As part of TEMPO’s One Love pro-social initiative, Choices, - Roots, Reality, Culture is a a 10-part ground breaking interactive scripted mini-series promoting self-awareness.

The scripted project takes viewers into the world of a group of young people who meet at Trinidad Carnival and become fast friends during a pure Caribbean adventure.

As their stories unfold, characters traverse issues surrounding sexual health, pregnancy, impaired decision-making due to alcohol consumption, HIV/AIDS testing, trust, and peer pressure. At the conclusion of each episode the audience will have the opportunity to vote to decide on the choices faced by an individual character.

Choices - Roots, Reality, Culture will be complimented by a weekly online blog and articles written by an advisory panel of youth health experts, artists, educators, and HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention experts.

The series will air on TEMPO and online via TEMPO’s broadband player. Through partnerships with MTV Staying Alive and UNICEF the series will go on to air on other MTVN properties including the Staying Alive website, and serve as a format for other Staying Alive productions. The series will be made available rights free and at no cost for broadcasters, around the globe.

Facts about HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean:

1. 250,000 persons in the Caribbean are currently living with HIV.
2. With an average HIV prevalence of 1.2%, the Caribbean is the region of the world with the second highest prevalence after Sub-Saharan Africa.
3. In 2006 alone, 27,000 individuals living in the Caribbean acquired HIV.
4. In some countries in the Caribbean the number of female adolescents between the ages of 15-19 living with HIV/AIDS has been found to be two to six times higher than the number of adolescent males of the same age group.
5. The vulnerability of young women to HIV infection is well documented. In the Caribbean, young women now comprise more than two-thirds (69%) of all young people living with HIV/AIDS.

For more information visit Tempo Choices and look out as we publish the episodes. In the meanwhile you can view the promos for the show in the embedded player below. RSS Subscribers may have to click through.