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 a charity aids but in africa this stigma associated with the virus is still very strong we'll be talking to a prominent activist. 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 putting this 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 threaten to expose her on facebook as a new 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 to fix 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 mall and she went on to say perhaps the straights are a good thing it has made me add my voice to the d. 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 my street corner and i feel like only my part in it because my stage is my

private life but i'm going to keep it's a nice safe take out the people. there is in being the bad people say they. would be different things that isolates in me from there are few would argue 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. danceable house because it's look it borrows in 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 the if you have a virus it's like you think end of the world but to talk more about this we've invited edwin cameron he's a judge on south africa's constitutional kolisch justice cameron has spent many is the hating hiv aids campaigns and activism while comes to. justice cameron it's been twenty since you went public about have you 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 they don't but it's a terrible calamity for our country and for our continent meant that this disease didn't cilla tended by 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 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 the 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 fifty 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 is always a very complicated thing. just as cameron one status is 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 menacing to people before we did this interview if somebody is

private business but we're talking about how we deal statement 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 hiv . it would be a wonderful way and you're right about it i've been on that survey for virals 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 we would have without the 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 could mean a huge amount of yet soccer stars and entertainment stalls and leading public figures speaking freely and easily about their dealing with this disease all right just a scam a thank you for all the. all the activism you've put in that is significant. edwin cameron speaking to us they thank you. nick story is about bauhaus a style of originated in germany one hundred years ago it's characterized by the form follows function buildings defied by lines in an absence off supposed autumn in taishan it was the revolutionary at the time and has influenced all he takes across the wool one major its own poll is found in nigeria the university off if initiated by balls co-founder i reassure on. the thing in southwestern

nigeria are a 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's gained independence the 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 no where 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 postilion is them 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 ruling does not necessarily mean need to be realistic and appropriately for the system 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 up market district phase one of his project is already complete to see if you know where he 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 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 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 and lagos built for millennia aren't home much. everything has a purpose. there's no ornamentation this property we have use plain color to redo 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 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 there's got to many of its buildings need to be timeless even the bell household it's been a beautiful building it's timeless buildings can't afford to be fashionable. areas sharon's university of new faith is tireless this architectural milestone is a building with character africa is also part of the house imagine the stuff and

international exhibition projects that celebrates the bauhaus school its legacy and its capacity for promoting trans cultural exchange. toso you know she know what 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 all hosts so vital to this day and keeps it away is that it follows very basic ideas so it poses questions like how do we want to live in the future. that's it for news africa for now you can catch all our stories on our web site that's dot com forward slash africa and don't forget to join the discussion about d.w. africa face full page where to search and know would you go public with your hiv status and what do you say is behind the stigma of hiv aids we'll have 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 but for now.

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