Film Archive
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.
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.
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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