Tsha Tsha is a South African youth-oriented television series that focuses on young people living in a world affected by HIV/AIDS and the challenges they face as they negotiate their way through adulthood.

This guide and the accompanying DVD form part of a strategy to broaden the reach of Tsha Tsha to non-broadcast environments. The guide aims to support the use of Tsha Tsha in contexts where the visual material is used to facilitate discussion, reflection, debate, and learning. More specifically, it aims to encourage conversation and debate around the following key themes from Series 4 which highlight strategies towards the effective management of HIV/AIDS:

• HIV risk in relation to having multiple sexual partnerships, as well as multiple, concurrent (overlapping) sexual partnerships;
• care and support for orphans and vulnerable children;
• minimising the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV; and
• antiretroviral treatment.

The publication was made possible through support from the President's Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Health Communication Partnership based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Centre for Communication Programmes, and Johns Hopkins Health and Education in South Africa (JHHESA).

To obtain a copy of this discussion guide and accompanying DVD, please see contacts below.

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Received hard copy at a meeting, Multiple Concurrent Partnerships Campaigns and Communications - Towards a Coordinated Regional Response, September 19 2008.