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Episode 047  |  Date 05-21-2009  |  Duration (mm:ss) 29:03  |  Download

Theme : Forcefully Sex during pregnancy.

Content ,Issues & Message : Problems of women and risk of HIV due to forcefully sex  during pregnancy . Forceful sexual behaviour may lead to be HIV positive to the couple . If the husband is dissatisfied and think that he cant use his right to have sex according to his wish ,it  might be chances to make sexual relation with other female or sex worker and he is in risk of HIV  which may  lead to transmit with his wife .

Radio Report :Case of  Fulmaya Malla Makawanpur who suffer lots of violence in household including forcefully sex from husband  during pregnancy .

Radio Docudrama : Ankit Thapa & Tika Thapa Surkhet . Ankit helps his wife during pregnancy.

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Studio Guest : DR. Nafisa Malla Public Health Concern Trust (PHECT) Nepal & Ambika Poudel Sachet Sanchar Manch.

Telephone call : How do you/ your husband approach for sex during pregnancy ?

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Episode 046  |  Date 05-14-2009  |  Duration (mm:ss) 29:45  |  Download

Theme : Condom Negotiation with Husband.

Content ,Issues & Message : Condom Negotiation with Husband .The topic of condom negotiation may …….......................

Radio Report : Case of a women of Surkhet who is surviving by violence because she talks about comdom with  her husband.

Radio Docudrama : Ghamaraj Timalsena Makawanpur . He behave  positively with  his wife and help her to involve on outdoor activities . He never takes negatively , if his wife talks about condom .  

Studio Guest : Sarad Aryal ,Nepal Pariwar Niyojan Sangh & Sarita Shrestha ,Shakti  Milan Samaj

Telephone call : How do you react if your wife  talk about condom (for husband) ? Have you ever talk about condom with your husband (for wife) ?

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Episode 045  |  Date 05-06-2009  |  Duration (mm:ss) 28:50  |  Download

Theme : Domestic Violence Bill.

Content ,Issues & Message : This episode discussed on the provision mentioned on Domestic Violence Bill and way of implementation.

Radio Report : Various cases [ voice clips ] of violence affected women.

Parwati :  HIV +ve / Violence sufferer.

Balkumari Chaudhari : Domestic violence sufferer .

Rita Dhungel : forcefully marriage and mental violence sufferer .

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Episode 044  |  Date 04-29-2009  |  Duration (mm:ss) 29:18  |  Download

Theme : Allowances  for HIV positive Single Women.

Content ,Issues & Message : This episode deals in problems of HIV positive single women and responsibility of the state ( especially focused on social security allowances ).

Radio Report : Conditions and problems of HIV positive women.

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Episode 043  |  Date 04-22-2009  |  Duration (mm:ss) 28:27  |  Download

Theme : Adjusting newly married life.

Content ,Issues & Message : This episode focused on sexual relationship between newly married couple . AS a proverb " Morning shows the day " , if there is conflict between spouce from the first day of their marriage , there is high  risk of HIV .

Components : Case Radio Report : Case of a women , Rina Upreti Makawanpur whose husband forced her to sex from the first day of marriage  .

Studio Guest : Dr Rajendra Bhadra , Sexual Expert  & Narendra Dangol , A general man

Telephone call : A newly married bride refuse to have sexual relation with her husband , why ?

The details of : Success Story of Susila Adhikari Makawanpur . Her husband is caring and understanding her feeling and desires .

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Episode 042  |  Date 04-16-2009  |  Duration (mm:ss) 28:33  |  Download

Theme : HIV testing before marriage.  

Content ,Issues & Message : If a girl wants to test HIV herself and her to be partner before marriage, how should she approach ?  

Components : Case A girl who dares to ask to test HIV of her to be husband has chances of facing discriminations from society if the marriage gets cancelled. But to deal with it, she should be confident enough. Radio Docudrama: Sima Uprety knows about HIV well and she wants to ask her to be husband to test his blood and she also wants to test herself as well. But she doesn't know how to ask him.

Studio Guest : Sarita Karki (Expert in intersection between VAW and HIV) and KB Thapa (Layperson)

Telephone call : If your groom/bride (to be) asks you to test HIV before marriage, what would be your reaction?

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Episode 041  |  Date 04-09-2009  |  Duration (mm:ss) 27:24  |  Download

Theme : Status of single women with HIV.

Content ,Issues & Message : Here's a condition: a man marries a woman without letting her know about his HIV status and the woman knows his HIV status after he dies. Now she herself is HIV positive, she has kids and family discriminates her. What's next? Through some cases and studio discussion, this episode explained that the status of HIV positive women after their husbands die is very painful. They live for their kids but they are discriminated more and so are the kids. Some of them are even evicted from their houses and aren't provided their property rights.

Radio Report: Harina Thagulla, Kailali who didn't know about her husband HIV status while marrying him. But only after she got transmitted and he died of AIDS, she knew about HIV and AIDS.

Studio Guest : Shitoshna Timsina (Legal Advocate) and Ambika (woman with HIV ).

Telephone call : Suppose a man marries a woman without letting her know about his HIV status and the woman knows his HIV status after he dies. Now she herself is HIV positive now, she has kids and family discriminates her... What should she do ?

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Episode 040  |  Date 04-02-2009  |  Duration (mm:ss) 28:51  |  Download

Theme : Talking about HIV status between husband and wife.

Content ,Issues & Message : If a husband is HIV positive and has not told his wife yet, but recently she knows the fact herself. Now how should she approach? Through studio discussion and various case studies, it's clarified that if a wife is not told about her husband's HIV status, its violence against her which leads to HIV transmission. So she should be able to ask him about it and prevent herself from further disadvantages.

Radio Report: Gayatri Gautam, Makawanpur couldn't ask her husband about his HIV status and now she is also HIV positive.

Studio Guest : Narmada Acharya (UNAIDS) and Rajan KC who hid his HIV status to his wife for years.

Telephone call : If a husband has not revealed his HIV status to his wife but the wife knew from some sources. What should she do ?

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Episode 039  |  Date 03-26-2009  |  Duration (mm:ss) 28:32  |  Download

Theme : Long distance relation between husband and wife.

Content ,Issues & Message : How to maintain long distance relationship between husband and wife and specially how to talk effectively about sexual issues.If husband and wife are far from each other and don't get in touch regularly and don't discuss sexual issues often, this may increase the vulnerability of HIV transmission.

Radio Docudrama: Netra B.K. Achham who soon after getting married went to India for work. He didn't get in touch with wife often and didn't listen to her. He had physical relation with other girl and now he's HIV infected. Now he regrets the fact that he didn't talk to his wife and didn't respect her feelings.

Studio Guest : Gyanu Kshetri (Teacher of Gender Studies) and Ramraja Shiwakoti (A husband just got back from foreign employment)

Telephone call : How to maintain a long distance relationship? How to make it better?

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Episode 038  |  Date 03-19-2009  |  Duration (mm:ss) 29:11  |  Download

Theme : What is marriage?

Content ,Issues & Message : The concept of marriage and it's importance .If a marriage is not taken as an institution, it might rather lead to many dysfunctions among those HIV could be one. Radio Report: Devi Lama, Makawanpur compelled her son to get married with a girl just because she needed someone to help her in household chores.

Studio Guest : Modnath Prasrit (writer, wrote many books on marital issues) and Sharada Pokhrel (women's rights activist)

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Episode 037  |  Date 03-12-2009  |  Duration (mm:ss) 29:04  |  Download

Theme : Importance of unity (collective action)

Content ,Issues & Message : On the occasion of 99th international women's day, many organizations working in the field of women's rights came together and organized First National Women's Social Forum in Kathmandu. This episode was focused on the strength of unity and this social forum was reported as an example. Theme of this episode was "Unity of men and women to end violence against women".

Announcement of "Understanding Husband Competition 2009": Samajdhari requests all understanding husbands to write down 10 reasons on why they are the understanding husbands? Winner will be provided attractive gifts and provided a title of "The Most Understanding Husband".

Components : Case-Guest Host Mamta Kunwar (Shakti Milan Samaj) : Mamta Kunwar , HIV positive woman working for the rights of women living with HIV and AIDS through an organization.

Studio Guest : Murari Adhikari (Gender expert) on what is the roles of men to end violence against women and what does understanding husband mean?

Telephone call : What are the qualities of an understanding husband?

The details of : A radio report on collective action in the occasion of 99th international women's day.

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Episode 036  |  Date 03-05-2009  |  Duration (mm:ss) 27:46  |  Download

Theme : Women and foreign employment

Content ,Issues & Message : Preparation before going to foreign employment, why women is in higher risk? Foreseeing challenges and preparing to tackle them.

Components : Case : A woman from Dang who had survived a lot of problems (including sexual assault) because of her unawareness before going to foreign employment.

Studio Guest : Manju Gurung (Paurakhi, Nepal) and Sthaneshwor Devkota (Foreign Employment Promotion Department)

Telephone call : What are things to prepare while going to foreign employment?

The details of success stories of the Pushpa Thapa, Kathmandu : She was aware of every issue when she went for foreign employment.She is the example of aware girl who never suffered harassment and exploitation in foreign land.

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