Do you want tickets to a film screening of Positively Beautiful? Let us know by March 4th!
This Friday, March 6th the United Nations Association of Greater Boston (UNA-GB) is honoring Women’s Health Day with a film screening of Positively Beautiful. The film tells a compelling story of five individuals living with HIV, in South Africa. The filmmaker, Diveena Cooppan got her MPH at BU!
The department would like to buy tickets for GH students to attend this event. If you’d like to go to the film screening this Friday, please email Carey Howard by Wednesday, 3/4 at 12:00pm.
Below is some additional information about the film, and a link to the Eventbrite page, where you can learn more about the event, panelists, and UNA-GB.
In South Africa five strangers facing shame and potential death from AIDS form an unlikely friendship. It transforms them from ordinary citizens to extraordinary activists. They struggle against stigma and fear; suicide and isolation. At the height of the epidemic they form a network for people living with HIV. As friends and family die, and leaders deny the existence of HIV, they fight harder. Fifteen years later, against all odds, they are still alive. Their friendship becomes a remarkable story: a quiet victory of meaningful, beautiful lives in an evolving South Africa. It gives strength in their struggles: of having children, fighting cancer, and being lesbian in South Africa. Positively Beautiful is a story about life and love in the age of HIV.
