Face of Aids - Global AIDS Film Archive

Excerpts from one to one interview with Anthony Fauci, M.D., Director NIAID at NIH, April 2006

Length: 06:53

Dr Anthony Fauci is head of US AIDS research since the 80´s. He is Director of the National Institute of Allergy, Infectious Diseases and AIDS, (NIAID) at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. He is interviewed about his longtime experiences in the global fight agains HIV/ AIDS. This is a segment from a three hour long interview made in his Georgetown home by Staffan Hildebrand in April 2006.

Excerpts from one to one interview with James Curran, M.D., Dean, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, April 2006

Length: 07:07

This is an excerpt from a one to one interview made by Staffan Hildebrand, Face of AIDS in April 2006 with dr James Curran, former director at the US Centers for Diseasae Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and today Dean at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. He speaks about his longtime experiences in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Dr Curran is one of the early pioneers in fighting HIV/ AIDS on the global arena.

Exerpts from interview with Craig MacClure, Executive Director, International AIDS Society

Length: 04:10

This interview with Craig McClure, Executive Director of the International AIDS Society, was made at the IAS headquarter in Geneva in March 2008. He comments on the upcoming AIDS conference in Mexico City, AIDS 2008, and also on some of the earlier AIDS-conferences and there importance as time markers of the AIDS response.

HIV/AIDS in Alabama, USA 2006

Length: 04:24

The spread of HIV in the US deep south, in states like Alabama, is increasing among the black minority. This film, shot in May 2006, is highlighting the AIDS situation in the state and the efforts by AIDS Alabama to halt further spread. The CEO of AIDS Alabama, Kathy Hiers, is interviwed along with Robert Williamson, living with AIDS.AIDS-expert dr Michael Saag, University of Alabama, is also interviewed.

HIV/AIDS in rural India 2007

Length: 04:25

This film higlights the spread of HIV in the Nammakal district, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu and the effort to halt further spread. This effort is led by the Nammakal General Hospital. They focus on intervention among long distance truck drivers and female sex workers serving them. Indian AIDS expert dr. Nm Samuel is intervewed in Nammakal. Shot in October 2007.

International AIDS Society – personal reflections

Length: 06:49

Dr Paul Volberding, University of California, San Fransisco (UCSF) and dr. Lars Olof Kallings, Advisor on HIV/AIDS to the United Nations, were the co-founders of the International AIDS Society, IAS, in 1988. Here they make some personal reflections of developments during the last 20 years. The interview was made in connection with the IAS 20th anniversary during the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, August 2008.

Interview with Dr Jonathan Mann. WHO, Geneva, 1988

Length: 07:43

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.

Julio Montaner at AIDS2008

Length: 05:04

Julio Montaner, Chair in AIDS Research, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, was elected as the new president of the International AIDS Society, IAS, at the XVII International AIDS Society, August 8, 2008. He is a well respected international AIDS expert and pysician, with a longrime experience of fighting HIV/AIDS. In this interview he explains the importance of the Mexico City AIDS Conference and what it means in the future global AIDS response.

Portray of a Kenyan AIDS activist

Length: 06:15

This film portrays the Kenyan AIDS-activist, Skytt Mukeli Nzambu, 35, and her extensive work against HIV/AIDS in the big city of Nairobi. Skytt is involved in the Kenya Women with AIDS, KENWA, network. She is focusing her work in the Kaimbio slum in Nairobi, where she works with counseling, advocacy and prevention.

Report - Counseling children living with HIV: Kenya

Length: 09:27

This report focus on how the Kenyan AIDS-activist Skytt Nzambu is counseling children who are orphans or who live with HIV/AIDS. Many of these vulnerable children live in child headed families. The support and counseling that Skytt provides is essential for the development of self esteem and future hopes for these children.

Report - HIV/AIDS in Post-conflict areas: Kenya

Length: 05:15

This is an interview with Lona Okwenku, who lives in the Kamibio slum area inb Nairobi. She was a victim to the conflict and the clashes, which happened in Nairobi and Kenya after the presidential election in March 2008. She escaped the clashes some time, and in the process lost her anti retroi viral medication for several weeks.

Report on Food security program: Kenya

Length: 06:12

During the international food crisis in 2007-08 it became obvious how important activities to promote food security, has in the fight against HIV/AIDS. This film gives an example of Skytt Nzambu from the Kenya Network of Women living with HIV/AIDS, educates people in poor setting how to to cultivate vegetables and other food supplies in a project promoting food security.

Report on Home based care program: Kenya

Length: 12:08

This film is focusing on how the Kenya AIDS-activist, Skytt Nzambu, is working with oureach home based care in the Kaimbio slum district in Nairobi. The home based care program is essential to help promote drug adherence among people living with HIV/AIDS in Kaimbio and all over Nairobi.

Thailand - Confronting HIV/ AIDS

Length: 05:50

This film will give you a quick overview of how the AIDS situation in Thailand, has developed between 1988 - 2004. After the early phase, a political leadership at top level helped to mobilze the community to successfully fight HIV/ AIDS. At the center was the Senator Mechai Viravaidya, in media called Mr Condom. He has been a real pioneer, in halting the spread of HIV/ AIDS in Thailand. Today there is free distribution of anti retro virals to people living with HIV and AIDS. This film ends with a story shot in 2004 about seventeen year old orphan, On, living with HIV since birth. She now lives at an orphanage and gets free medication each day. Her dream is that all people living with HIV/ AIDS will have free access to anti retro viral treatment.

The future of AIDS vaccine

Length: 05:30

Dr. Seth Berkley founded the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, IAVI, in 1996 and received the first major fundiung in 1998 from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is the CEO of IAVI, which has its headquarter in New York. IAVI is a key organization in the global effort to develop an AIDS vaccine which is working. In spite of failures to develop a functioning AIDS vaccine in 2007-2008, the effort continues.

The WHO 3 by 5 initiative

Length: 08:03

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

Length: 05:03

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.

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