do you want to see the continent's future. are going numb stares as they share their stories their dreams and their challengers. to seventy seven percent of g.w.'s platform. this is deja vu news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the world has made great progress when it comes to medically managing h.i.b. apes but in africa the stigma associated with the virus is still very strong we'll be talking to a prominent activist. and then the fall house start of all he turns one hundred years old 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 this stigma on hiv aids in focus today because just a few days ago a south african m.p. made his status public it was ofter an ex partner thracian to expose her on facebook has an even more tyros deal will 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 h. is possibly a mall and she went on to say perhaps these threats are a good thing it has made me add my voice to the dea stigmatize 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 these. issues by the general public i would never let people know that i'm a street corner and i feel like going to my partner because my status my private life but i'm going to keep it's a nice safe bank account though if. there is in being the bad piece i. would be different things that isolates him you from there are fewer dark 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 he's with i keep it to myself that i am. down to go house because it's look browse 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 you have a virus it's like you fit into the world to talk more about this we've invited in when cameron he's a judge on south africa's constitutional court justice cameron has spent many he is spearheading hiv aids campaigns and activism while comes to. justice cameron it's been twenty since you went public about being a heavy positive are you disappointed that in two thousand and nineteen people in africa also ostracized and discriminated against hiv positive. i think i wouldn't say disappointed because that sounds as though they've done 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 to 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 lead very normal and healthy lives i just want to get your take on why do you think that it's taking so long to sort of steve bank or be the the sort of stigma that's associated with having a heavy. 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 and especially internalize internal shown so it's hard to say and that's hard to do and also one must remember it took nearly fifteen years in north america to get the

cigarette smoke down from forty percent to eighteen percent so dealing with public attitudes to do season two years was 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 moments before we did this interview if somebody is private business but we're talking about how we thais 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 meeting 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 two distinct 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 if we had soccer stars and into ten min stalls and the public figures speaking freely and easily about their own dealing with this disease all right just a scam way thank you if all the doing all the activism you've put in that is south africa. edwin cameron speaking to us they thank you. a mix story is about bauhaus

a style of office or originating in germany one hundred years ago it's characterized by the form follows function buildings defied by t. lines and an absence off suppose 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 initiated by paul scofield the irish are on. the ferry in southwestern nigeria already sharon's campus for the university of utah 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 to 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 lagos nigeria's largest city which changes by the minute. you know she know as 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 ending modernism of the forty's fifty's and sixty's still a lot that. goes 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. 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 rule i'm not saying the me needs to be realistic and appropriately for this issue that we live in we have to face the fact that in the city of some people some people say twenty two we need to live in smaller and smaller spaces. like a molecular and new ultra modern and upmarket 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 how living in a city is evolving and changing i mean the whole world has changed in particular

living 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 flex that. functional economic and space saving so this is the start of a 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 who aren't home much. everything has a purpose. there's no ornamentation this property we have use plain on lines and color to 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 ok. sitter's them a passing fad. caution is always

a period based there's no guarantee that this building in another ten years will be an eyesore because it's got too many of its buildings need to be timeless even the bad household it's that a beautiful building it's timeless buildings can't afford to be fashionable. area sharon's university of effect is timeless this architectural milestone is a building with character africa is also part of the house or progeny stuff and international exhibition project that celebrates the back house school its legacy and its capacity for promoting trans cultural exchange. tosi no she 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 a host so vital to this day and keeps it up way is that it follows very basic ideas so it poses questions like how do we want to live in the future.

that's it. is africa for now you can catch all our stories on our website that's. forward slash africa and don't forget to join the discussion. the africa face full page where to such a know would you go public with your hiv status and what do you say is behind the state duma a child the aids will deaf to hear from you so we leave you now with pictures of aids activists in the ongoing fight against stigma across the continent catch you again on monday five finale.

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