Film Archive
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.
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.
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