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Fighting For Our Lives:
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Audience:
Women, Multi-Racial
Year:
1990
Speech Rate:
180 words/min
Large Words
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This documentary about women and AIDS explores the various ways in which women are affected by the HIV epidemic. There is a particular emphasis on poor women and women of color. Segments describe an African American hairdresser who uses her salon as an AIDS education center; AIDS education among Asian and Pacific Islander women, Native American women, and Hispanic women; a research study of women whose male partners are drug users; the community of women with AIDS and HIV in San Francisco; and a support group for women with HIV in Washington, DC.
The video attacks the perception that women with HIV are "bad" women and describes the damage done by that stereotype. The video calls upon women to organize and fight to stop the HIV epidemic among women. This documentary will be useful primarily for educating individuals and groups about the special problems faced by women in the HIV epidemic. Its principal focus is describing those problems and depicting the ways in which women from different geographic regions and ethnic groups have begun to organize around AIDS and health. The video is not intended to educate the audience about the medical or behavioral aspects of HIV; rather it focuses on some of the epidemic's social dimensions. One of the only groups that is not included in the video is lesbians. Technically, the video is of high quality. |
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