Teen AIDS In Focus

Audience:  Teenagers and young adults

Year: 1989
Running Time: 16 minutes

Speech Rate: 177 words/min (English); 152 words/min (Spanish)

Large Words
Average: 3.6 (English); 11.6 (Spanish)
Minimum/Maximum: 0/18 (English); 0/30 (Spanish)

Language(s): English version; Spanish (dubbed) version


Purchase Price (VHS): $115
Rental Price: $60 for 30 days (applies as credit toward purchase)

Distributor:
San Francisco Study Center
1095 Market Street
Suite 602
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 626-1650 or (888) 281-3757

 

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This video explores a range of issues related to teenagers and AIDS, using interviews with HIV-infected and uninfected teenagers and segments of a question-and-answer session between high school students and two adult male PWAs. Focusing primarily on sexual practices, the video juxtaposes the attitudes and beliefs of infected and uninfected students, demonstrating the varying and sometimes contradictory beliefs and attitudes held by teenagers.

The video encourages compassion for PWAs by presenting teenagers with AIDS who discuss the effect of their illness on their lives, their fears, and the ways that they have attempted to come to terms with illness and death. The question-and-answer session includes discussion of blame for AIDS, AIDS education in the gay and straight community, coping with the fear of death, lost ambitions and the struggle to live life fully. The video presents the human side of the epidemic, touching briefly on prevention.

The Spanish version is a voice-over dub of the English version. The content of what is said in Spanish reflects the English version. Overall, the quality of the voice-overs is good.

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