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Conversations About AIDS And Drug Abuse
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Audience:
Drug Users, Multi-Racial
Year:
1988
Speech Rate:
151 words/min
Large Words
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This video portrays a series of individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds who recount their own history of injecting drug use and, in some cases, their AIDS diagnosis. They describe the experience of being diagnosed, their own denial surrounding AIDS, and their belief that it wouldn't happen to them. They also discuss the importance of using condoms and giving up drugs or avoiding transmission of HIV through sharing infected needles or works
Several of the interviewees describe their own inability to give up drugs, whereas others describe their own effort to stay clean. Captions in the last segments of the video reveal that several of the interviewees died shortly after they were taped for the video. Captions inserted throughout the video provide information about HIV/AIDS, risk groups and modes of transmission, and preventive measures. This video will be most effective with injecting drug users. The interviews with current and former drug users constitute a convincing form of peer education. They do not minimize the difficulties of quitting drugs. As noted in the video's opening caption, it is intended to generate discussion and supplement personal counseling and education, not to substitute for them. One weakness of the film is that information on HIV transmission and prevention is presented in visual captions with no voice-over. Viewers with poor reading skills may not be able to understand the screen text. Technically, the video is of adequate quality. |
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