VIETNAM: AMERICAN ACTIVIST STARTS 18-MONTH WALK FOR AIDS AWARENESS.

Record ID: 983640

  • Title: VIETNAM: AMERICAN ACTIVIST STARTS 18-MONTH WALK FOR AIDS AWARENESS.
  • Date: 4th April 1999
  • Summary: HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM (RECENT) (RTV) 1. SV: VIETNAMESE DRUG ADDICTS SING AIDS AWARENESS LYRICS 0.06 2. SV: YOUNG ADDICTS WITH WORD "SIDA" (FRENCH WORD FOR AIDS) ON THEIR BACKS 0.13 3. CU: CLOSEUP OF AIDS PATIENT IN BINH TRIEU HOSPITAL FOR DRUG ADDICTS WITH AIDS 0.18 4. GV: WIDESHOT OF AIDS PATIENT TIED TO BED IN HOSPITAL WARD 0.21 5. GV/CU: OTHER AIDS PATIENTS (2 SHOTS) 0.27 7. MV/SCU: YOUNG ADDICTS PERFORMING AIDS AWARENESS LYRICS AT DRUG REHABILITATION CENTRE AT HOSPITAL (2 SHOTS) 0.37 8. GV: OTHER YOUNG ADDICTS WATCHING 0.41 9. MCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Vietnamese) TRUONG NGOC THAI TRAN, 25, DRUG ADDICT "I think young people listen to AIDS awareness campaigns but I don't think they have a deep understanding. They don't know how serious the dangers of catching AIDS are." 1.00 10. LV: WIDESHOT OF FLOCK OF DUCKS IN RURAL COUNTRYSIDE SOUTH OF CITY 1.04 11. CU: CLOSEUP OF DUCKS ON WATER 1.07 12. GV: WOMEN HARVESTING RICE IN PADDY FIELDS 1.11 13. GV: AMERICAN AIDS ACTIVIST, DR JOHN CHITTICK WALKING THROUGH PADDY FIELDS WITH VIETNAMESE INTERPRETER 1.16 14. GV/LV: CHITTICK SPEAKING TO WOMAN IN FIELDS (2 SHOTS) 1.24 15. GV: CHITTICK WALKING ALONG TRACK 1.28 16. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHITTICK "I'd say that the figures from the Vietnamese government of 80,000 to 100,000 people with HIV/AIDS is the most conservative that could be used. I think the figure could be much, much higher. But I don't want to be alarmist, it's not my position to be here to say it's much greater but I do know it's greater. Young people are never counted in these estimates." 1.51 17. MV: WOMAN AND CHILDREN WATCHING CHITTICK FROM BARK HOUSE 1.56 18. GV: CHITTICK AND HIS INTERPRETER WALK THROUGH MARKETPLACE 2.01 19. SCU: CHITTICK SPEAKING TO WOMEN WITH CHILDREN (2 SHOTS) 2.14 20. MV/PAN: CHITTICK WALKS THROUGH MARKET / PEOPLE LAUGHING / WOMAN GESTURES THAT CHITTICK IS FAT (2 SHOTS) 2.39 21. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHITTICK "I think if people see an older guy, a fat guy, an American walking around whose not Arnold Schwarzenegger, not physically fit, maybe they understand that I'm more serious, I'm very serious about this message, that if I'm willing to make a small sacrifice on my part, they understand this is for a serious reason." 2.59 22. GV: EXTERIOR DRUG REHABILITATION CENTRE AT BINH TRIEU HOSPITAL 3.02 23. GV/MV/TV: DRUG ADDICTS DOING THEIR MORNING EXERCISES (5 SHOTS) 3.22 24. SV: DOCTOR NGUYEN VAN NGAI IN AIDS WARD OF BINH TRIEU HOSPITAL 3.26 25. CU: CLOSEUP OF AIDS PATIENT / INTRAVENOUS DRIP / PATIENT (3 SHOTS) 3.38 26. MV: NGAI WITH AIDS PATIENTS 3.43 27. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (Vietnamese) NGAI, DIRECTOR BINH TRIEU HOSPITAL "Young people are changing their method of drug use from smoking to intravenous use and this puts them at higher risk of catching AIDS. That's why the average HIV/AIDS carrier is getting younger." 4.00 28. MV|: AIDS PATIENT NONG HIEU KHUONG, (FORTY TWO), FORMER DELIVERY MAN 4.07 29. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (Vietnamese) KHUONG "I tell them about my own experience. I'm suffering fever and diarrhoea, I'm more dead than alive. Look at me so you can understand and try to protect yourself." 4.21 30. GV: CHILDREN IN POOR PART OF HO CHI MINH CITY COME TO HEAR AIDS TALK 4.25 31. MCU: CHILDREN READING AIDS AWARENESS PAMPHLETS 4.29 32. MCU: DO KIM SON, 43, FIRST AIDS PATIENT TO GO PUBLIC IN VIETNAM 4.34 33. SV: SON EXPLAINING PHOTO BOARD IN HIS OFFICE 4.41 34. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (Vietnamese) SON "I faced many difficulties when I made that decision (to go public) especially within my own family because they were afraid of being discriminated against or discarded by our friends." 4.55 35. MV/PAN/CU/SV: WORKERS AT MERUFA CONDOM FACTORY (4 SHOTS) 5.13 36. GV/MV: TRAFFIC ON CITY STREETS AT NIGHT / PROSTITUTES ON MOTORCYCLES / NIGHT CLUBS (5 SHOTS) 5.41 37. GV/MV: DRUG ABUSE AND PREVENTION CENTRE, BINH TRIEU HOSPITAL THIRTY SEVEN; YOUNG DRUG ADDICTS (3 SHOTS) 5.56 38. CU/MV: AIDS PATIENT IN LAST STAGES OF DISEASE (2 SHOTS) 6.10 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: HO CHI MINH CITY AND VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SOUTHERN VIETNAM
  • Country: Vietnam
  • Reuters ID: LVA8TADXN4TL18DITHV2ITA50SMG
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