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The hospice / a Willie Mwale Film Foundation production ; TVE ; producer, Tanvir Bush ; filmed & directed by Kasper Bisgaard.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Life (Bullfrog Films). Series 4 ; program 26.
- Life 4 : the millennium series ; 26
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- UN Millennium Project.
- International cooperation.
- HIV-positive persons--Hospice care--Zambia.
- HIV-positive persons.
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Hospice care--Zambia.
- AIDS (Disease).
- Hospice care--Zambia.
- Hospice care.
- Hospice nurses--Zambia.
- Hospice nurses.
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients.
- Zambia.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (23 min.) : digital, sound, color.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2017]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- The Mother of Mercy Hospice on the edge of the capital, Lusaka, was the first of its kind in Zambia. 'Our idea was just to build a simple shelter so people can die with dignity,' says Sister Leonia. 200 people a day in Zambia die from HIV/AIDS. Because controlling HIV/AIDS is one of the biggest challenges world health experts face, all the member countries of the United Nations have pledged to 'reverse' the spread of the disease as one of the UN's Millennium Development Goals--a global ambition the international community hopes to achieve by 2015. This Life film follows the work of the staff and volunteers at the Mother of Mercy hospice and in the surrounding villages. The courage of patients, the resilience and despair of the staff and the dignity of how they all deal with the almost daily ritual of death combine to give a poignant account of the human face of AIDS in modern Africa.
- Participant:
- Commentary, Adjoa Andoh.
- Credits:
- Executive producer, Brenda Kelly ; series producer, Dick Bower ; editor, Jens Bidstrup.
- Series producer, Dick Bower.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced in 2005.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 24, 2017).
- Originally broadcast on the BBC World television program Life in 2004.
- Publisher Number:
- bf-l4hosp Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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