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Living with Aids, 52 minutes, 2005 (Ref: 473) |
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Sorious Samura works
as an orderly in hospital in Zambia, where the
majority of the patients are HIV positive.
Confronted daily with death, he describes his
workplace as being like a frontline in a war zone.
The staff work under horrendous conditions where
protective gloves are a luxury and shrouds for the
dead are stained with the blood of previous corpses.
Samura exposes the untold story of AIDS - how
poverty and the complex nature of African culture
and sexuality are hampering efforts to eradicate
this horrifying disease. He meets characters like
Joshua and Lawson who continue to practice
unprotected sex despite their HIV positive status,
and Precious and Nancy, AIDS orphans who fend for
themselves in a world where sex "flesh to flesh"
pays well and offers an easy short term solution.
Samura also meets heroines such as Bitonda, who at
16 is in sole charge of her dying 14 year old
brother, an AIDS orphaned cousin as well as her own
child. After one month, Samura is left with the
realisation that for the war against HIV in Africa
to be won, poverty, ignorance and African sexual
attitudes have to be tackled head on. |
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| More Stories
from the Sorious Samura Collection |
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How to Make a Difference in Africa,
Ref: 684 |
Living with Corruption,
Ref: 628 |
Blood on the Stone,
Ref: 533 |
Return to Freetown,
Ref: 512 |
Cry Freetown,
Ref: 511 |
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Exodus,
Ref: 504 |
Living with Hunger,
Ref: 503 |
Living with Refugees,
Ref: 502 |
Living with Illegals,
Ref: 478 |
Living with Aids,
Ref: 473 | |
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