Listened to a great documentary on Spotlight tonight. (Spotlight is basically a prime-time version of CBC Radio Overnight, but focused more on documentaries.)
     The documentary focused on Thembi: a 19-year-old woman from the African township of Khayelitsha who is HIV negative. The documentary producers gave her a tape recorder, some basic recording training, and sent her on her way.

For more than a year, Thembi captured the small moments of her life that help tell a larger story: her first conversation with her mother about AIDS; a visit to the township clinic to apply for life-saving drugs; facing neighbors and friends as they slowly learn her status; a moment of quiet, late-night dancing at home with her boyfriend.

It’s well worth a listen at The AIDS Diary Radio project. The audio is licenced under the Creative Commons and produced by the crew at Radio Diaries in the U.S.
     CBC is the host broadcaster for the XVI International AIDS Conference happening this week in Toronto.
     An interesting side note about the conference: CBC/Radio-Canada’s Canadian Institute for Training in Public Broadcasting just wrapped up a two-and-a-half day briefing for about 50 reporters. Six CBC/Radio-Canada experts in health journalism provided the training and a special session on ethics.

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