Drama as a tool for combating HIV/AIDS in Nigeria: A reading of Tracie Utoh s Cauldron of Death and Victor S. Dugga s Hope Harvesters

Worried by high level of poverty in the world today, especially among developing countries in Africa and some part of Asia continents, Developed nations in Europe and America continents had seen the need to provide a sustainable improvement in the lives of people. Declaration of eight Millennium Development Goals by the United Nation (UN) in the year 2000 was therefore greeted with great ovation. The eight Millennium Goals (MDGs) were targeted among other things on improving the quality and quantity of life of the people especially in Africa and Asia continents. The eight targets of the (MDGs) are aimed at combating HIV/AIDS and incidents of malaria and other killer diseases. Healthy people, they say, breed healthy nation.