Face of Aids: Latest movies

2006 -2008 – Scaling up HIV Prevention

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT

]]> This documentary, made the by Face of AIDS reporter Sam Coil, was shot during 2006 – 2008 in Zambia and at the 2006 International AIDS Conference in Toronto. The film focus on the Zambian HIV prevention project Youth Vision and their activist leaders Edford Mutuma and Amos Mwale. In the film the Zambian ex-president Kenneth Kaunda, father Michael Kelly and UN Africa Envoy Elisabeh Mataka are interviewed.

Nobel Prize 2008 for HIV/AIDS-research

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT

]]> This year the Nobel prize was awarded for HIV/AIDS for the first time in the category Medicine and Physiology. It was awarded to the two discoverers of the HIV virus, dr. Luc Montagnier, World AIDS Foundation, Paris, and dr. Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Dr, Montagnier has been a strong supporter of the Face of AIDS film documentation since Staffan Hildebrands first interview with him, in 1988.

Michel Sidibe on the AIDS 2008 conference

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT

]]> On December 11 2008, the United Nations appointed Michel Sidibe, of Mali, as its top official in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. He will start as Executive Director of UNAIDS in Geneva in January 2009, replacing Peter Piot of Belgium. Sidibe has been the deputy at UNAIDS for Peter Piot during the last year. Sidibe, 56, has been involved in the AIDS-fight since the early days of the epidemic. This interview was made during the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City in August 2008.

Annie Lennox on HIV/AIDS

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT

]]> Annie Lennox has been deeply involved in the AIDS-advocacy since she visited Cape Town in 2003 and participated in an a music concert and an event with president Nelson Mandela. Lennox, who is a singer, songwriter and performer, has focused her attention to the issues related to women's rights in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Lennox, who is a global AIDS-activist, was interviewed when she visited the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City in August 2008.

Portray of a Bolivian AIDS activist

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT

]]> In this film the Bolivian AIDS-activist GloriaVioleta Ross, 32 is portrayed. She is living with HIV and has fot several years been a frontperson in the REDBOL network, the Bolivian Network of People living with HIV/AIDS. Violeta is also active in advocacy internationally both in UNAIDS and in the Global Fund.

The WHO 3 by 5 initiative

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT

]]> In this interview dr. Jim Kim, from the Francoise Xavier Bagnier Institute for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health and dr. Carissa Etienne, Deputy Secretary General of the WHO, Geneva are discussing how the WHO 3 by 5 initiative developed and has changed the global AIDS situation. Today three million persons living with HIV/AIDS are on antiretro viral treatment.

Three AIDS Pioneers

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT

]]> Dr. Paul Volberding, dr. Mervyn Silverman and dr. Lars Olof Kallings became prominent AIDS adcovates very early in the AIDS epidemic, during the mid 80´s. Here they compare their memories of how it was when they became AIDS adcovates and lessons learned from the passed 20 years. The also look into the future response of HIV/AIDS.

Sweden at the AIDS 2008 conference

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT

]]> This interview with the Swedish AIDS ambassador Lennarth Hjelmaker, was made during the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, August 2008. Swden was one of the main sponsors to the conference and to IAS. Ambassador Hjelmaker stresses the future commitment to young people in the fight against HIV/AIDS and focuses on the drivers of the pandemic.

Pedro Cahn, IAS on the development of the AIDS conferences

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT

]]> Dr. Pedro Cahn, a respected AIDs scientist from Buenos Aires, was President of the International AIDS Society, IAS, between 2006 – 2008. He was instrumental in bringing the AIDS conference to Latin America for the first time. In this interveiw he reflects about the succesful development of the International AIDS Conferences from 1987 and until today

The Legacy of Dr. Jonathan Mann, 1947-1998

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:39:21 GMT

]]> Jonathan Mann, a medical scientist and doctor from the US, became the first Director of the World Health Organization's Global Program on AIDS in 1985. He became one of the most important global AIDS advocates ever, and was the first to connect the global response to HIV/AIDS to the fight for Human Rights. This film was produced for UNAIDS to the ten year commemoration seminar at UNAIDS in Geneva, November 24, 2008 to commemorate dr. Manns death in 1998. A number of world leading AIDS experts comments on the legacy of dr. Mann in this ten minute film.