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LiveHopeLove

From Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting | 00:52:57

Poet and writer Kwame Dawes travels to Jamaica to explore the experience of people living with HIV/AIDS and to examine how the disease has shaped their lives. Dawes' poems, inspired by their stories, take this documentary into deep realms of the heart.

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Thembi's AIDS Diary

From Radio Diaries | 00:23:27

South Africa has the largest number of people with HIV/AIDS in the world. More than five million South Africans are HIV-positive. Thembi was one of them. For a year, she carried a tape recorder and kept an audio diary of her struggle to live with AIDS.

There were ghosts everywhere: an oral history of AIDS in Provincetown

From Sarah Yahm | 00:12:13

An oral history of AIDS in Provincetown Massachusetts

Hour (49:00-1:00:00)

AIDS These Days

From Outright Radio | Part of the Outright Radio Series 2004 series | 00:58:56

AIDS These Days is a comprehensive look from 2004 at HIV/AIDS in the gay community including how the new treatments are seen as maintenance drugs and has fostered a rise in new infection rates.

*Some statistics mentioned may have changed since the date of production.

Shattering the Stigma: Women Confront HIV/AIDS in Africa

From A World of Possibilities | Part of the Women's History Month Special series | 00:55:00

The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to sweep across Africa and, unlike in the early phases of the disease, its primary victims are now women. Hear stories of mothers living with HIV, women watching their families die, and women who reveal their HIV-positive status in order to break the stigma that prevents effective action to halt this devastating scourge.

*Some statistics mentioned may have changed since the date of production.

WVR - Show 355 (One Hour) - Somalia and K'naan

From World Vision Report | Part of the World Vision Report - Weekly One Hour series | 01:50:25

Two clerics in Syria -- one Muslim, one Christian -- talk openly about a subject rarely discussed in public -- HIV-AIDS. They're working to change attitudes toward the disease so people will seek detection and treatment. This week the World Vision Report also takes you to China where authorities only recently admitted that AIDS was the leading cause of death there. Those stories, tribal radio in Pakistan, selling water by the sip in Morocco, and a lot more -- all coming up this week on the World Vision Report.

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Treating the Rainbow Nation: AIDS in South Africa

From WFUV | 00:57:03

Visited hospices, orphanages and treatment centers, speak with those treating the disease, as well as those suffering from it. This documentary explores the roadblocks that stand in the way of stamping out the disease, namely fundamental misconceptions about HIV/AIDS among the country's poorer sects. It also looks at the challenges of treating such a large-scale pandemic.

*Some facts and statistics mentioned may have changed since the date of production.

Half-Hour (24:00-30:00)

The Green Planet Monitor - Edition # 11

From David Kattenburg | Part of the The Green Planet Monitor -- Smart Solutions for a Developing World series | 00:30:00

What is health, anyway? The absence of illness, for sure. It’s also the result of having a home, being safe, fed and loved. Fran Lenhardt of Newmarket, Ontario rediscovered this simple truth while visiting HIV/AIDS orphans in a town in the Kenyan Rift Valley, three hours outside of Nairobi, in east Africa.

Steve Moore: Tears of a Clown

From Charles McGuigan | Part of the A Grain of Sand series | 00:28:41

AIDS survivor Steve Moore was one of the first comedians in the international limelight to bring laughter to this devastating illness.

The Color of AIDS: Bringing "Risk" Up to Date

From Making Contact | Part of the Making Contact series | 00:28:56

Those on the frontlines of the grassroots HIV/AIDS movement bring the discussion about HIV risk up to date. They say generating more relevant prevention models is literally a matter of life and death.

Bridget Ramasodi (South Africa's Promise)

From My Lens Media | 00:29:24

Bridgette had to leave her home, South Africa in 1991, during one of the most dynamic periods in that nation’s history. She left just one year after Nelson Mandela was released from political captivity — a time when people around the world were optimistic about that nation’s multi-racial political future. She tells 'Home, from Home' why she left, and how she maintains ties with her homeland by helping women and children in South Africa affected by HIV and AIDS.

WVR - Show 355 (Half Hour) - AIDS in Damascus and China

From World Vision Report | Part of the World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour series | 00:28:00

Two clerics in Syria -- one Muslim, one Christian -- talk openly about a subject rarely discussed in public -- HIV-AIDS. They’re working to change attitudes toward the disease so people will seek detection and treatment.
This week the World Vision Report also takes you to China where authorities only recently admitted that AIDS was the leading cause of death there.
Those stories, tribal radio in Pakistan and the simple pleasures of a Saturday night in Cuba.
It’s all coming up this week on the World Vision Report.

World Vision Report - Show 288 (Half Hour)

From World Vision Report | 00:28:00

It’s an unusual alliance in Syria -- a Catholic priest and a Muslim cleric working together to spread the word about HIV-AIDS. That’s because the disease is growing in that region by 300% a year.

Segments (9:00-23:59)

An Interview with Zackie Achmat: A World AIDS Day Special Report

From The Stanley Foundation | 00:11:40

South Africa has some of the highest HIV/AIDS infections rates in the world. And the country's ruling party, the African National Congress, and former President Thabo Mbeki spent years denying a connection between HIV and AIDS. But South Africa also has Zackie Achmat, a world renowned activist who has mobilized thousands of volunteers from America and elsewhere in the fight against AIDS.

Cutaways (5:00-8:59)

We Are Still Here: Voices of HIV+ Youth

From Julia Applegate | 00:05:52

A audio collage of voices of HIV-positive youth.

We Are Strong Women

From Julia Applegate | 00:05:24

An audio collage of voices of HIV-positive women in the United States.

Playlist: World AIDS Day