a community gathers to watch a video on the impact of HIV on a local family and meet the star.
special section on HIV
Early on Friday evening in March at Kona children, one of many villages nestled in the hills surrounding the city Goroka, some 75 people cram into a floored mud hut with a corrugated iron roof and excitedly wait for the show begins. This village cinema, or haus piksa in the local pidgin, a generator that provides electricity a rarity here in Eastern Highlands province of the country and, of course, a screen, which in this case is an old television set. The only courtroom rule is scanned by the video tonight that no one leaves when the generator cuts out, the candles are lit, and someone has to make a trip to town for more fuel.
This is not Rambo or a rugby match, both of which are very popular in this country known by the shorthand PNG. Smooth video, a University of Goroka production called One More Chance , is part of an innovative campaign to prevent the spread of HIV, which hit some hard PNG communities (see main article). It tells the story of Siparo Bangkoma, a local man whose complicated family life was hit by HIV. Siparo became seriously ill virus but he hid his infection to his two wives until the second wife became weak itself and confronted him. When he confessed, the sick woman said the other. The two women discovered they too had become infected. Rage has finally given way to acceptance, and the two mothers decided they would raise their children together, but agreed that Siparo would no longer have a physical relationship with the second wife.
a crowd fills the haus piksa to watch video of HIV / AIDS.
PHOTO: MALCOLM LINTON
Siparo is the projection and speaks to the crowd when the video ends. "You can get HIV and you can live with it," he announced. "I am happy because I can stand before you and speak out. In my country, many people feel ashamed. I am not ashamed. God gave me one more chance. Make sure your children are educated. This is a true story. It's the story of my life. You must change your attitude and thinking, "he said.
"This is a way to make HIV prevention is really true to PNG," said Angela Kelly-Hanku, Australian social anthropologist who studies HIV / AIDS with the PNG Institute of Medical Research in Goroka, where she lives, and the University of New South Wales in Sydney. After the screening, Kelly-Hanku shows a bottle of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs). "When you take ARVs, it is like putting a gate around your garden," says Kelly-Hanku. "Now the pigs can not go inside."
Students filmmakers who product one more Chance made four videos on HIV / AIDS as part of a project called Komuniti Tok Piksa. They target rural communities, which are missed by media campaigns and often have low levels of literacy, teaching people how HIV is spread, the importance of testing, and that rescue treatments exist. the stories are told in pidgin.
Verena Thomas, who leads the project, said 110 projections so far have all been well attended Thomas said. "the people on the screen are the heroes, whether or Siparos Rambo".
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