“C is for Life” is a script for a short HIV prevention film targeting Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) in Thailand where the prevalence of HIV has reached 30% amongst MSM in recent years in some parts of the country. This script was originally written mid 2007 and only a few cosmetic changes have been made to this version.
Then, I had in mind something that would look like a movie trailer and that could be used online by website targeting MSM. The feature had to be relatively short …

After the gay version it was only fair to also show the straight one!

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A french TV ad promoting condoms.

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Bangkok World AIDS Day 2006 © peripheries

According to the Bangkok Post, Thailand Deputy Public Health Minister Manit Nopamornbode said that “about 11,700 people were expected to become new [HIV/AIDS] sufferers”.
Amongst these new sufferers, Manit identified “women who will get HIV from their lovers [...] gay men who have unprotected sex [..] men who get HIV from sex workers [and] will infect their wives, intravenous drug users, those having casual sex and prostitutes”
Children excluded, that is pretty much everybody.
Depending on the sources, there are between 516,000 t0 610,000 people living with …

In a lengthy but rather well constructed and documented article published online in The East African, Curtis Abraham steers the charge against UNAIDS “for perpetuating the myth of condom effectiveness in Africa in the face of all evidence.”
Abraham rightly identifies that in a country like Uganda, the reduction in HIV incidence was not the result of condom-only prevention interventions (thanks to Helen Epstein for casting some light on the subject in her book “The Invisible Cure”) but was owning to behaviour changes and in particular partner-reduction campaigns such as that …