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AIDS: Learn For Your Life |
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Audience:
Heterosexual High School Students
Year:
1988
Speech Rate:
172 words/min
Large Words
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David Shelley, a recent high school graduate, narrates this presentation of AIDS information for high school-aged heterosexual teens. After a young woman describes the death of her close friend from AIDS, Shelley and experts explain how AIDS attacks the immune system, how AIDS is transmitted, and how AIDS cannot be transmitted through casual contact. Viewers are encouraged to be sexually abstinent or to use condoms, and to avoid drug abuse.
Shelley is likely to be an effective role model for White and middle-class teen audiences. Strengths of the video include its direct confrontation of teens' sense of invulnerability, its attempt to establish norms that risk reduction is smart and "cool," its use of repetition to emphasize important facts, and its direct discussion of transmission through sex and sharing needles. The principal weakness is that some sections of the video – such as the predictions of the number of people infected by 1990 and the discussion of ARC – are out of date. Another limitation is that the video only briefly mentions male-male sex. Thus its principal target audience is heterosexual teens. Condom use is encouraged, but the correct use of condoms is not explained. Anal intercourse is described as risky for multiple reasons in addition to AIDS. |
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