Bush Radio HIV/HOP Project - South Africa

The HIV / HOP project at Bush Radio kicked off with a Concert on March 18, 2000. The Youth Against AIDS (YAA) 2000 Concert involved both Bush Radio's SACRAI (South African Community Radio Aids Initiative) and the YAA 2000 programmes that involves organisations from around the country dealing with HIV / AIDS. Phase 1 saw a group of 40 high school students from various schools in the Cape come for training at the Bush Radio training Centre in preparation for the concert. A month of on air talk shows, hosted by the students, was part of this. Phase 2 saw a programme developer and 4 young people from the Hip Hop community spend 3 months at Bush Radio, designing programmes that will carry an HIV / AIDS message to the youth in the townships. The programme has an on air component that runs on Tuesday afternoons and Friday evenings for 3 hours each.

Youth, HIV/AIDS.

Already some very interesting lessons were learned on how the youth in South African communities view issues regarding HIV/AIDS. A CD will accompany the final report that will be available at the end of July 2000. The team that worked on the programme will be attending a seminar in Amsterdam on September 23 to outline the the project and be part of an evaluation process.