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Welcome to the beta version of the Face of AIDS Foundation new website - the first phase of making the complete historical film archive of the HIV and AIDS pandemic accessible and searchable online.
Swedish film director Staffan Hildebrand and the Face of AIDS project, has documented HIV/AIDS since 1986, resulting in 900 hours of unedited and edited film material.
By 2011 there will be hundreds of short web films depicting the human story of HIV/AIDS. To the AIDS 2008 conference in Mexico City, we have made 40 web films accessible and searchable, as a starting phase.
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Interview with Dr Jonathan Mann. WHO, Geneva, 1988
Dr Jonathan Mann first confronted AIDS in central Africa in the early 80´s. He became the first Director of the Global Program on AIDS at the World Health Organization in Geneva. He died in 1998 and is remembered for his unque leadership role in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. This is an excerpt from a longer interview made in Geneva in March 1988 by Staffan Hildebrand, and was one of the first interviews made in the Face of Aids documentation project.
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