Why is There no Moon During the Daytime?

Early in 2004 the Medical Committee Netherlands Vietnam (MCNV) started a programme aimed at improving the quality of life and opportunities for HIV-positive women and their children in the community in Dong Da district, Hanoi. This programme supports the Vietnamese authorities in their efforts to provide better care and support to infected persons and promotes women's empowerment through self-help groups. It provides medical, psychosocial and economic support, as well as additional services such as conflict mediation and activities to promote social integration of mothers and children.

MCNV invited screenwriter director Bui Kim Quy and director Luong Dinh Dung to make a short fiction film to raise a discussion in Vietnam on the treatment of HIV infected persons in their families and communities.

The result is this video CD, offering insight into the life of a pregnant mother who discovers she is HIV-positive in rural northern Vietnam. This 12 and 1/2 minute-long short fiction film, written by a young female Vietnamese screenwriter, is based on real experiences of HIV positive women that organised a support group for themselves in Hanoi.

Copies of the video CD are available for free to national and international organisations as well as educational institutes working on HIV/AIDS, gender, anthropology and film. Preference is given to organisations or individuals who are working in Vietnam.

For copies, please sent contact the below addresses with your name, your organisation and the purpose of the CD.