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Background to the film 122,000 teachers in sub-Saharan Africa are estimated to be living with HIV, most of whom do not know their status. Stigma remains their greatest challenge. In 2007, a network of journalists compiled a book entitled Courage and Hope, telling the first-hand stories of African teachers who are HIV positive and living healthy, active lives. The book describes the experiences of 12 teachers from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania Mainland, Zambia and Zanzibar. In this DVD, we hear the voices of four Kenyan teachers. Courage & Hope is the remarkable story of four teachers living positively with HIV. It is an insight into the lives of ordinary, courageous people. We hear, in their own voices, how they discovered their HIV status and how this has affected their lives with their families, their schools and their communities. Each teacher tells a unique story of extraordinary courage and hope. About the Partnership for Child Development Academic excellence, technical expertise and high level networks: a unique partnership for child development. The Partnership for Child Development (PCD) consists of a global consortium of civil society organizations, academic institutions and technical experts working in school health and nutrition, with a Coordinating Centre based at Imperial College London. PCD works across the health and education sectors to support the achievement of Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals by assisting governments to develop national school health and nutrition programmes that improve the education, health, nutrition and psychosocial status of children and teachers in low and middle income countries around the world. |
The film Courage and Hope will be launched at the International AIDS Conference 2008 in Mexico and can be viewed at the UNAIDS booth, where free copies of the DVD will also be available.
Copies of the DVD and the book can also be obtained from the Partnership for Child Development (please contact pcd@imperial.ac.uk; Tel: +44 20 75943262). A broadcast version of the film is available from Baney Media (please contact daphne@baneymedia.com).
About Baney Media
Baney Media is a film and television production company that makes documentary films of general interest for networks such as National Geographic Channel, Discovery, PBS, the History Channel, HGTV and CourtTV. But Baney Media also specializes in films about international aid and development: films such as Window of Hope, One Childhood and Chad and Darfur: Displaced Spirits.
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