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Ghanaian Actress Tests Positive For HIV

130073791_828598The beautiful Canadian born Ghanaian actress who has received several awards and nominations, including the awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 2010 African Academy Awards and Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the African Movie Academy Awards in 2007, tested positive for HIV as Vanessa in a movie entitled – STIGMA also featuring Hilda Dokubo, Emeka Ike, Emeka Duru and Ngozi Nwosu among others, produced and directed by multiple award winning Nigerian filmmaker Dagogo Diminas.

STIGMA is set to be released coming . Read touching synopsis and watch trailers below!

A drama about ignorance and the consequences of carelessness. But also about the power to overcome desperate situations in life, to burst one's bonds and finally to be what want to be.

The life that surrounds Vanessa in the small community in Obonoma is manageable. Her mother, Ibiso, works as the local midwife, she is the only child of an already finished relationship and her mother's job permits her to go to

There are few obligations for her until her mother decides to accept the rampant promises of Smart Bob Manuel and marry him. Quickly this new stepfather shows his real face including his penchants for other women, stealing the mother's and spend it for his extensive journeys to the local bar. Finally his way ends in the house and in the arms of Ibiso's best friend.

Vanessa's childhood come to an abrupt end when her mother becomes ill, first without knowing the reason, and Vanessa needs to work in her mother's profession to aliment the family with now two more little children. She must learn about the enormity of ignorant thinking when a doctor and very good friend of hers diagnoses AIDS to her mother which results in the community including family members and her stepfather ostracize her mother and her. In this very moment they need help and support, but get only indifference and refusal.

Source: nigeriafilms.com
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