HIV/AIDS in Film, Radio, Television & Theater

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I Am Alive Today (History of an AIDS Drug)

A film by Vincent Detours and Dominique Henry. The history of AZT (zidovudine, Retrovir) -- the first anti-HIV drug. Features protests at Wall Street and the White House plus comments from AIDS activists.

Read filmmaker Robert Bilheimer's letters from the road as he filmed A Closer Walk, a film about global AIDS.

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Feature Films About HIV/AIDS (Regularly Updated)
A comprehensive list of films.
Sign an Open Letter to Tyler Perry: Stop Stigmatizing People With HIV (May 20, 2013)
From Positive Women's Network of the United States of America
Tyler Perry's Temptation Sentences People With HIV to a Lifetime of Stigma and Isolation: A Blog Entry From U.S. Positive Women's Network (April 16, 2013)
"As partners, sisters, mothers, daughters, teachers and lovers living with HIV, we denounce Perry's portrayal of HIV as a punishment for bad behavior."
From Positive Women's Network of the United States of America
The Sexual Health Lessons of Tyler Perry's Tempation: A Blog Entry by Candace Y.A. Montague (April 5, 2013)
From TheBody.com
HIV in the Classroom: Making AIDS Activist History a Part of U.S. History (March 29, 2013)
A conversation with Jim Hubbard, co-director of the ACT UP Oral History Project.
From TheBody.com
AIDS Documentary "How to Survive a Plague" to be Made Into a TV Miniseries (March 1, 2013)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"deepsou+h": Filmmaker Explores HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Hardest-Hit Region (March 1, 2013)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"I Imagine Gay Men Who Lived Through AIDS at Its Most Ravaging Will Never Stop Thinking About It" (February 28, 2013)
An interview with playwright Christopher Shinn.
From Visual AIDS
Film Gospel of Healing Looks at Response to HIV/AIDS in Black Churches (February 26, 2013)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"When ACT UP Is Remembered, Other Places, People and Forms of AIDS Activism Are Disremembered" (February 17, 2013)
Part two of an interview with Queer Archive activist Alexandra Juhasz.
From Visual AIDS

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Global Media AIDS Initiative

Global Media AIDS Initiative Announces New Public HIV/AIDS Education Initiatives at XV International AIDS Conference (July 14, 2004)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
U.N. Secretary-General Annan Launches Global Media AIDS Initiative to Educate Public About HIV/AIDS (January 16, 2004)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

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