Exclusive “MTV Shuga: Down South” Screening

On Tuesday, March 28, at 12:00 pm on the Charles River Campus, BUSPH will be screening the new season of MTV Shuga: Down South. Pioneered in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2009, MTV Shuga is a long-running drama series and multimedia campaign that follows the lives of young people on the African continent. Aired on MTV channels around the world, the show’s content is also offered rights-free to third party broadcasters and content platforms, and used as a teaching aid by educators, healthcare workers, and grassroots HIV/AIDS organizations around the world. Over the previous four seasons, the drama has crossed the continent from Kenya to Nigeria and touched on numerous plotlines relating to HIV and safe sex, including HIV testing, stigma, living with HIV, mother-to-child transmission, transactional sex, gender-based violence, and condom use.

Joining us for the screening and discussion will be Georgia Arnold, senior vice president of social responsibility at Viacom International Media Networks and executive director of Staying Alive Foundation; and MTV Shuga: Down South cast member Given Stuurman.

For more information on this event and to register, click here.