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A Conversation With Magic Johnson
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Audience:
Children, Multi-Racial
Year:
1992
Speech Rate:
188 words/min
Large Words
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This question-and-answer session features basketball star Magic Johnson, television news personality Linda Ellerbee, and 12 children in a brief discussion of HIV. The children include two girls who are HIV-positive and the brother of a child with AIDS. Topics discussed include the psychological impact of discovering one's own HIV infection, coping with rejection by peers, how AIDS is and is not transmitted, how to use a condom, and the value of sexual abstinence. Viewers are urged to be friends with people with AIDS.
This video will serve as an effective general introduction to AIDS and HIV for children and young adolescents. Both Johnson and Ellerbee speak frankly about HIV, sex, and condoms, using language that most older children will understand. By presenting Johnson, two children with HIV, and a child whose brother is infected, the video effectively provides a human face for AIDS and encourages children not to be afraid of people with AIDS. The matter-of-fact condom demonstration is likely to answer questions that many young viewers have about condoms, while also imparting the advice that children should wait until they are older to have sex. A version of the video without the condom demonstration is also available through the distributor. |
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