HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE is the story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and, with no scientific training, infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials and into drugstores in record time. In the process, they saved their own lives and ended the darkest days of a veritable plague, while virtually emptying AIDS wards in American hospitals in the process. The powerful story of their fight is a classic tale of empowerment and activism that has since inspired movements for change in everything from breast cancer research to Occupy Wall Street. Their story stands as a powerful inspiration to future generations, a road map, and a call to arms. This is how you change the world. Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, New Directors/New films, San Francisco International FF, Provincetown FF, Outfest Documentary Centerpiece, Seattle International FF “Words like ‘important’ and ‘inspiring’ tend too often to be meaninglessly attached to non-fiction filmmaking, but in the case of David France’s compelling snapshot of a revolutionary period in AIDS treatment, they are amply justified… An epic celebration of heroism and tenacity, and less directly, a useful template for any fledgling …
Life is good for Dr. Laura Nelson, but her sense of tranquility is disrupted when she’s drawn into the diagnosis of the first case of HIV/AIDS seen in Tampa. The challenge of this new disease, however, is dwarfed by the disaster that impacts Laura’s life a few days later. A highly resistant bacterial infection is raging in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, and patients are dying. To make matters worse, Laura’s daughter is exposed to the bacteria and begins to show symptoms. All the while, Laura is unaware that a deadly plot is underway in Atlanta as a covert white supremacist cell plans an unthinkable attack on a massive scale. Can she prevent it…? Video Rating: 5 / 5
More info at www.garynull.com More than 200 million Americans are suffering from some sort of disease or medical condition at a cost of two trillion dollars per year. The conventional medical model shows no hope in curing, and little hope of improving, most of these medical problems. In fact, conventional pharmaceutical approaches to curing disease very often exacerbate the very problems they are supposed to cure, or create other new medical problems that were not there previously. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Watch the full film here: www.youtube.com For downloads and more information, visit: www.journeyman.tv Russia has the fastest growing HIV infection rate in the world. An epidemic that, ten years ago, could have been relatively easily contained, is now threatening to engulf the country. But how has the crisis reached such alarming proportions? Sex, Needles and Roubles takes us on a journey to the cold winter nights of St. Petersburg, where we meet some of its young drug-addicted prostitutes. Through poignant real-life stories and interviews with corrupt policemen-pimps and discriminating doctors, the scale of Russia’s problem slowly shifts into focus. “Come in girls — movies! Free movies!” jokes a beautiful young women, ushering her friends into the back of a car. A sense of camaraderie fills the air as they joke with the driver and sing him love songs. “Smile Sasha, O, mi amore!” But these are no ordinary women on their way out for a night on the town. They’re prostitutes, arrested in a mass round up and on their way to the police station to pay officers their daily bribes. “If we don’t give them their money, then we’ve had it!” giggles one in mock apprehension. For most Russians, the fall of Communism has come at a heavy price. Tight social controls have vanished, giving way to a pleasure seeking economy, burgeoning prostitution and corruption. Unemployment is rife and access to healthcare and social services limited. “St Petersburg saw an upsurge in prostitution around … Video Rating: 4 / 5
What if your life-saving medicine contained deadly viruses and the drug manufacturers, the government, and your own doctors knew but failed to warn you? Through the eyes of survivors and family members, BAD BLOOD: A Cautionary Tale chronicles how a miracle treatment for hemophilia became an agent of death for 10000 Americans. Faced with evidence that pharmaceutical companies and government regulators knew the product was contaminated with HIV and hepatitis, they launched a powerful and inspiring fight to right the system that failed them and to make it safer for all Video Rating: 5 / 5
INSIDE STORY is feature film that brings together the best of fiction and non-fiction storytelling in order to unravel the mysteries of HIV/AIDS. The film offers audiences an unforgettable experience – for man, a first look inside the human body, and a window into how the immune system, HIV, and antiretroviral therapies work. Kalu, a young man from rural Kenya, dreams of a professional soccer career. He moves to South Africa, begins a promising relationship with the coach’s daughter and is on the verge of soccer stardom when he learns he is HIV positive. Video Rating: 5 / 5
View the Award winning documentary “House of Numbers” to see why questions about this must be raised, and why deeper issues about HIV and AIDS need to be discussed. Lives are at risk. This is the first documentary ,with the worlds foremost authorities, that highlights the fundamental problems with HIV testing, science, and statistics, It sheds new light on a misunderstood phenomenon., for which there is still no cure. ORDER A DVD: www.houseofnumbers.com TOP HIV/AIDS Documentary Stream: “House Of Numbers” Free Online here bit.ly
Forty years of riots and celebrations, the birth of free love and the onslaught of AIDS. A generation that experienced it all. This is their story. www.peccapics.com Video Rating: 4 / 5
Oct 2007 Kenya’s female fish sellers have to pay a high price for their supplies. As well as buying the fish, they’re expected to sleep with the fishermen. The practice is fuelling Kenya’s AID rate. According the UN, 7% of the Kenyan population has AIDs. In the fishing district of Lake Victoria, it’s a staggering 42%. Many blame the high infection rate on fishermen sleeping with their buyers — a practice known as ‘jaboya’. “You don’t get fish if you refuse”, complains one woman. “After I rejected one man, he tried to stop the other fishermen bringing me fish”, confides Winnie. She was forced to give in and now has AIDS. To make matters worse, most of the Nile perch caught gets exported to Europe, depriving locals of a much needed source of protein. “We are in a situation where the people here barely have any protein to eat”, complains Dr Abila. Video Rating: 4 / 5
This story follows the progress of six patients through their 12 days of treatment at the HIVEX treatment center in downtown Durban. The full minute piece can be viewed here: www.youtube.com In non-technical terms the HIVEX-EMF treatment consists of an electromagnetic field tuned to disrupt the progression of HIV which allows the immune system to recover. www.hivex-treatment.org Video Rating: 4 / 5
