2006 -2008 – Scaling up HIV Prevention

Length: 23:04

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.

Activism and AIDS denial

Length: 08:28

In this interview, made at the UNAIDS headquarter in March 2007, the South African AIDS-activist Mark Heywood, explains the background of Treatment Action Campaign, TAC, which he helped to found and lead. TAC has played a key role in promoting human rights and antri retro viral treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa and the world.

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 year 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.

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 - Becoming an addict

Length: 15:11

David Gordon, who is born in the early 40´s, tells his fascinating story of how he as a young man became a drug addict and criminal in California and ended up in prison. Finally he left the drug lifestyle, and became clean. That’s when he decided to leave everything he had in the US, and settle down in Indonesia with his new Indonesian wife, and start all over again by helping young Indonesian drug addicts, many of them with HIV.

Interview - Drug Rehabilitation in Indonesia - Yakita

Length: 06:35

This is a short version of an interview, made in Bogor, Indonesia in May 2008 with David Gordon, a naturalized American pioneer in drug rehabilitation focused on IV-drug users in Indonesia. Gordon came to Bali in 1995 and started to develop an extensive network of drug rehabilitation centers around Indonesia.

Interview - Indonesia and the IV drug situation (long version)

Length: 16:09

This is a long version of an interview, made in Bogor, Indonesia in May 2008 with David Gordon, a naturalized American pioneer in drug rehabilitation focused on IV-drug users in Indonesia. Gordon came to Bali in 1995 and started to develop an extensive network of drug rehabilitation centers around Indonesia.

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.

Nobel Prize 2008 for HIV/AIDS-research

Length: 00:00

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.

Pedro Cahn, IAS on the development of the AIDS conferences

Length: 06:02

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

Portray of a Bolivian AIDS activist

Length: 09:00

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.

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.

Portray of a young Swedish artist

Length: 04:26

In this film the 18 year old Swedish high school artist Toni Ros, is portrayed. Toni was born with HIV, infected by her mother. She is one of the few teenagers with HIV, who is open about her HIV-status. She is studying art at a Stockholm high school and is also involved with HIV Sweden.

Portray of an Indonesian AIDS activist

Length: 07:06

This film portrays Frika Chia Iskandar, 26, who is involved in the Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, APN+, and works in this NGO from the Bangkok headquarter. Frika is very active in international advocacy, promoting human rights, women's empowerment and human rihts in connection with HIV/AIDS.

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.

Report – Indonesia harm reduction and IV drug users

Length: 03:48

This is a report on harm reduction and IV-drug using problems in trhe Yakita drug rehabilitation center in Bogor, Indonesia. The peer educator Adam Subiono is interviewed in Bogor, Indonesia.

Report: Condoms, traditions and rituals

Length: 06:50

In this film, the Kenya AIDS activist, Skytt Nzambu, is discussing traditional values, tribe rituals and the use of condoms and the promotion of safe sex. The discussion shows how difficult it can be do overcome old prejudice and stigma, attached to HIV/AIDS.

The Legacy of Dr. Jonathan Mann, 1947-1998

Length: 09:58

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.

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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Women at the Frontline (Short version)

Length: 06:54

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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