Face of Aids - Global AIDS Film Archive

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.

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.

Interview with Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS, November 2007

Length: 05:48

Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS, Geneva, has actively been involved in the global fight against HIV/AIDS since the mid 80´s. During his 12 years as head of UNAIDS, he has seen the global commitment to HIV/AIDS grow from 200 million dollar a year to 8 billion dollars a year. This is an excerpt from a long one to one interview made in his Geneva home in January 2007 by Face of AIDS Staffan Hildebrand.

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.

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.

Women, HIV and Human Rights

Length: 07:38

In this interview, made at the UNAIDS headquarter in March 2007, the South African AIDS-activist Mark Heywood, a key person behind the succesful NGO Treatment Action Campaign, TAC, focus on his views on women, HIV and human rights. 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.

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