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.

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.

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.

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.

International AIDS Society - the early years

Length: 02:16

The International AIDS Society (IAS) with its headquarter in Geneva, is one of the most important international organizaions on HIV/AIDS, as organizer of the big International AIDS Conferences. One of the co-founders of IAS in 1988, was dr. Lars Olof Kallings, Sweden. In this recent interview, made in Mach 2008, he explains how IAS was started in a small basement in Stockholm, Sweden with only one employee, Josephine Rudebeck, who is also featured in this interview made at the original location of the first IAS office in Stockhholm, Sweden.

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.

One to one interview: Sharon Stone (long version)

Length: 20:11

The American Holywood actress Sharon Stone, has been active in the fight against HIV/AIDS since 1995. Then she became honorary chair of the American Foundation for AIDS research, AmFar. She has focused much of her work on human rights, gender issues and stigma associated with HIV/AIDS. In the interview she comments on first encounter with HIV/AIDS in 1984, working with the world famous actor Rock Hudson This is the long version of an interview made at a global AIDS-seminar in Stockholm in May 2008..

One to one interview: Sharon Stone (short version)

Length: 07:07

The American Holywood actress Sharon Stone, has been active in the fight against HIV/AIDS since 1995. Then she became honorary chair of the American Foundation for AIDS research, AmFar. This is the short version of an interview made at a global AIDS-seminar in Stockholm in May 2008.

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.

Story of AIDS activism in the US

Length: 04:15

This film focus on some major milestones in American AIDS activism, as a response to the rapid spread of HIV in the USA between 1985 – 1996. The film highlights violent demostrations between Aids activists and police. The famous Aids activist and writer Larry Kramer and the head of US Aids research Dr Anthony Fauci recolects ther memories from a confrontational time. The Quilt Names Project, to commemorate those who died of AIDS, and Project Inform, both based in San Fransisco, are also highlited in the film.

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 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.

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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