The name is Eddie Michael jr. Youre welcome to the program. The theme for this . Well, aids day is ending the h. L. V. Aids epidemic resilience and impact. Now while theres been great progress in tackling the virus and reasons, yes, the global aids hiv epidemic is far from over, especially in africa. South africa is a country where one in 5 people are living with the virus. Our correspondents, reports from cape town, you know, almost 2 decades. The Nonprofit Organization hope has been an important point of contact for those living with hiv. Like here in the cape town township of delft. To 2 years ago, luis morris worked in a textile factory, but then her life took a difficult to, an accident, left her unable to work out a whole problems followed. And then she became infected with hiv. But my family didnt want to have anything to do with me after my h. I. V. Diagnosis. They cut off contact. And even now if my neighbors knew that i have a chevy, they would only say hi from a distance. They wouldnt invite me to their homes. It means i also keep my distance is not easy. Being a hiv positive, you have to somehow accept that people behave in a certain way towards you. I find it sad when dr is on rainy could and is used to hearing similar stories. At least half of the community has a Family Member that somebody that they know thats actually positive. But its but its so common here, but people dont speak about it. They people are not open about it, they might speak to us about it and then not speak to the Service Providers about it, but they will, they finitely not speak. They. Theyre not open about the status. They worried about discrimination, although stigma still a massive problem in many communities, south africa has made mess of progress in the fight against hiv aids. Over the past years, most people, the vast majority of those living with hiv, know their status and are on medication. And just recently, researchers announced possibly for good news. The preventative drug prep has been available for several years around 90000. South africans protect themselves against h. P. V. Infection by taking a daily tablet. Now a study into a similar preventative drug that needs to only be injected every 8 weeks, has found it to be even more efficient. Women particularly have many challenges with taking a pill a day. Issues of their habits of taking a pill, but also people experience a lot of social pressures. So women are judged as living with hiv. If theyre taking pills that look like antiretrovirals, they may have judgments about their sexual activity. And partners may feel that they are wanting to be unfaithful, so there are many barriers to taking a pill a day. And what the injections were able to do is overcome some of those challenges by being discreet and convenient. Independent researchers also see the injection as an important development, but further research is necessary to find other options to prevent hiv in women. Young women are the hardest hit group in south africa, and do you really lag behind sometimes . You know, so hopefully in capetown also believes the injection could be a great help, but it may not be available for a number of years. In the meantime, more argent issues remain due to the cover dependent make fewer hiv patients are going to kleenex. As a result, the number of new infections, a new born says on the rise, a worrying trend. After all, the hard work to stop the spread of the virus. From on the, our joined from johannesburg by shes a mouse, an archer person of the Treatment Action Campaign. Great to have you on b. W. News, africa. Now, the Treatment Action Campaign has been either forefront of fighting aids for decades. And now virus. How is that affecting life for People Living with hiv in south africa . Because simply because we have seen as destruction of faith, its pushing the in focusing. Also. We have seen a trustee and im moved to fight and you have seen people who are not assisting direction, what i could call it if our city is the way out and i could, but that is has to be so and shared with 10 men and sometimes they would have to do that and mitigation over this then. And sometimes they have to wait a few outside of the realm not i was im fed up with up what should they try to just say i think and thats one of the major one sense that things have been in south africa. Ok. Now i met all these challenges and the reports we had about the new prep treatments. And what full suite is about the game changer that can change maybe you know, based on what that can suck up to. So we have that 2400 or so that is the concern about young people. So we feel that when i ask hiv infection in the country. Ok. Now overall bill theres a softer time making enough progress in terms of a job. The treatment prevention as it went, but im not going to say enough yet because what i would say the number would be no one. So if youre going to have to get 2400. 00, we have left them. If they left any part of a 2nd, young boy, not me. So it means that i was not talking to white people underground. So as much as we have, perhaps we have discussed things which we need to do math. And so i want to show thoughts on this, isnt it fascinating that in less than a year, we almost obvious boxing folk over 19 might best still no sign of one for each of the 8 in decades. Is there any hope for that. 8 you know, thats what lessons have thats not, thats what most people as communities as that was to come up with fuck, they did the question. Well, i just, i think that, that such a question says, i think thats including people who, you know, i follow with my own, make sure that something coming up this intervention coming up. That if we could be like that for a child, i think as much as it sets of what i can well see, thats different up well so cannot afford to fight me to see if we can not be able to can take up the issue of all out as we can, thats why we have seen thrown at us and of a people we would need to be if we can have, if us and thats with us. And i think i was good because i know what im the i dont have to take in the people. I dont have to uphold god and all those things. But this is the position that you have. And thats if youre up with nothing but that i have my own yacht, each and everything with simone getting to by law. Thank you for your time. The u. N. Refugee agency has access 296000 there, which again, refugees in the region. There are concerns of possible food shortage and force the nearly month long war has displeased thousands of people into neighboring countries like africa correspondent traveled to the region and sent us this report. They were lucky after crossing the border from ethiopia to sudan, and her family found refuge in this home. The nearby campus already overcrowded. There they would have had to sleep outside on the ground. And i thank the owner of this house so much because she doesnt know was she doesnt know anything about us. But because we were neighbors across the border, she took us in more than 50 people. She and never forget the moment she realized she and her 9 children had to flee their hometown and to cry we cried, and our children cried with us. They wept in front of us. The shooting started while we were eating and we just had to leave. Even the 6 families live together, that is more than 50 people in one house, among them, a tourist. He and her husband, when the fighting and to get started, they tried to bring the children to safety. When the shooting started, i gave my children to our neighbors who had a car to take them with them. Since then she hasnt heard anything from them because of a Communications Blackout and to get i, she cant call the neighbors or people in her village. My children are always on my mind. Whenever i close my eyes, i see them. The owner of the house is 40 day brahim, its not the 1st time that she has welcomed refugees in her home. In the 960 s. , she house people who fled the war in these people came to us. And although we dont have much money, they are our neighbors, so we had to hurt them. Many residents of this already poor region have again welcome to obtain refugees in their homes. Some of our sales are only others provide food and water. However, the influx of people here has resulted in instant price hikes. Residents tell us vegetables, fruit, meat, and even water has become much more expensive. Still, they try to help as much as they can. For the 2nd time that she had to flee her home, she doesnt want the same for her children. I hope my children will have a better life. Were not become like us. I wish theyd go to school and study, do their jobs, and stay away from politics. Is a really good fairy, dont you . But i am says her guests can stay as long as they need. Thats it for now you can find mall fostoria zone dot com slash africa all and off a spoke on twitter pages. We leave you with some aids activism in south africa, produced by grassroots organizations on to the next time by phenomenon. They say hey, there, im david and this is Climate Change. Happiness increase book for you to get smarter. Birth free, you know, the secret to this classic music, the sound or the story behind the music was before the age of british hot. Beethovens 9th symphony for the world starts to simmer nights on t w. Music from israeli sing. And irans cha, his latest album, which is causing controversy because shes collaboration with a rainy and musicians which hasnt pleased iran. You know, for a jeez, ill be talking to her in a minute. Also coming out today, one to look out for works by british kenyan artist Michael Armitage, can fetch 6 figures songs i dont ship and if you cant visit your local bookstore right now, heres a Coffee Table Book featuring some of the worlds most beautiful bookshops. Iranians are not meant to have prearranged contact with israelis. Nevertheless, there us, char, he is ready. Singer and actress with jewish uranian roots has recorded an album together with musicians from iran. Theyve done it secretly. Swapping files online. Zan which means woman is an album of many contrasts musically and culturally ill be talking to in a minute. But 1st lets find out more about her and her music. Clearest child, he feared for the lives of the iranian also is she collaborated with on her new album sound so they worked in secret and she doesnt use their real names. The project gave her months of sleepless nights, but the israeli actress and singer of persian heritage refuses to let politicians tell her who had enemies on this album is her response from iran to israel in 1070 and china. He was born there in 1978 on her 1st 2 albums she sang in hebrew and iran was a country she was barred from visiting. Yet she grew up between israeli and geranium culture. She moved to los angeles as an actor when she enjoys a successful career. And most recent role was as a mossad spy in an israeli made through a series called terror own. And it said it was in the United States that she began to explore her persian background, discovering and falling in love with iranian pope, from the 1970 s. The albums on which translates as women is the 2nd one, she sings on in farsi. It was partly inspired by videos on social media of women dancing to her sons and their on web public dancing is prohibited women brave enough to take risks. Much like herself. Thrilled to welcome online from tel aviv the artist. He signs for joining us. You said its technically very difficult to understand how to do online, but emotionally much more difficult. Yes. Same challenge because you know, us, israel and iran are both very complex actually. But i dont like the sentence not needing peace because we deal with each other very much. And i love my iranian and so we had everything. We had lots of very, very difficult class for the extent that we cannot speak freely or create an album. And we did it, you know, very a way, but there was this, there was a very challenging line that we got lots of bad messages from our media that were doing something wrong. And we should not do what were doing. We and i was really afraid for the lives of the people on iran can work. But you could you go to a lot of great messages on youtube from iranians. But what about in israel because you are singing in farsi, which is the persian language. How did it go down with you all fans, and you have well established that to go down with your israeli facts. A very good question. First of all, my family, my team, france, thought i clip on los angeles. There are tons of indian c. D. s on the prerevolution music from iran. And i decided to see if i see it. It was, it was a strange land, but in their act, my shows and dance, where there are iranian moves. So its very natural and its natural for me, natural or for the people here, hes there and they love you. Mention you being in los angeles, you are actually an established actress and youre appearing right now in an apple t. V. Series called playing a monster to spawn age. And its not a bizarre, ironic. Its very ironic. Listen. Yeah, ive had it. And myself, we are both very labor and complex characters and we always ask questions. And i think many people recognize me, this legend who are you know, i am already sailing or a sight we cant follow and meet me at your studio. Happy events are and where you for later. This is the end. Thank you because they thought i should be serious. I was already written saying feeling they were very right. Thanks so much for being with us. Good luck with the album there. I was jolly thank here. And the album is a brand of all, all the usual streaming services to a real rising star of the art scene. Now, british kenyan artist Michael Ahmed to judge weaves multiple narratives in his paintings, mixing current and historical events with his personal memories as a child in kenya. Hes now based in london and pop culture. Internet gossip influence his canvases as well. Its a successful combination with some of his works frenching over a 1000000. 00 a man runs off his feet in flames. House car times in his arms his prize. A triumphant look on his face. A fiery creature seems to continue to take his heels. To painting the chicken thief by Michael Armitage, bursts with energy and color. Is it a street scene or an allegory . I mean, it just is what it is. A good cigar. You start in the chick if hes off being followed by this kind of monkey. If hes offered this chick, hes going to look after the comedy just paintings. Show people in turmoil. Sometimes the faces of just splashes of color. Sometimes only a grimace can be made out. Sometimes an individual angry demonstrators. Explosive, extreme state of tony the animal scene in passive. His compositions hinted at europes old masters. Armitage plays with art history, was. The painter was born in nairobi in 1904. His father was british, his mother, a kenyan. He studied art in london, but finds his subject matter in east africa. A whole group is the place that shaped shaped lawyer, larger nation. It shaped the sort of stories that im interested in. And i want to tell its also a place thats massively representatives with the history of art and with the narratives in stories that come from somewhere like like his canvases have holes and stitches and then theyre made of tree bark. Blue go and material that he integrates into his narrative. Armitage discovered the bark off in 2011, and a tourist market in kenya. It comes from uganda where its often used for ceremonial purposes such as funerals. That it could be painting it sun even though this seems like a wound or hearts for the word exorcism, the artist can be borat. The color scheme from ed 2 are many ways painting music. There is a way of kind of equates to very different sunday, sunday happening in the world as material. Any classic brutal convoluted and sometimes i wrongly Michael Armitage doesnt shrink from confronting the viewer with cliche of africa, of wilderness, of the unbridled sexuality of folklore. Images that contained suffering in pain, but also dr. None the less now i love browsing through bookshops something which isnt easy to do because of the pandemic. So heres an alternative to a free drinks book, cold simply bookstore photographs by a friedrichs, that give us a unique insight into a magical world. Loveliest and most interesting book stores. Now theyve been published in a collection every bookstore you enter is ultimately going to have books on shelves. But i wanted to show the shops that distinguish themselves from the rest, either through their selection or their concept and concept. In his adopted city of london, friedrich has captured images of speciality bookshops, such as max brotherhoods founded in 853. 00. Its one of the worlds oldest antiquarian bookseller. The most valuable item currently in stock, to pages from a 670 year old manuscript about the travels of explorer, marco polo the asking price, 200000 euros. The shop window. It is one of the most colorful ones of all. And thats a testament to the shops concept where the books dont appear to be sorted in any particular way. Even though the owner can locate every single book, converse, least some people purposely leave a book behind when they visit the floating bookshop word on the water on londons regent can now, the old barge is a popular motif on instagram. And its also one of hosty friedrichs favorite haunts. His book presents photos of 47 books. And his coauthor tells their stories like the history of the book 100 a bookshop in maastricht, in the netherlands, located in a gothic dominican church, dating from the 13th century bookstore in porto. Portugal is said to have inspired j. K. Rowling while writing her harry parson. Novels shops will always exist simply because books are so important to me like the air that we breathe without books, there would be no civilization post. A friedrich speeches are a hint of books and also took silence. Great, a number of those bookshops definitely go on to do list. As over this edition of arts and culture, i leave you with a bit of christmas cheer in these gloomy to arms like projections in the region of northern italy. The for defining Climate Change in bangladesh has water almost up to their neck. Theyre growing in it. Its been a regional tradition, but is touted as a model for the entire country listening idea, 3000 and 30 minutes on the world to go beyond the obvious to the soul that were all live. As we take on the moral to the, were all about the stories that matter to you and really never get to see the a mouth shut mines. Frankfurt International Gateway to the best kind of road and rail located in the heart of europe. Connected to their own experience, outstanding shopping and dining offers. Trying our Services Guest at frankfurt managed by for this is d. W. 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