Discuss your reaction to the Bingwa case study in Box 6. 3. List all factors that, in your opinion, contributed to Bingwa’s change and rank them in order of importance. Use role-play to imagine a potential conversation on the same topic (STDs and their prevention) you may have with your peers or someone like Bingwa.

Data from 6. 3

 BOX 6. 3. HOW BINGWA CHANGED HIS WAYS

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At age twenty-four, Bingwa (not his real name) represents the typical Kenyan out-of-school youth: unemployed and hot-blooded, but generally hopeful and lively. He had been a regular attendee of the community theater sessions organized by Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), an international nonprofit organization, in collaboration with the local Rojo-Rojo troupe in Mumias, in Kenya's western province. Between January and September 2002, Bingwa's life evolved dramatically. This very average young man-married, father of a fifteen-month-old son, sexually active outside his marriage but insulated by a sense that he was not at risk of any infection-became one of the first youths to be stimulated by Magnet Theatre to navigate a course to new personal behavior that has made him a community role model. He volunteered to go for voluntary counseling and testing (VCT), learned for himself that he was not infected, and took serious steps to reduce his sexual risk by taking charge of his personal life.