Face of Aids: Latest movies http://www.faceofaids.org/ Face of Aids - Global AIDS Film Archive en-us Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:56:34 GMT Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:56:34 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Face of Aids info@faceofaids.org info@faceofaids.org http://www.faceofaids.org/images/logo.gif Women at the Frontline (Original version) http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/43 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/43

]]> This is the original version of Face of AIDS main film to the AIDS 2008 conference in Mexico City. The name is "Women at the Frontline" and it portrays four young women living with HIV/AIDS and also deeply involved in the global response to HIV/AIDS. These women are: Frika Chia Iskandar,26, from Jakarta, now involved in the Asian Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, APN+, based in Bangkok. Violeta Gracia Ross, from La Paz in Bolivia, is involved in REDBOL, Bolivian People living with HIV/AIDS and is also active on the Latin America arena in fighting stigma and discrimination. Skytt Nzambu, is involved in Kenya Women Network living with AIDS, KENWA abd focusing her work on young people and children. Toni Ros is a Swedish high school art student, 18 years old, living with HIV/AIDS since birth. She is involved in HIV Sweden and is using her art to fight stigma and discrmination.

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 Excerpts from an interview with Ricardo Barush http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/42 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/42

]]> Ricardo Barush, from Mexico City is one of the young AIDS activists from different parts of the world, who has been deeply involved in the development and growth of the Global Youth Alliance against IV/AIDS. This is the largest network of young activists in the world, using internet and new digital media to involve young people in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. This is a short segment from an interview Face of AIDS made with Ricardo in Mexico City during the preparation of the AIDS 2008 international AIDS Conference. Women at the Frontline (Short version) http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/39 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/39

]]> This is a six minute short version of Face of AIDS main film to the AIDS 2008 conference in Mexico City. The name is "Women at the Frontline" and it portrays four young women living with HIV/AIDS and also deeply involved in the global response to HIV/AIDS. These women are: Frika Chia Iskandar,26, from Jakarta, now involved in the Asian Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, APN+, based in Bangkok. Violeta Gracia Ross, from La Paz in Bolivia, is involved in REDBOL, Bolivian People living with HIV/AIDS and is also active on the Latin America arena in fighting stigma and discrimination. Skytt Nzambu, is involved in Kenya Women Network living with AIDS, KENWA abd focusing her work on young people and children. Toni Ros is a Swedish high school art student, 18 years old, living with HIV/AIDS since birth. She is involved in HIV Sweden and is using her art to fight stigma and discrmination.

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 Excerpts from an interview with Frika Chia Iskandar http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/38 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/38

]]> Frika Chia Iskandar, 26, is one of the most well known female AIDS activists internationally. Frika is born in and grew up in Jakarta,Indonesia. She got infected when she was 17 years old and at that time she was a drug user and shared needles with her friends. She changed her life when she came to a drug rehabilitation linic and is now working for the Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS. She is one of four young women living with HIV/AIDS, portrayed in the new Face of AIDS film production, "Women at the Frontline", made for the AIDS 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, August 2-8. Excerpts from an interview with Sharon Stone http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/37 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/37

]]> The famous Hollywood actress Sharon Stone, became an AIDS activist in 1995,when she started working together with Elisbath Taylor in the American Foundation for AIDS research(AmFar). Sharon Stone has since then been instrumental in raising funds for AIDS research, targeting the AIDS situation in the hard hit developing countries.She granted the Face of AIDS producer Staffan Hildebrand a long personal one to one interview, when she visited the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm in an international AIDS seminar, She tells her story when she first confronted AIDS in 1984, when she participated in a movie with Rock Hudson. One ear later he died of AIDS. Interview with Justice Michael Kirby http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/36 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/36

]]> The Australian based Justice Michael Kirby, has since mid 80´s been one of the strongest international advocates to connect the fight against HIV/AIDS to human rights. This interview was made in Sydney at his office in april 1988 and is an excerpt of a longer interview made by Staffan Hildebrand. International AIDS Society - the early years http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/35 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/35

]]> The International AIDS Society (IAS) with its headquarter in Geneva, is one of the most important international organizaions on HIV/AIDS, as organizer of the big International AIDS Conferences. One of the co-founders of IAS in 1988, was dr. Lars Olof Kallings, Sweden. In this recent interview, made in Mach 2008, he explains how IAS was started in a small basement in Stockholm, Sweden with only one employee, Josephine Rudebeck, who is also featured in this interview made at the original location of the first IAS office in Stockhholm, Sweden. San Francisco AIDS situation 1988 http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/34 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/34

]]> This film was shot in April 1988 with dying AIDS patients at the Ward 84 at the San Fransisco General Hospital, a hospital quickly becoming world known for their effort to take care of the AIDS patients. This was the early phase of the epidmeic and there was no functioning medication to treat AIDS patients. The film includes interviews with AIDS pioneers Paul Volberding, Mervyn Silverman and Ron Stall. Paris teenagers and AIDS 1988 http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/33 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/33

]]> The French response to AIDS came rather quickly in the mid 80´s. The national campaigns focused on young people and safe sex. This film, shot in Paris in March 1988, depicts a group of teenagers in Paris and their attidtudes on HIV/AIDS and safe sex. Dr Didier Yale, a Paris AIDS doctor is talking to the teenagers about HIV/AIDS. Lyle Taylor, living and dying with AIDS, Sydney 1988 http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/32 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT http://www.faceofaids.org/show/video/32

]]> The writer Lyle Taylor was among the first persons openly living with HIV/AIDS in Australia. He was involved in the fight against stigma and discrimination. He gave this interview to Staffan Hildebrand, for the Face of AIDS in March 1988, just ten hours before he died of AIDS. His physician dr. Charles Dwyer from St Vincent Hospital in Sydney, where Taylor was treated, is also interviewed.