A two-week workshop on HIV/AIDS for young television producers was concluded in Accra on Friday,18 November, with a call to combat stigma and discrimination against people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.
Dr. Amenyah urged the participants to find out about their status and to welcome relatives living with HIV/AIDS and emphasised that compassion and understanding contribute to a long life and reassure the patient that families will not be neglectful.
Charles Pongo, training coordinator and lead trainer is very satisfied with the workshop. The workshop has been very useful. The dynamics between the participants, who came from various television backgrounds, was very good, he said. They all had an excellent pre-production session which allowed them to interact openly and confidently when the time came for interviews. Fifteen scripts have been written, evaluated and finalized and the two short films which were produced during the course of the training have been screened at the closing.
Naa Abeley Addey and Owen Fred from Ghana said, It is of imperative importance for the African media to . . . use this [medium] to change even what is considered impossible more importantly in the instance of stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS, said Ana Nicodemus, a participant from Namibia.
The participants were encouraged by Karl Ampah, UNESCO Accra, to closely investigate the situation of orphans and other vulnerable children in relation to HIV and AIDS.
The workshop was organised as part of UNESCOs programme Young TV Producers Global Network on HIV and AIDS in collaboration with the Ghana National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI). It brought together 15 young television producers from Ghana, The Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, Nigeria, and Swaziland.
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