- Title: THAILAND: ACTORESS ASHLEY JUDD VISITS CONDOM FACTORY TO PROMOTE AIDS EDUCATION
- Date: 10th July 2004
- Summary: (W5) CHON BURI, THAILAND (JULY 10, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV ACTRESS ASHLEY JUDD AND ENTOURAGE WALKING THROUGH THAI NIPPON CONDOM FACTORY 0.10 2. WIDE OF JUDD LOOKING ON AS CONDOMS ARE TESTED ON MACHINE 0.13 3. VARIOUS OF WOMAN WORKING IN FACTORY 0.21 4. SCU JUDD LOOKING ON 0.25 5. CLOSE OF WOMAN WORKING IN FACTORY/ CONDOMS ON MACHINERY 0.28 6. VARIOUS OF JUDD WALKING THROUGH FACTORY 0.34 7. CLOSE OF WOMAN WORKING AT MACHINE 0.38 8. SLV JUDD LOOKING AT WOMEN WORKING 0.43 9. WIDE OF WOMEN SORTING CONDOMS 0.47 10. CLOSE OF CONDOMS BEING SORTED 0.50 11. VARIOUS OF WOMEN SORTING CONDOMS 0.59 12. SLV JUDD WALKING THROUGH FACTORY 1.07 13. CLOSE OF MACHINERY TESTING CONDOMS 1.11 14. SMV JUDD SITTING WITH WORKERS 1.17 15. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTRESS, ASHLEY JUDD SAYING: "This is the worst pandemic in the history of the human race. It is an emergency and a crisis, it is not a cause, and the western world needs to realise that we are all interconnected, we are all interdependent, and do something to help the people at risk in developing and post-conflict countries." 1.37 16. WIDE OF MEDIA LOOKING ON 1.42 17. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) JUDD SAYING: "We have to love others as we love ourselves and so what we make available to ourselves we have to make available to others, whether it's awareness, whether it's education, whether it's medicine." 1.51 18. WIDE OF MEDIA 1.55 19. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) JUDD SAYING: "I think that because I've been to Cambodia, and just arrived in Thailand last night, the more accurate response from me would be I am absolutely devastated by what I saw in Cambodia, with regard to how we sat around and basically did nothing while the Khmer Rouge decimated that entire country and its people. It was the most shocking, appalling, disturbing thing I have ever seen in my entire life." 2.22 20. VARIOUS OF ASHLEY WATCHING PRESENTATION ON CONDOM PRODUCTION 2.40 21. SLV ASHLEY LEAVING FACTORY 2.47 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: CHON BURI, THAILAND
- Country: Thailand
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- Story Text: Hollywood actress Ashley Judd visits a condom
factory in Thailand to promote AIDS awareness.
U.S. movie star Ashley Judd visited a Thai condom
factory on Saturday (July 10), kicking off a week-long AIDS
awareness tour in the southeast Asian country.
The star of "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood"
will spend a week visiting local clinics and schools to
speak with children about the threat of contracting HIV, in
her role as ambassador for HIV awareness charity Youth AIDS.
Her visit is timed to coincide with this week's
international AIDS conference being hosted in Bangkok.
36-year-old Judd said she had high hopes for the
conference, joking that she would accept nothing less than
'a revolution' to come out of it.
"This is the worst pandemic in the history of the human
race. It is an emergency and a crisis, it is not a cause,
and the western world needs to realise that we are all
interconnected, we are all interdependent, and do something
to help the people at risk in developing and post-conflict
countries," she said.
She said that it was vital to spread a "safe sex"
message to the world's youth.
Of the approximately 40 million people infected with
HIV world-wide, nearly 12 million are between the ages of
15 and 24.
But she also emphasised the need for developed countries to make
re
sources and knowledge freely available
to those less fortunate.
"We have to love others as we love ourselves and so
what we make available to ourselves we have to make
available to others, whether it's awareness, whether it's
education, whether it's medicine," she said.
When asked what she thought of the region, Judd said
she had been moved by her recent trip to Cambodia, the
worst AIDS-affected country in Asia, with an estimated
infection rate of 2.6 percent.
She said she was shocked by the country's tragic past
after stopping off at the genocide museum at the notorious
Tuol Sleng interrogation centre, where thousands of men,
women and children were tortured by Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist
henchmen before being executed in the "Killing Fields".
"I think that because I've been to Cambodia, and just
arrived in Thailand last night, the more accurate response
from me would be I am absolutely devastated by what I saw
in Cambodia, with regard to how we sat around and basically
did nothing while the Khmer Rouge decimated that entire
country and its people. It was the most shocking,
appalling, disturbing thing I have ever seen in my entire
life," she said.
About 600,000 people are living with HIV/AIDS in
Thailand.
Youth AIDS funds a series of HIV prevention programmes
in the country, including the marketing of its own brand of
condom aimed at teens.
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