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:60 World AIDS Day Version

[Opens with carefree Female 1 walking down a city sidewalk]
SFX: Street sounds
 
[Cut to a distraught Female 2 sitting down at a café table]
SFX: Café sounds
 
[Cut to Female 1]
SFX: Street sounds
SFX: Text message ring
 
[Female 1 checks message]
Text Message 2: u hear bout kim?
 
[Cut to Kim party scene]
SFX: Party sounds
 
[Cut to Female 1]
SFX: Street sounds
Female 1: What about Kim?
Text Message 1: what bout kim?
 
[Cut to Female 2]
SFX: Café sounds
SFX: Text message ring
 
[Female 2 checks message]
Text message 1: what bout kim?
 
[Cut to Kim party scene]
SFX: Party sounds
 
[Cut to Female 2, she says/types]
SFX: Café sounds
Female 2: Never mind.
Text Message 2: nvrmnd
 
[Cut to Female 1, who checks message then says/types]
SFX: Street sounds
Female 1: No, what's up?!
Text Message 1: whats up?!
 
[Cut to Female 2, who checks message then says/types]
SFX: Café sounds
Female 2: She has HIV
Text Message 2: she has HIV
 
[Cut to Female 1, who checks message then says/types]
SFX: Street sounds
Text Message 2: she has HIV
Female 1: Nuh-uh, stop playin.
Text Message 1: 4 real?
 
[Cut to Kim party scene]
SFX: Party sounds
 
[Cut to Female 2, who checks message then says/types]
SFX: Café sounds
Female 2: Yea
Text Message 2: yes!
 
[Cut to Female 1]
SFX: Street sounds
Female 1: (gasp)
Text Message 1: how?
 
[Cut to Kim party scene]
SFX: Party sounds
 
[Cut to Female 2, who checks message then says/types]
SFX: Café sounds
Female 2: We went to a party.
Text Message 2: a party
 
[cut to Female 1]
SFX: Street sounds
Female 2: .a few months ago, and
Text Message 2: months ago
Female 2: .she got high,
 
[Cut to Kim party scene- Female 2 in voiceover, Text Message 2 appears during the clip]
SFX: Party sounds
Text Message 2: she got high
Female 2 (voiceover): got stupid,
Text Message 2: she got stupid
Female 2 (voiceover): and now she has HIV.
Text Message 2: she has HIV
 
[Cut to Female 1]
SFX: Street sounds
 
[Cut to Female 2]
SFX: Café sounds
 
[Cut to Female 1]
SFX: Street sounds
 
Screen: HIV
 
[Cut to Slate 1]
Slate 1: use ur brain.
keep ur body healthy.
b drug free.
 
[Cut to slate 2]
Slate 2: A public service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and this station. (top, center)
hiv.drugabuse.gov (center)
World AIDS Day, December 1 (center)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (bottom left)
NIDA National Institute on Drug Abuse (bottom right)
National Institutes of Health (bottom right)
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