Nidal has been pacing across the back stage room for the past 30 minutes. One can easily guess from his face that it is soon show time. In a few minutes, Nidal will be appearing along with his school mates in front of the entire student body to play a role of a young person facing HIV in his school.

Nidal is among the 68 students between the ages of 15 and 19 who were selected to take part in the Theatre Based Peer Education (TBPE) initiative, supported by UNFPA, in collaboration with Y-PEER and VAPA (Visual and Performing Arts Association), a local NGO