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AIDS: The Reality In The Dream |
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Audience:
Teenagers and adults
Year:
1988
Speech Rate:
209 words/min
Large Words
Language(s):
English
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This video portrays a stage production about the social and emotional issues that people confront after testing positive for HIV. Adrian is a young adult who has engaged in behaviors that put her at risk for AIDS: IV-drug use and sex without condoms. Now that she has tested HIV-positive, she faces rejection from her mother and some of her closest friends. She finds support, however, among other family members and friends.
The video includes discussion of casual contact and AIDS transmission routes (needle-sharing, unprotected sexual contact, and an allusion to mother-to-child transmission during pregnancy). Proper needle-cleaning procedures and condom use are mentioned but not demonstrated. Some information (e.g., references to ARC) is outdated. The video includes numerous devices apparently intended to evoke fear (e.g., music, chanting, lighting, the portrayal of the AIDS virus). The video is intended for a multi-cultural audience, and includes both Latino and African American actors. Latino cultural values are not specifically targeted. The Latino actor portraying the AIDS virus speaks in the most heavily Spanish-accented English of the five-person cast. The overall technical quality of the video is good, although the on-stage format may not appeal to some viewers. |
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African Americans
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