidibe, Executive Director, UNAIDS:
"Behaviour continues to evolve and we must keep up. We can not do what we did yesterday tomorrow. Countries must focus their programmes on the people who need them most."

NEW DELHI, INDIA, 21 JULY 2011

22. Wide shot, street with pedicabs

FARIDAD, HARYANA STATE, INDIA, 20 JULY 2011

23. Wide shot, HIV workshop at Pahal Foundation 
24. Wide shot, participants listening
25. Med shot, Maksoom Ali with condom packages
26. Close-up, participant
27. Close-up, condom coming out of package 
28. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Maksoom Ali, Pahal Foundation: 
"Our main work is to give them information about health and HIV and AIDS, so they the can take action themselves."

NEW DELHI, INDIA, 21 JULY 2011

30. Med shot, tea vendor
31. Close-up, tea being poured into plastic cups
32. Med shot, two men picking up tea from vendor
33. Wide shot, two men bringing tea to group of men who have sex with men
34. Med shot, men drinking tea
35. Wide shots, men who have sex with men walking in street
36. Wide shot, street

STORYLINE:

Lina is an entertainment worker at a karaoke parlour in Phnom Penh and is aware of a possibly job hazard - HIV.

SOUNDBITE (Khmer) Lina, Entertainment Worker: 
"Of course it's a risk but since we are working here, we know about it and should be prepared to protect ourselves."

Cambodia has reduced its HIV infection rates with effective prevention programmes for people who sell sex.

It is also one of only eight countries in the world to provide lifesaving treatment to more than 80 percent of people eligible.
  
SOUNDBITE (Khmer) Noun Chanthou, Former Entertainment Worker: 
"My weight gained to 58, 59 kilo when I started to take the antiretroviral drug."

Progress is occurring across Asia and the Pacific.

New HIV infections are down by 20 percent.
 
China has a large population of injecting drug users. The country has gone from zero tolerance to actively preventing HIV transmission among drug users.

But the gains are fragile.

SOUNDBITE (English) Michel Sidibe, Executive Director, UNAIDS:
"Behaviour continues to evolve and we must keep up. We can not do what we did yesterday tomorrow. Countries must focus their programmes on the people who need them most."

India has stepped up services for sex workers.

But its programmes to protect men who have sex with men are still too few.
 
The Pahal Foundation provides services to about 1100 men who have sex with men.

SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Maksoom Ali, Pahal Foundation: 
"Our main work is to give them information about health and HIV and AIDS, so they the can take action themselves."

Across the region, HIV epidemics among men who have sex with men are growing.

Unless countries scale up efforts where they are most needed, the impressive gains made in the last decade will be lost.