Vida Positiva / Positive Living (youth documentary on AIDS in Mozambique)

This video was made by Malgorzata Malak who participated in a 3-month internship in a local Mozambican organisation called Kindlimuka from August – November 2008. Her sending organisation was GLEN.

Together with her partner, Verena Allinger, Malgorzata made a documentary about the HIV/AIDS issue in Mozambique. The film is called "Vida Positiva" and is an outline of the situation there, including reasons for the spread of HIV/AIDS, national prevention strategies, projects run by NGOs, ways of treating the disease, and personal stories of HIV-positive people and their relatives.

Here are some of the questions answered in the documentary:

- Why has HIV spread so much in Mozambique, reaching the level of 16% of the population?
- How do people (especially organizations, government, doctors, healers) react?
- Is the African potato a healing method?
- How does an HIV-positive person feel?
- What are his/her dreams?
- How should we talk to children at school about HIV and sex?

(description and video taken from the multimedia section of http://www.actalive.org)