Breaking the wall of silence: Coming face to face with AIDS
For some people, being ‘Positive’ is the beginning of a life full of desolation. As government, society and media close the doors of mercy in the face of people living with HIV. Taking slow and ineffective measures towards AIDS awareness Egypt turned into one of the fastest growing HIV epidemics. The call for taking effective stands is highly required and the awareness towards AIDS is missing big time. We’re not just talking about general awareness towards HIV we’re talking about finding the right way to communicate with people living with HIV without being in the dark.
There is a Chinese proverb and curse that says “May you live in interesting times” and I always say that whoever lived in 2011 could happily die fulfilled with interesting moments. Global revolutions, rumors of Armageddon, regimes toppled, world leaders brutally killed and screen legends passing away one after the other. A couple of weeks ago, interesting incidents got a new twist and #NudePhotoRevolutionary was trending on Twitter.
Asmaa is the story of a middle-aged Egyptian woman who lives with her father and only daughter in a poor Cairo district. Struck by poverty and the pressure of raising a teenage daughter in Cairo’s tough reality, are not her only worries, for we learn that she is HIV positive, which is her dark secret. Stigmatized by her disease she wanders around helplessly to find herself at a crossroad of outing herself and facing the harsh Egyptian society or quietly numbing her pain away for she has a gall bladder infection that requires immediate surgery.
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