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Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2006 Episode 22 - Books and media

Today we looked at the media messages around HIV/AIDS on Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2006. Positive messages in books, magazines, TV and radio programmes can change behaviour and inform audience effectively. Media messages can also have negative effects, creating poor stereotypes. We need to promote openness and successful role models for people living with HIV. We talk to Adam Levin author of AIDSafari, we are joined by members of loveLife and Health-e and we also spoke to some of our viewers about what they would like to see happen on Siyayinqoba Beat It!

16th Int. AIDS Conference - Mark Heywood's "Price of Inaction" Speech

On this tape covering the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto Mark Heywood tells a tale of two countries: China and South Africa and looks at what the cost of a lack of leadership around HIV/AIDS meant in South Africa and what a lack of political leadership can mean in China in the next few years.The tape also covers the protests at the infamous South African government's stand which displayed beetroot, garlic and lemons more prominently than ARVs.

16th Int. AIDS Conference - Stephen Lewis

On this source tape covering the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto we covered Stephen Lewis' closing address to the conference. Lewis, the Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa at the time, had this to say about the South African government in his address: "South Africa is the unkindest one of all, it is the only country in Africa amongst all the countries I have traversed in the last 5 years whose government is still obtuse, dilatory and negligent about rolling out treatment. This is the only country in Africa whose government continues to propound theories more worthy of a lunatic fringe than of a concerned and compassionate state."