Alex Chanorro, the writer of the play and the actor who plays the main role of 21-year-old Marcos , who gets infected with HIV, has been acting since 2005. He did radio soaps, among other things. “It is nice to talk about HIV because it is accepted and has a multiplier effect on the community.” “I feel engaged and committed to help the community” “Some people have come to me and asked me for condoms” He says that people are embarrassed to go to known organizations, so they come and see these plays and learn about the dangers and prevention of HIV. Alex understands the role in the sense that he identifies with issues in the Garifuna community.

The department of Colón consists of 10 townships (total population: 315,000 in 2014), one of them is Tocoa, where we will visit several villages (Prieta, Lérida, and Chiripa). 65 health centers in total in the department. 2 Hospitals, 17 large health centers, rest are rural centers. The policy is that everybody who has a fever gets tested for malaria. Last year, 42000 tests were done in Colon. 1187 were positive. In the township of Tocoa, 10,077 tests were done, 460 positive. The Global Fund supports control of breeding sites, surveillance activities, testing of patients, and mosquito nets, among other things - not the medicine.