The age of AIDS

Resource Information

The work The age of AIDS represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The age of AIDS

Statement of responsibility

series producer and reporter, Renata Simone ; a co-production of WGBH/Frontline and Paladin InVision Ltd ; with Silverbridge Productions Ltd. and Channel 4 ; WGBH Educational Foundation

Contributor

• Barker, Greg
• Cran, William
• Lyman, Will, 1948-
• Simone, Renata
• Channel Four (Great Britain)
• PBS Home Video
• Paladin InVision, Ltd
• Silverbridge Productions
• WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
• WGBH Educational Foundation

Subject

• AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• AIDS (Disease) -- History
• AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects
• Documentary television programs

Genre

• Documentary television programs

Language

eng

Summary

Part one follows the trail of a medical mystery which began in 1981 when five gay men in Los Angeles were diagnosed with a deadly new disease. Traces the international response in the first years of the epidemic, contrasting moments of inspirational leadership with the tragedy of missed opportunities. Reveals the astounding spread of the infection to over 70 million infections in 2006. Part two explores the chasm that emerged between rich and poor following the development of the miraculous "triple cocktail" HIV treatment. While the discovery seemed to signal a new era in which AIDS was no longer a fatal disease, the high price of the drugs meant they were unaffordable to patients in developing nations. Also examines the next wave of the AIDS epidemic in some of the most populous and strategically important nations in the world, including Russia, India and China, and tracks the same pattern of official denial and political indifference that characterized the epidemic in so many other countries

Member of

• Frontline (Television program)

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

• Part one: producer and director, William Cran ; writers, William Cran, Renata Simone ; camera, Paul Lang ; editors, Steve Audette, David Espar, Joe Frost ; music, Mason Daring
• Part two: producer and director, Greg Barker ; writers, Greg Barker, Renata Simone; camera, Frank-Peter Lehmann ; editors, Paul Carlin, Jon Neuburger ; music, Mason Daring

Dewey number

362.196/9792

Language note

Closed-captioned

PerformerNote

Narrator, Will Lyman

Runtime

240

Technique

live action