"AIDS IN AFRICA:  A Fight For Survival"

ABOUT THE STORY

Senegal, in West Africa, has successfully prevented HIV/AIDS from becoming an epidemic.  From the beginning, Senegal's leaders targeted prevention messages, began screening blood donations and instituted an awareness campaign.  Their efforts are working.  In 2000, less than two percent of the population is HIV positive.

Secretary General, SWAA and West Africa Coordinator for SWAA [society of women against aids in africa]; funded by UNAIDS
Sets up several different situations for training of women to educate other women about AIDS prevention, including booths near factories that distribute female and male condoms; they also sell chewing gum, etc. to help avoid embarassment

Dr. Antoine Mahe

Chief of Service, Institute for Social Hygiene Education programs about STD for sex workers and others

Marie-Jeanne Ndour

mid-wife
Provides care for prostitutes with std’s and hiv

Dr. Ibra Ndoye

STI and AIDS Program Manager
Coordinator, Senegalese National Program for the Fight Against AIDS

“Modou Fall” 
 HIV positive since 1994

Director, SANFAM [USAID funded NGO]
Sponsors and organizes programs in factories to explain AIDS to workers

Maraki Fikre

 25 years old, knows several people with HIV/AIDS and is working to raise awareness at SWAA

Mbaye Maniang Diagne

28 years old, wrote a play called “destiny” based on his experience as a peer counselor advising young people to be tested;  when confronted with the question of whether he had been tested, he said no.  feeling that if he didn’t get tested, he would be a hypocrit, he took the test.  The play chronicles the 10 day waiting period until his test came back, negative in his case.

Emile DalyDiouf
 President, SIDA Service

“Fatou Ndiaye”
HIV positive

Ramatoulaye Dioume 
 USAID Senegal