SOUTH SUDAN / HIV TRAINING
12-Jun-2017
00:02:38
The United Nation Mission in South Sudan in collaboration with the ministry of health has graduated thirty HIV and AIDS Counselors to help in the fight against the spread of HIV and its stigma. UNMISS
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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN/ HIV TRAINING
TRT: 2:38
SOURCE: UNMISS
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 08 JUNE 2017, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
TRT: 2:38
SOURCE: UNMISS
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 08 JUNE 2017, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
SHOTLIST
1. Various shots, role playing as part of the training
2. Pan right, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General and Director of the HIV Unit watching to cast
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Boniface Mono, Trainer at SPLA:
“The issue of the discrimination, the issue of lack of knowledge, the issue of lack of access sometimes in other areas. In South Sudan some people are displaced – people they don’t have the access for the ARVs – so I feel that empathy towards them – but I also have that hope for them that with the knowledge they will get - with the provision of the ARVs and with our collective efforts, and especially the support group and especially the government – we still have that hope that they will have a future and they will live a positive life.”
4. Med shot, classroom session
5. Close up, SPLA sign on shoulder
6. Tilt up, Boniface Mono listening
7. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Eugene Owusu, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General in South Sudan:
“As we really embark on this journey, we are hoping that the guns will fall silent to enable us to achieve the noble objective that certainly we have set ourselves. We need to end stigma, face by those infected and affected by HIV, and we need to stop sexual violence perpetrated against women and girls, which only fuel the spread of HIV AIDS.”
8. Med shot, Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) senior commanders
9. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Eugene Owusu, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General in South Sudan:
“Again, the evidence we do have in South Sudan is that uniformed forces have an infection rate, two to five times higher that civilians, and that is why it is absolutely important that we strengthen our partnership with the SPLA, with the police with senior prison officials.”
10. UPSOUND (English) cast:
“United we stand- together we stop HIV. Thank You”.
11. Pan left, cast to attendants
2. Pan right, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General and Director of the HIV Unit watching to cast
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Boniface Mono, Trainer at SPLA:
“The issue of the discrimination, the issue of lack of knowledge, the issue of lack of access sometimes in other areas. In South Sudan some people are displaced – people they don’t have the access for the ARVs – so I feel that empathy towards them – but I also have that hope for them that with the knowledge they will get - with the provision of the ARVs and with our collective efforts, and especially the support group and especially the government – we still have that hope that they will have a future and they will live a positive life.”
4. Med shot, classroom session
5. Close up, SPLA sign on shoulder
6. Tilt up, Boniface Mono listening
7. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Eugene Owusu, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General in South Sudan:
“As we really embark on this journey, we are hoping that the guns will fall silent to enable us to achieve the noble objective that certainly we have set ourselves. We need to end stigma, face by those infected and affected by HIV, and we need to stop sexual violence perpetrated against women and girls, which only fuel the spread of HIV AIDS.”
8. Med shot, Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) senior commanders
9. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Eugene Owusu, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General in South Sudan:
“Again, the evidence we do have in South Sudan is that uniformed forces have an infection rate, two to five times higher that civilians, and that is why it is absolutely important that we strengthen our partnership with the SPLA, with the police with senior prison officials.”
10. UPSOUND (English) cast:
“United we stand- together we stop HIV. Thank You”.
11. Pan left, cast to attendants
STORYLINE
The United Nation Mission in South Sudan in collaboration with the ministry of health has graduated thirty HIV and AIDS Counselors to help in the fight against the spread of HIV and its stigma.
The 18 days training on Voluntary Confidential Counselling and Testing of HIV brought participants from UNMISS Level II Hospital, SPLA HIV and AIDS Unit and the Ministry of Health.
The training was conducted under the theme: “Being HIV Positive in NOT a Death sentence.”
As part of the training, counselors put together a role play aimed at explaining what HIV does to one’s body.
The thundering voice of a confident Boniface Mono from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army’s (SPLA’s) training department, echoes across a balcony, where he and a cast of other HIV AIDS counselors are showcasing their role play which depicts how HIV attacks one’s body and how one can fight against the virus when infected.
Just as this vivid play which is part of the graduation program - has its audience glued to every word and action – so is the empathy that Boniface Mono highlights for those suffering from the dreaded scourge.
He expressed his empathy for those who are infected with HIV. He said, “The issue of the discrimination, the issue of lack of knowledge, the issue of lack of access sometimes in other areas.
In South Sudan some people are displaced – people they don’t have the access for the ARVs – so I feel that empathy towards them – but I also have that hope for them that with the knowledge they will get - with the provision of the ARVs and with our collective efforts, and especially the support group and especially the government – we still have that hope that they will have a future and they will live a positive life.”
Boniface’s participation and eight others from South Sudan’s uniformed services is important because according to statistics available from the Ministry of Health and the South Sudan AIDS Commission Uniformed services suffer the highest rate on infections in the country.
Addressing grandaunts Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General, Eugene Owusu called on the guns to fall silent saying there is a need to stop sexual violence perpetrated against women and girls, which only fuel the spread of HIV AIDS.
He said, “Again, the evidence we do have in South Sudan is that uniformed forces have an infection rate, two to five times higher that civilians, and that is why it is absolutely important that we strengthen our partnership with the SPLA, with the police with senior prison officials.”
According to 2014 estimates, South Sudan - with a national prevalence rate of 2.6% - has an estimated 190,000 people currently with AIDS, and new infections of 18,000 per year with about 13,000 AIDS-related deaths.
The 18 days training on Voluntary Confidential Counselling and Testing of HIV brought participants from UNMISS Level II Hospital, SPLA HIV and AIDS Unit and the Ministry of Health.
The training was conducted under the theme: “Being HIV Positive in NOT a Death sentence.”
As part of the training, counselors put together a role play aimed at explaining what HIV does to one’s body.
The thundering voice of a confident Boniface Mono from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army’s (SPLA’s) training department, echoes across a balcony, where he and a cast of other HIV AIDS counselors are showcasing their role play which depicts how HIV attacks one’s body and how one can fight against the virus when infected.
Just as this vivid play which is part of the graduation program - has its audience glued to every word and action – so is the empathy that Boniface Mono highlights for those suffering from the dreaded scourge.
He expressed his empathy for those who are infected with HIV. He said, “The issue of the discrimination, the issue of lack of knowledge, the issue of lack of access sometimes in other areas.
In South Sudan some people are displaced – people they don’t have the access for the ARVs – so I feel that empathy towards them – but I also have that hope for them that with the knowledge they will get - with the provision of the ARVs and with our collective efforts, and especially the support group and especially the government – we still have that hope that they will have a future and they will live a positive life.”
Boniface’s participation and eight others from South Sudan’s uniformed services is important because according to statistics available from the Ministry of Health and the South Sudan AIDS Commission Uniformed services suffer the highest rate on infections in the country.
Addressing grandaunts Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General, Eugene Owusu called on the guns to fall silent saying there is a need to stop sexual violence perpetrated against women and girls, which only fuel the spread of HIV AIDS.
He said, “Again, the evidence we do have in South Sudan is that uniformed forces have an infection rate, two to five times higher that civilians, and that is why it is absolutely important that we strengthen our partnership with the SPLA, with the police with senior prison officials.”
According to 2014 estimates, South Sudan - with a national prevalence rate of 2.6% - has an estimated 190,000 people currently with AIDS, and new infections of 18,000 per year with about 13,000 AIDS-related deaths.
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