MIHLE Pike is the new presenter of the popular HIV-Aids awareness and educational show Siyayinqoba - Beat It! which is screened on the SABC's channels.
The show is targeted at people living with HIV and other chronic diseases, their partners, families, friends and care givers.
The content is researched, written and shot by a team of young journalists in KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape and Eastern Cape, who tell the HIV-Aids-related stories affecting their communities.
Lucilla Blackenberg, who is the director at the Community Media Trust - where Pike did an internship - says: "I'm excited by the new season of the show, because our new host is young and inquisitive and she is allowed an opportunity to meet and question high-level members of government on health policies."
Pike, who is from Cape Town, says she first encountered HIV-Aids at 15, when she lost an aunt to the disease. Then during her second year at university, she lost a 21-year-old cousin to the disease.
"It's through these experiences that I became determined to learn more about the virus and to put my journalism skills to good use," she says.
The young presenter did not have it easy in life, and her bitter-sweet escapades, include having given birth to a baby girlwhen she was only 17. In the same year, the teenage mother completed her matric and went to study journalism at Walter Sisulu University.
"Responsible living starts with you.
"As soon as any individual understands this, then we as a country will have combated half our problems," she says.
New face of hit television HIV-Aids show
MIHLE Pike is the new presenter of the popular HIV-Aids awareness and educational show Siyayinqoba - Beat It! which is screened on the SABC's channels.
The show is targeted at people living with HIV and other chronic diseases, their partners, families, friends and care givers.
The content is researched, written and shot by a team of young journalists in KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape and Eastern Cape, who tell the HIV-Aids-related stories affecting their communities.
Lucilla Blackenberg, who is the director at the Community Media Trust - where Pike did an internship - says: "I'm excited by the new season of the show, because our new host is young and inquisitive and she is allowed an opportunity to meet and question high-level members of government on health policies."
Pike, who is from Cape Town, says she first encountered HIV-Aids at 15, when she lost an aunt to the disease. Then during her second year at university, she lost a 21-year-old cousin to the disease.
"It's through these experiences that I became determined to learn more about the virus and to put my journalism skills to good use," she says.
The young presenter did not have it easy in life, and her bitter-sweet escapades, include having given birth to a baby girlwhen she was only 17. In the same year, the teenage mother completed her matric and went to study journalism at Walter Sisulu University.
"Responsible living starts with you.
"As soon as any individual understands this, then we as a country will have combated half our problems," she says.
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