Excerpts from an interview with Frika Chia Iskandar

Length: 01:41

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

Length: 01:53

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.

Excerpts from interview with Martin Delaney, Founding Director, Project Inform, May 2006

Length: 06:10

This interview with Martin Delaney, founder and director of the San Fransisco based Project Inform, was made in 2006. He was one of the early AIDS-activists when AIDS hit hard in San Fransisco in the early 80´s. This is a segment from a longer Face of AIDS one to one interview.

Excerpts from one to one interview with Larry Kramer, writer and AIDS activist, May 2006

Length: 07:33

This excerpt from a long interview with pioneer AIDS activist and writer Larry Kramer from New York, was made in his New York apartment April 2006, highlights the early years of American AIDS activism. Kramer founded the Gay Men´s Health Crisis in New York in 1985. Interview made by Staffan Hildebrand.

Hemophilia and HIV/AIDS in the early years

Length: 02:38

This film, edited in 2006, focus on one of the early “risk groups” for cathing HIV, the hemophiliacs. The story of Ryan Whyte, a hemophiliac HIV infected American boy, and how he became a symbol in the fight against discrimination and stigma is highlighted in the film. Dr Phil Pizzo, Dean of Stanford Medical School, explains the importance of the hamophiliacs in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the US.

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.

Lyle Taylor, living and dying with AIDS, Sydney 1988

Length: 07:54

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.

The story of anti- retroviral treatment

Length: 03:22

This film highlights the development of AIDS drugs from the first one, AZT in 1986 to the introduction of anti retro viral treatment (ARV) in 1996 and to the second generation ARV in 2004. Martin Delaney from the Project Inform, San Fransisco, AIDS expert dr Anthony Fauci from the federal US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and dr. Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of HIV, comments on the rapid development. AIDS patients on ARV are also interviewed in the film.

Women at the Frontline (Original version)

Length: 24:49

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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