The Bottom Line

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Summary: The boss is deeply concerned. He has become aware that some of his employees are living with HIV, and he knows he must do something. But what? Between moral imperatives and making a good profit, where is the common ground?

Sample topics for discussion:

1) Rewrite the story, imagining that the “boss” is the headmaster of a school or a pastor, priest or imam.

2) In your opinion, what do people living with HIV need and want from their boss? And from their co-workers?

Directed by Hamet Fall Diagne, Senegal

Based on an original idea by Fatimata Bâ, age 21, Senegal, Grand Prize Winner of the 2005 Scenarios from Africa contest

• Length: 12 minutes 55 seconds
• Production date: 2007
• Shot in Senegal
• Currently available in: Dioula, English, Fon, French, Hausa, Igbo, Kinyarwanda, Kiswahili, Lingala, Mina, Mooré, Portuguese, Pulaar, Twi, Wolof, and Yoruba.

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