Temwa have just received the funding to produce another HIV & AIDS education film with previous partners, Purple Field Productions (PFP). This new film is going to be aimed at 5 - 12 year olds and will be nationally distributed throughout Malawi so as to make the biggest impact.

The new film will be produced in collaboration with PFP and Malawi based Youth Net & Counselling (YONECO), a non-political, non-profit NGO established to address the social injustice and reproductive health issues affecting the youth, women and children of Malawi.

The film is based on a new government program called ‘protecting the next generation' which is aimed at 5 to 12 year olds, and will endeavour to teach them ways to protect themselves from contracting HIV in the future. In Malawi, there is just a one-per-cent prevalence rate of HIV in children in this age group, leading it to be described as the ‘window of hope'.

Malawi has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in Sub-Saharan Africa with an estimated 14.2 per cent of the adult population infected. Research shows a high incidence of HIV amongst 0 to 4 year olds due to mother-to-child transmission. Sadly, few of these children live beyond the age of 5 years and so the number of cases drops dramatically between the ages of 5 and 14. It then rises again at the age at which young people become sexually active. If these children can be taught how to protect themselves against HIV & AIDS before they reach puberty, the result could be a dramatic overall reduction in the prevalence of the disease - and could even see the epidemic being contained.

We are overjoyed to be working with PFP on another film project in Malawi and we are thrilled to be working with YONECO for the first time. The first half of the PFP film crew arrived in Malawi at the end of June.

Elspeth from PFP filming Temwa's last HIV & AIDS education film

A  Temwa community HIV & AIDS video session

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