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RAISE FUNDS... AND AWARENESS Put your money where your mouth is. Fundraisers are easy to organize, fun to run, and have an immediate impact on the minds of the people who donate and the hearts of those who receive. While students are encouraged to raise funds for any AIDS organization that they support, we have materials available for the following fundraisers:
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A CLOSER WALK
A Closer Walk is the first film to depict humankind's confrontation with the global AIDS epidemic. The film's director and producer, Robert Bilheimer, is an Academy Award nominee for his film Cry of Reason, a profile of the South African anti-apartheid leader Beyers Naude. A Closer Walk was conceived with the late Jonathan Mann, architect of the World Health Organization's response to global AIDS. A Worldwide Documentaries production, A Closer Walk has been produced in association with the Global Health Council. AIDS advocates featured in the film include His Holiness the Dalai Lama, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, and Bono of U2. Glenn Close and Will Smith are the film's narrators. For more information about the film, check out www.acloserwalk.org.
ENDING AIDS: THE SEARCH FOR A VACCINE (2005)
For the past 20 years, scientists around the world have been confronting one of the greatest medical challenges in human history: the search for an AIDS vaccine. Like detectives on the trail of a ruthless serial killer, determined researchers relentlessly pursue the elusive HIV virus, trying to unlock its lethal secrets. Along the way, they uncover promising leads, gaining critical insights into how to immunize the public against the deadliest virus known to man. But so far, the defiant microbe evades every attempt to defeat it. With each passing day, as the epidemic spreads to new parts of the world, the search becomes more urgent. In the absence of a vaccine, another 60 million people may become infected with HIV by the year 2010. ENDING AIDS: THE SEARCH FOR A VACCINE, tells the story of this dramatic duel between man and nature, taking viewers from high-tech labs to clinics where dying patients seek treatment, and into the lives of those whose bodies - for reasons still unclear - miraculously are seemingly immune to infection with HIV. And looking beyond the purely medical challenges into the wider cultural issues surrounding HIV, the film addresses the scientific, political, ethical and organizational challenges of stopping the signature pandemic of our time.
PILLS PROFITS PROTEST
"Pills Profits Protest" is an up-to-the minute documentary about global AIDS treatment activism. It examines the national and international grass roots response to an epidemic that has already overshadowed the Black Death in terms of human lives lost. The demand for access to affordable treatment for 40 million people living with HIV, most of whom live in poor countries, represents one of the most successful political movements of contemporary history.
This documentary examines critical junctures in the battle for access to HIV treatment as the poorest and most marginalized individuals confront larger powers, including governments, corporate bodies and a multinational drug industry that is motivated by profit. The fight for AIDS drugs is taking place in tandem with a growing anti-globalization movement; the latter provides a backdrop for examining AIDS through a lens of poverty, socioeconomic injustice and human rights.
At the heart of this documentary is a thorny question: Can the world afford universal HIV treatment? At what cost? What will be the global cost if we fail to treat and save 40 million people now? Pills, Profits and Protest are the three thematic touchstones of our film, each reflecting an important aspect of the current battle. Behind this movement are people, personalities and lives. Our film weaves their personal stories with a larger chronicle of history-in-the-making.
TO DO NO HARM (2003)
To Do No Harm is a 68 minute video documentary that takes a hard look at the relationship between the current trends in the spread of HIV, the practice of Needle Exchange and America's failed War on Drugs. Shot on location in Boston, Cambridge, New York and at the 2002 North American Syringe Exchange Convention in Albuquerque, the program is an in depth examination of the unwillingness of American institutions to accept Harm Reduction as a means of addressing the health problems associated with injection drug use. To Do No Harm also shows harm reduction programs in action, and the efforts of advocates to establish programs where people are not being reached.
OTHER FILMS AND BOOKS ON AIDS
Films
- Parting Glances, 1986 - An up close and personal story of small scope where a freelance writer in Manhattan has a friend dying of AIDS and a boyfriend leaving for a job in Africa.
- Longtime Companion -1990
- And The Band Played On, 1993 HBO Films - "This film reveals the terrifying fear, laced with every kind of resistance, that government agencies, gay groups and scientists alike felt while bringing the truth about AIDS to the American public. It documents the long, arduous trail of the Center for Disease Control's initial discovery in Africa and San Francisco in the mid-seventies to its medical clarity of AIDS as a virus in the eighties. The information is enlightening, the search is intense and the performances - with special cameos by actors who know how to tap soul - remain fresh. It's message of caring, fighting for the good of country, is still relevant to health issues now, approaching 2003, as we discover that half the population with AIDS are women." - Susana Williams, Region 7 ARAC '03-'04
- Before Night Falls, 2000 - tells the story of Renaldo Arenas who states in the voice over "I was born...in absolute poverty and absolute freedom". He managed, somehow, to publish twenty books and win international acclaim in spite of being scorned, hunted and imprisoned as artist and homosexual before dying in New York City of AIDS. A magical triumph of spirit, Arenas came to the U.S. in the Mariel boat lift with a friend who was not gay.
- Philadelphia, 1993
- Pandemic: Facing AIDS, Rory Kennedy Personal stories of people living with AIDS in Uganda, India, Brazil, Thailand and Russia.
Books
- Ryan White: My Own Story, Ryan White and Ann Marie Cunningham
- Pedro and Me, Judd Winick (the life story of Pedro Zamora, an HIV+ activist)
- AIDS in the World: A Global Report, Jonathan Mann, Daniel Tarantola & Thomas Netter
- All My Friends Are Dead, William Kirtley and Megan Peimer (written by a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Ivory Coast)
- Another Day in Paradise, Carol Bergman
- A Broken Landscape: HIV & AIDS in Africa, Paula Carballeira, Gideon Mendel, Reverend Gideon Byamugisha and Noerine Kaleeba (a photographic journey of PLWA in Africa)
- Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis, Emma Guest
- The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, Laurie Garrett
- Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Paul Farmer