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This program is an episode in a series in which children propose, research and come up with their own ideas, thoughts and wishes to produce a real program. This special episode is a drama produced by a classmate of a girl who died of AIDS, and all the actors and actresses are students themselves. The children present a very powerful drama which illustrates how HIV/AIDS can be transmitted to children through promiscuous sexual behavior, cutting instruments used by traditional birth attendants and traditional surgeons who practice female genital mutilation as a rite of passage.
Fourteen year old Jeri is counseled by her mother to go through female circumcision in preparation for her role as a good wife and mother. Soon after, Jeri begins to behave as an adult, including going out with boys, to prove her new status. Jeri gets pregnant and drops out of school and her baby succumbs to AIDS and Jeri is hospitalized.
How did Jeri get the virus - from the birth attendant, the surgeon or the men and boys she has been going with? Will Jeri live with the virus and for how long? The program does not answer to these questions but leaves them open for discussion among viewers. |
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