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.

Annie Lennox on HIV/AIDS

Length: 10:00

Annie Lennox has been deeply involved in the AIDS-advocacy since she visited Cape Town in 2003 and participated in an a music concert and an event with president Nelson Mandela. Lennox, who is a singer, songwriter and performer, has focused her attention to the issues related to women's rights in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Lennox, who is a global AIDS-activist, was interviewed when she visited the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City in August 2008.

Cambodia 2007 - Successful prevention

Length: 02:45

Cambodia is among the countries, wich have succeded to bring down the prevalence of HIV, thanks to a strong political commitment from the top leadership and the civil society. In this film the Korsang project, targeting young intravenous drug users is highlighted along with some projects supported by KHANA, the national Cambodian AIDS alliance. The KHANA director Mr Oum Sopheap is interviewed.

Dr. Anthony Fauci at the AIDS 2008 conference

Length: 06:24

This interview with dr Anthony Fauci, head of US AIDS research at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH, i Bethesda, USA was made at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City in August 2008.
He comments on the global impact of this big AIDS conference, and also on the future prospects of AIDS research and AIDS vaccine trials. Dr Fauci is one of the most respected AIDS adcocates in 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 Ricardo Barush

Length: 03:19

Ricardo Barush, from Mexico City is one of the young AIDS activists from different parts of the world, who has been deeply involved in the development and growth of the Global Youth Alliance against IV/AIDS. This is the largest network of young activists in the world, using internet and new digital media to involve young people in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. This is a short segment from an interview Face of AIDS made with Ricardo in Mexico City during the preparation of the AIDS 2008 international AIDS Conference.

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 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.

Global Youth and Aids

Length: 06:53

Young people are playing an increasingly important role in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. This film highlights young people involved in advocacy from Cape Town, (South Africa), Kingston (Jamaica), Kiev (Ukraine) and New Delhi (India) and Gabarone (Botswana).

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.

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 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.

Julio Montaner at AIDS2008

Length: 05:04

Julio Montaner, Chair in AIDS Research, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, was elected as the new president of the International AIDS Society, IAS, at the XVII International AIDS Society, August 8, 2008. He is a well respected international AIDS expert and pysician, with a longrime experience of fighting HIV/AIDS. In this interview he explains the importance of the Mexico City AIDS Conference and what it means in the future global AIDS response.

Metro Teen AIDS, Washington DC, USA, 2006

Length: 03:07

Metro Teen AIDS, highlighted in this film shot 2006, is a succesful youth HIV prevention project in Washington DC targeting young people. The young peer educators go to the streets and meet young people and communicate messages of safe sex and HIV information. Anne Wiesman, program director, is interviewed along with Tyrone, 17, peer educator.

Michel Sidibe on the AIDS 2008 conference

Length: 05:00

On December 11 2008, the United Nations appointed Michel Sidibe, of Mali, as its top official in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. He will start as Executive Director of UNAIDS in Geneva in January 2009, replacing Peter Piot of Belgium. Sidibe has been the deputy at UNAIDS for Peter Piot during the last year. Sidibe, 56, has been involved in the AIDS-fight since the early days of the epidemic. This interview was made during the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City in August 2008.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sweden at the AIDS 2008 conference

Length: 05:10

This interview with the Swedish AIDS ambassador Lennarth Hjelmaker, was made during the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, August 2008. Swden was one of the main sponsors to the conference and to IAS. Ambassador Hjelmaker stresses the future commitment to young people in the fight against HIV/AIDS and focuses on the drivers of the pandemic.

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 future of AIDS vaccine

Length: 05:30

Dr. Seth Berkley founded the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, IAVI, in 1996 and received the first major fundiung in 1998 from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is the CEO of IAVI, which has its headquarter in New York. IAVI is a key organization in the global effort to develop an AIDS vaccine which is working. In spite of failures to develop a functioning AIDS vaccine in 2007-2008, the effort continues.

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.

The WHO 3 by 5 initiative

Length: 08:03

In this interview dr. Jim Kim, from the Francoise Xavier Bagnier Institute for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health and dr. Carissa Etienne, Deputy Secretary General of the WHO, Geneva are discussing how the WHO 3 by 5 initiative developed and has changed the global AIDS situation. Today three million persons living with HIV/AIDS are on antiretro viral treatment.

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.

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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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.

Young Men as Equal Partners, Zambia, 2007

Length: 05:46

This film highlights the fight against HIV/AIDS in Zambia, focusing on the youth oriented projects Youth Vision and Young Men as Equal Partners. The projects communicates messages of sexual and reproductive health and rights to young people in Zambia. AIDS activists Edford Mutuma and Amos Mwale are interviewed.

Young voices. Mexico, Russia and US

Length: 02:20

This film, shot in 2007, highlights young people from the Russian city of Tver, a center of drug trafficing. The film also takes us to Washington DC and the prevention project Metro Teen AIDS. The film starts with a visit to Mexico City where we are meeting Ricardo Baruch from the Global Alliance on HIV/AIDS.