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New film on Zambia

The Face of AIDS reporter Sam Coil, 26, who has worked for six years with Face of AIDS, has produced a new 25 minute documentary “ Zambia- Scaling up for HIV-Prevention”. He visited Zambia with a film team in 2006 and went back during a five months visit between 2007-2008. This documentary shows how HIV preventiuon is scaled up during the last years in Zambia. The film include intervciews with former president Kenneth Kaunda, United Nations envoy for Africa, Elisabeth Mataka, Father Michael Kelly. The film also focus on the Zambian Youth Vision project, targeting young people and led by Amos Mwale and Edford Mutuma, also interviewed in the film. Face of AIDS have given a digital video camera equipment to Youth Vision, which now has started to document its own activities.

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Filming for Harvard

Face of AIDS producer Staffan Hildebrand and cameraman Andreas Alfredsson has been assigned by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) to produce a 10 minute documentary on HSPH´s research work on epidemiology and HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, Tanzania and South Africa. The film will be shot in connection with a Harvard delegation visit to these three countries between January 20 – february 2. The delegation is led by the director of the HSPH Department of Epidemilogy, dr. Hans-Olov Adami. The shooting will result in several new webfilms, which will be uploaded on the Face of AIDS web.

Exclusive Interview with 2008 Nobel Prize Laureates

On december 8, Face of AIDS was granted an exclusive interview with the two 2008 Nobel Laureates dr. Luc Montagnier, World AIDS Foundation, Paris, and dr. Francoise Barré Sinnousi, the Pasteur Institute, Paris, who jointly was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of the HIV-virus in 1983. The interview was made in connection with their Nobel Prize Lectures at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Karolinska Institutet is awarding the Nobel Prize in medicine each year on behalf of the Nobel Foundation. Staffan Hildebrand made the interview. Dr. Montagnier was interviewed by Face of AIDS and Staffan Hildebrand for the first time at the Pasteur Institute in Paris twenty years ago, in March 1988. Dr. Montagnier and dr. Barré Sinnousi also accepted the invitation from Face of AIDS to be part of two personal and extensive interview, to be made in Paris in the beginning of 2009, where they will in detail descrive their part in the discovery of the HIV-virus in 1983. Dr. Montagnier and dr. Barré Sinnousi are strong supporters of the Face of AIDS film documentation.

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Curriculum based on the Face of AIDS film archive

The Karolinska Institutet will be the first medical university to design a special curriculum for undergraduates and graduate students, based on the Face of AIDS film archive. The curriculum is planned to be launched during the 2009 autumn semester. Research and editing of tailor made curriculum-films from the Face of AIDS film archive, will take place during the spring of 2009. After evaluation, the curriculum will be offered to universities and colleges worldwide. Some 20 specially edited educational films will be edited to the curriculum on "Lessons Learned – Looking into the Future".

World AIDS Day event in Harare, Zimbabwe

The Face of AIDS Foundation , represented by its producer Staffan Hildebrand and cameraman/editor Andreas Alfredsson, was invited by the the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Swedish International Development Agency, SIDA, to show its documentary “Women at the Frontline” at an event on World AIDS Day, December 1, in Harare, Zimbabwe. The screening took place at the National Cultural Center in Harare and the room was crowded. The event included screening of the film as well as discussions on the AIDS-situation in the country and live-music by a local women´s band. The event was hosted jointly by the Swedish Embassy and the Swedish SIDA. In connection with the event, the Face of AIDS film team, took the opporuntity to document current aspects of the AIDS-response in Zimbabwe. Seven hours of new film material has now been added to the film archive through this trip.