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04 July 2009
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The Role of Condoms in Kenya

PAI Releases Exclusive Video Footage

Exclusive video footage obtained in Nairobi, Kenya last month by Population Action International (PAI) is being made available to the media today. It demonstrates the critical role condoms play in preventing the transmission of the HIV virus and the negative effects PEPFAR’s abstinence only-earmark is having on the lives of women in Africa.

PAI is releasing excerpts of interviews conducted with Skytt Nzambu, a woman infected with HIV by her unfaithful husband, and Pamela Ondusu, a Kenyan reproductive health expert for Pathfinder International.

“Even when [my husband] was going for trips, I usually gave him a condom….for security…and he will not use it. Married women are more vulnerable than the unmarried ones. This is because when you are married, you do not have the right to say ‘no’ and you can not play safer sex…” Skytt Nzambu

“I think abstinence-only programs that focus on that as the primary message to the exclusion of other messages actually does more harm than help…I believe abstinence-until-marriage-only programs create expectations that your spouse will be faithful. This may or may not be true, and in the context of Kenya and in Africa, where it is quite culturally acceptable in many communities for a man to have more than one wife, this is very dangerous for the women who become his partner.” Pamela Ondusu

The footage contains the interviews, B-roll of Nairobi citizens and street scenes, and interviews both with subtitles and without. Available immediately on DVCam, miniDV and as a digital download at PAI’s website, the 16 x 9 footage is being distributed to aid journalists covering the upcoming 2006 International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada. Viewers will have the opportunity to see and hear for themselves how the lives and well being of women and families living in Kenya are being abruptly altered as the HIV virus continues to spread.

To receive the four minutes of interview footage on DVCam or miniDV -- or if you'd like a complete transcript of the interviews -- please contact Carlos Pinto, Media Manager, by phone at 202-557-3422 (direct) or via email.


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