Using Video to Share Your Story: Some Tips on National Caribbean HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
By Tseli Mohammed, AIDS.gov Project Coordinator
National HIV Testing Day is June 27th. For the last two years we've used widgets as a way to share testing messages, resources and stories. This year we launched the HIV/AIDS prevention and services locator widget to help connect people not only to HIV testing sites, but to other support services, like housing, mental health, substance abuse, and treatment.
For National HIV Testing Day last year we used a widget to share personal stories about getting an HIV test and people from Denver to Louisiana shared their stories and the director of AIDS.gov, Miguel Gomez, created and shared his video about what taking an HIV test meant to him. Even President Obama shared a video of he and Michelle getting an HIV test in Kenya back in 2006 and also reiterated the importance of getting a test today.
Personal stories are very powerful, whether it's a written story, a video, or simply a photo. I'm from Trinidad and telling one's own story is a large part of Caribbean culture and my own heritage. Since today, June 8th, is National Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NCAHAAD), I've put together this video to show you some of the steps to creating a video that can tell YOUR story.
