HIV/Aids
On All things Considered this week, (Sunday 1 July at 8:30am, repeated Wednesday 4 July at 6:30pm) Roy Jenkins talks to the Welsh novelist, journalist and scriptwriter Rhidian Brook about his amazing nine-month journey to eleven countries with his wife and two young children.
It may sound like the holiday of a lifetime, albeit a pretty exhausting one, but their destinations were not chosen for their shimmering beaches or glamorous nightlife, but because they are key centres in the worldwide HIV/Aids pandemic.
They met sex workers in Kenya, victims of rape in Rwanda, families headed by children in Soweto, children of prostitutes in India and farmers who sold their blood for money in China.>
This rather unlikely family holiday was in fact taken at the request of the Salvation Army to report on its work in response to the HIV/Aids crisis. The book of the journey, More than Eyes Can See (Marion Boyars Publishers, ISBN: 0-7145-3142-1, is published this week - and despite its grim subject, it's a book full of hope.
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