Film Archive
African perspectives 1987
Length: 04:38
This is an excerpt from one of the first documentaries on AIDS and Africa produced by British Channel 4 in 1987. The title of the film was “African Perspectives”, focusing on how the virus started to spread at an alarming rate through the Pan African Highway in countries like Uganda and Tanzania in the late 80´s.
AIDS Outreach among male prostitutes in Sydney 1988
Length: 05:34
HIV-prevention started early in Australia, and one of the most well known projects was The Albion Street Clinic in Sydney. This segment was filmed with dr. Julian Gold one of the founders of the project, a night in March 1988 when visiting prostitute teenage boys in “the Wall”. The film also shows the activities of the Australian Prostitutes Collective (APC), focusing on female sex workers in Sydney.
Bronx AIDS and drugs 1988 (Long version)
Length: 07:05
This film shows how HIV and AIDS hit the Bronx in New York, filmed in April 1988. The film focus on a narcotics police squad from the 47th Precinct in the Bronx and how they try to cope with the growing threat of HIV, particulary among injecting drug users. Many people in the Bronx was scared of HIV/AIDS and wanted to blame certain groups.
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 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.
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.
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 - IV drug use and HIV (long version)
Length: 22:45
This is a long version of interview with Edna Oppenheimer, made in Bali, Indonesia, in May 2008. She is an international expert on harm reduction, intravenous drug use and its connection with HIV/AIDS. She has focused her studies on the situation in Asia and Indonesia.
Interview - IV drug use and HIV (short version)
Length: 04:52
This is a short version of interview with Edna Oppenheimer, made in Bali, Indonesia, in May 2008. She is an international expert on harm reduction, intravenous drug use and its connection with HIV/AIDS. She has focused her studies on the situation in Asia and Indonesia.
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.
Interview, Rev. Guiseppe Brunetta. Milan Italy 1988
Length: 03:42
Italy was hit by HIV/AIDS in the eary 80´s. The response to HIV/AIDS from the strong Italian Catholic Church was ambivalent at the top level in the early phse of the epidemic. Italian AIDS activists accused the Catholic Church to promote stigma and discrimination through its ideology. But at the street level many Italian Catholic priests took an active part in caring for the AIDS patients and also in trying to communicate with young people about sex and condoms. Father Guiseppe Brunetta, involved in HIV prevention and caring for patients in Milan, gives his view of how to best fight HIV/AIDS based on his Christian values. Filmed in May 1988.
New York - The Early Years
Length: 05:18
In this interview, dr. Alvin Friedman Kein in New York, gives his personal recollection of how it was being an AIDS doctor in the early years of the pandemic in New York around 1981-85. Dr Friedman-Kein was one of the very first medical doctors in New York, who tried to treat the first AIDS patients in the city, fifteen years before the anti retro viral treatment was available.
Patient Zero
Length: 06:16
In this interview, dr. Alvin Friedman Kein, a pioneer AIDS doctor in New York, gives his personal recollection of how he met and treated one of the first known AIDS patients, Gaetan Dugas, a Canadian Air steward, who flew between Montreal, Toronto, San Fransisco, New York and many other cities. He was a gay man has a vast network of casual sexual relations with gay men, in the period when HIV started to spread. Mr Dugas died of AIDS in the early 80´s and was called “Patient Zero” in the media.
Report on boy prostitution 1987 in Rio (Long version)
Length: 05:12
In this film the sitauation of teenage prostitution in Copacabana is higlighted. Two teenage prostitutes is interviewed of how they protect themselves from HIV. Dr Eleonora Quinhoe,a Rio AIDS doctor, comments on how prostitution among young males and their clients increases the spread of HIV in Brazil. Rio politician Fernando Gabeira, involved in the the AIDS fight in Brazil, is also interviewed.
Report on boy prostitution 1987 in Rio (Short version)
Length: 02:20
Brazil was hit early on by AIDS. The virus was spread among poor people living in the favellas. Male prostitution was one way in which HIV was spread. The clients were often married men, and they bought sex from young men, without their wifes knowing it. Filmed in 1987.
Report on Bronx, AIDS and injection drug abuse. (Short version)
Length: 02:50
Early on the Bronx, New York was hard hit by HIV because of the vast numbers of injecting drug users. There was 250 000 drug users in the Bronx in 1988, half of them infected by the virus by 1988, when this story with the 47th Police Precinct was filmed. Maria Fuentes is a victim of the injection drug abuse (IV) and was infected by her husband. The AIDS activists demanded more politicians in New York to act.
San Francisco - The early years
Length: 04:00
This film highlight the early dramatic years of the AIDS pandemic in San Fransisco between 1978 – 1981. The vibrant Castro neighborhood became the epicenter of the epidemic. Doctor Selma Dritz, infectious disease specialist gives her unique recollection. Martin Delaney, Project Inform remembers the early years. In the end of the film, dr Paul Volberding, a pioneer in the fight against AIDS in San Fransisco, is reflecting on the early response, in an interview made 1998.
Streetchildren, HIV and Argentina
Length: 08:30
In this interview, made at the UNAIDS headquarter in Geneva in March 2007, the AIDS and human rights activist Mabel Bianco, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, gives her view of how street children are vulnerable to HIV and how HIV intervention has to target this group of young people.
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 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.
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.
Uganda - The early years
Length: 02:50
This film on Uganda, shows some unique images from Uganda, central Africa, from 1986, in the early phase of the AIDS pandemic, when truck drivers and prostitutes spread the virus. Thease images are excerpts from Channel 4, London documenary "African Perspevtives" from 1986. Uganda became one of the worst hit countries in Africa early on. Rose Kizito from the TASO Project, explains how Aids hit the Rakai district in 1982. Norein Kaleeba, founder of the TASO project makes a personal reflection of the early years and comparing Uganda and San Francisco.
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