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“I know that everyday I’m alive, HIV affects me”
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Posted April 14, 2008 at 2:50 PM
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More than 25 years after the first HIV diagnosis, an entire generation has grown up never knowing a time without AIDS. Produced by MTV, in partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation, Think HIV: This Is Me - and the bonus programs included below - can be used to educate and motivate discussion about HIV/AIDS. To encourage learning and discussion, sample discussion questions are also provided below.
THINK HIV: THIS IS ME
Think HIV: This Is Me (30 minutes) is a user-generated documentary, comprised entirely of footage filmed by young people both infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Part memorial, part testimony, these short vignettes paint a raw, intimate, and informative portrait of the epidemic’s impact on these young people’s lives and captures what it’s like to be young and HIV-positive in America today.
Chapter 1: 'What If I Told You I Had HIV?'
Chapter 2: 'Don't Classify Me. I'm A Person.'
Chapter 3: Latasha Gets Tested: 'This Is Real'
Chapter 4: HIV Negative? Stay That Way
Chapter 5: A Daily Fight, A Hopeful Future
ALIVE AT 25
Alive at 25 “Vlogs” – a selection of five short video blogs submitted by young people around the country explaining how they understand and define HIV/AIDS according to their own lives. All vlogs are also available at www.itsyoursexlife.com.
Name: Jessica
Age: 23
Location: Washington, DC
Name: Kris
Age: 19
Location: Chugiak, Alaska
Name: Kelsey
Age: 17
Location: Hewitt, Texas
Name: Joyce
Age: 20
Location: Hampton, Virginia
Name: Joseph
Age: 24
Location: Johnson City, Tennessee
MARVELYN’S PERSONAL TESTIMONIAL
Personal Testimonial PSAs – a series of seven public service announcements featuring Marvelyn Brown, a young African-American woman diagnosed with HIV at the age of 19. In this poignant series - included in this package as one continuous feature - Marvelyn discusses her personal journey as a young woman living with HIV in an intimate and engaging face-to-camera testimonial.
RESOURCES
Get more information about HIV/AIDS, protection, testing and and tips on how to talk with your partner here:
HIV/AIDS 101
Condom Cues
Getting tested for HIV
How to talk about it
Find a testing center near you
TAKING IT FURTHER
To encourage learning and discussion, sample discussion questions are provided below to help guide a conversation about Think HIV: This Is Me and the complimentary bonus programming. Additional tools to guide a conversation about this program can be found at http://www.mtv.com/partners/cic.
Discussion Questions
1. What specific challenges do HIV-positive young people face?
2. Was there anything you saw in the video that was different than what you expected?
3. Were people treated differently in the video when others realized they were HIV positive? Is how they were treated right?
4. How did being treated differently make the people in the video feel?
5. Why do you think that people would treat people with HIV like this? What is it about HIV that causes people to be treated differently?
6. What does it mean to you to have grown up never knowing a world without HIV/AIDS?
7. About half of new HIV infections worldwide are among youth under age 25. What does that statistic mean to you and what can you do to help change it?
8. What does the HIV/AIDS epidemic mean to you, your friends/family, and the community around you?
9. What is unique about the epidemic in your community?
To find an HIV testing center near you, text your Zip Code to KNOWIT or call 1-877-777-IYSL.
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