all we can be the generation that ends it good malaria must go on so millions can live. this is the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the world has made great progress when it comes to medically managing a child the aids but in africa the stigma associated with the virus is still very strong we'll be talking to a prominent activist. then the fall start of turns one hundred years old we'll take you to a modern classic in nigeria. i'm

christine want to welcome to news africa i'm glad you're tuned in we're pushing the stigma on hiv aids in focus today because just a few days ago a south african him being made his status public it was ofter an ex partner thracian to expose her on facebook tell me more tyros deal world so someone is threatening to reveal my status to you all but let me save him the hassle of doing it i have nothing to hide but also some things are not necessary to share with people it doesn't affect but since i've been threatened let me do it because i don't take kindly to threats i'm hiv positive and have been now for eight years possibly more and she went on to say perhaps these threats are a good thing it has made me add my voice to the the stigma size ation that is still embedded in our society. so just how bad is

hiv aids related stigma in our communities we took all cameras and people told us some of the reasons why they wouldn't want their hiv status to be public knowledge . because of this to see my theories on all of this. by the general public i would never let the people nerves are my street course and i feel like only my part in it because my fate is my private life but i'm going to keep it's in my face i can tell people. there is in being the bad people say they mean i'll be different and use that isolates in me from our feel like it is something that people should keep in their personal life and told those in their personal lives not something that's for the public to know exactly is where i keep it's myself that i am it's i mean it's you know it's a good house because it's look it borrows and some people would say ok you don't trust no she has

a child we. don't go near her don't date her because she has this virus as if if you have a virus it's like if the end of the world bothers to talk more about this we've invited edwin cameron he is a judge on south africa's constitutional court justice cameron has spent many is spearheading hiv aids campaigns and activism while comes to. justice cameron it's been twenty since you went public about being hiv positive are you disappointed that in two thousand and nineteen people in africa also ostracized and discriminated against for being hiv positive. i think i wouldn't say disappointed because that sounds as though being dumb but it's a terrible calamity for our country and for our continent meant that this disease didn't cilla tended bar so much discrimination so much stigma and also so much internalized shame twenty years off to medication become available

a good fourteen years off the government started providing treatment so it's a great impediment continuingly to our management of the epidemic. just as common people as you've alluded to in terms of the grounds that the world has made in terms of the medication people with hiv today can be very normal and healthy lives and i just want to get your take on why do you think that it's taking so long to sort of steve bank or the the the sort of stigma that's associated with having a. i think it's a deeply personal thing the shame of. sexual transmission i think it's that it's difficult to explain no other disease is attended by quite this amount of shame with internalized internal shown so it's hard to say and that's hard to do and also one must remember it took nearly fifty years in north america to get the cigarette

smoke down from forty percent to eighteen percent so dealing with public attitudes to disease and to health. is always a very complicated thing. just as cameron one status is their private business you know and i think you know when we talk about you know would you be public about hiv status as as we're listening to people before we did this interview and it's somebody is private business but we're talking about how we distilled into ties hiv aids and it seems like that's the only way to do that when public figures like yourself come out and say i'm living with this and i'm getting a very normal life but then that's asking people to to make public what should be personal what they should be allowed to keep is the only way that we can get to d. statement hiv. it would be a wonderful way and you're right about it being on answer good for virals for for nearly twenty two years and i've got almost the same expectation of life as

a sixty five year old man in good health like me would have without a child b. but i still am one of the very few perhaps the only public figure in the whole of africa who has spoken about the so it's very difficult i don't say that i ask other people to do it i don't encourage other people to do it only say that if they could do it if they could come the difficulty the fear of discrimination of the shy and it would be enormously helpful it would mean a huge amount of soccer stars and into ten men stalls and leading public figures speaking freely and easily about their own dealing with this disease all right just a scam a thank you for all the. all the activism if put in that is significant. edwin cameron speaking to us they thank you. a mix story

is about bauhaus a state of origin a scene in germany one hundred years ago it's characterized by the form follows function buildings defined by t.l. lines and an absence off supposed ornamentation it was the revolutionary at the time and has influenced all he takes across the wool one major example is found in nigeria the university off if initiated by balls called fonda i reassure on. the face and southwestern one cheerio aria sharon's campus for the university everything is open area and well suited to the tropical climate and it makes a statement for the bauhaus opened in one nine hundred sixty two just two years after nigeria gained independence university became a symbol for the fledgling democracy back then modernism was progressive and today too the ideas about how stood for have a future can they still provide answers to the question how do we want to live for

instance in lego's nigeria's largest city which changes by the minute. you know she no is an architect and a child of modernism she studied and lived in london if it remains an inspiration for her. when we had monism come in in the years of any post-colonialism the architects that came of the day. i'm not the architecture that has really formed the structure of this it's on the early modernism of the forty's fifty's and sixty's still a lot of texture. towse you know she no one has returned to her homeland today she lives and works in lagos she loves the city's wild and creative side. lego's just grows and grows today it's africa's second largest. city and one of the world's most populous somewhere between colonialism and modernism nigerian

architects are creating their own design language one that seeks to meet the challenges of everyday life. increasingly their focus is on the mega-cities what was considered as african tenets of being within the ruling does not necessarily need to be realistic and appropriately for the city that we live in we have to face the fact that in the city of some people say something was a twenty two we need to live in a smaller and smaller spaces. like a molecular and new ultra modern and up market district phase one of this project is already complete to see if you know what is constructing minimalist housing units similar to ones built around the globe architecture must adapt to changing lifestyles we need to be forward thinking we always need to reflect on. on how living in a city is evolving and changing i mean the whole world has changed in particular

moving in smaller spaces being more practical the demographic is changing how people live the family units is being redefined you know and we need to make sure that we produce an architecture that suite flecks that. functional economic and space saving so this is the start of the two bedroom apartment so it's open plan kitchen it's really about i think efficient living. apartments like this one are still a rarity in lagos built for millennial so you aren't home much. everything has a purpose so there's no on the mentation this property we have used play in the mines i'm called to review the form and i think it's been quite successful but. it's a stark contrast to other aspirational districts popping up with their pompous colonial style structures ornate pillars and decor otieno. considers them a passing fad. caution is always period based there's no guarantee that this

building in another ten years will be and i saw him because his book too many of its buildings need to be timeless even the baha school it's been a beautiful building it's timeless buildings can't afford to be fashionable. already sharon's university of new faith is tireless this architectural milestone as a building with character africa is also part of the house imagine the stop and international exhibition project that celebrates the bauhaus school its legacy and its capacity for promoting trans cultural exchange. toso you know she's no well is one of a new generation of nigerian architects meeting here looking for answers to pressing questions and discovering how the bauhaus remains relevant today. what's made by host so vital to this day and keeps it that way is that it follows very basic ideas so it poses questions like how do we want to live in the future and.

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the for. a welcome to news from the world about some culture i'm robert merrill i'm let's have a look at what's coming up today. net or who won last year's your a vision song contest has released a new single and she's responded to calls to boycott this year's competition being held in our home country of israel. when you boy light from being shed you spread darkness. capernaum a lebanese movie about

a young boy born into a world of extreme poverty is home favorite for the foreign language. and giants of the renaissance a multimedia exhibition in leipzig celebrating leonardo da vinci and his contemporaries. israeli sing and that's one the euro vision song called shared with an anthem of female empowerment cold toy now she's got a brand new single and she's been speaking out about this is competition to be held in tel aviv in may speaking out because some office calling for a boycott citing israel's human rights record towards palestinians i'll be discussing this with my colleague david leavitt's in a minute but first the news solved.