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The silent killer : AIDS in South Africa / by Marika Griehsel for SVT.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--South Africa.
- AIDS (Disease).
- AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--South Africa.
- AIDS (Disease)--South Africa.
- HIV infections--South Africa.
- HIV infections.
- Public health--South Africa.
- Public health.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (52 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2000.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- South Africa is hard hit by the HIV epidemic which is infecting more than 1500 people per day. At Johannesburg's biggest hospitals, forty to fifty percent of the beds are occupied by patients with AIDS-related infections It is estimated that one fourth of the population will be affected soon. The history of social and economic division that still continues in South Africa is reflected in the way the disease has spread. Poor black women in the townships get only inferior mixtures of AZT to prevent their babies from being born infected. They do not get the information necessary to prevent infection. The disease is not confined to the poor, for affluent whites are also affected by HIV. We hear from patients, social workers, medical experts and government policy makers on the magnitude of the problem.
- Notes:
- Originally released as DVD.
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
- OCLC:
- 747799059
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