Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2009 - Ep 1 Highlights pt 3

In the final story we get to find out more about how teenage mothers can make use of Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) services in order to help protect their unborn child from HIV infection. We join community journalist Wendy Khumalo on a visit to Mphophomeni in KwaZulu Natal where we meet an HIV positive teenage mother, Nosipho Hlophe. We listen to how she successfully took part in PMTCT, as well as the challenges she faces as teenage mother caring for a child. The important role of support groups is also revealed during a visit to the local support group where the reasons for high teenage pregnancy rates are discussed. The areas HIV prevalence is incredibly high at an estimated 41% .

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Want to know what the effects of poverty on AIDS in Africa is? Watch this video. It explains more eloquently than 1 000 academic papers why much vaunted behaviour change communications does not work. Until we link communicatons to a programme for social change we will not be able to address the vulnerability like the brave people in this video to HIV.

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