AIDS: What everyone needs to know

Duration: 18

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1986

Creator: Churchill

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A survey of the facts and myths about AIDS. Animation explains in simple terms how the immune system works and how the AIDS virus destroys the system's ability to fight off other diseases. Details how the virus is transmitted by semen, contaminated i.v. needles, blood transfusions, and from mother to unborn baby. Discusses the early appearance of AIDS in the U.S. among homosexuals and drug users, the spread into the general population, persons at risk and how to protect oneself. , Reflects the changing profile of the at-risk population for AIDS. Interviews a mother whose baby was born infected with HIV, sexual partners of IV drug abusers, teens, African Americans, Hispanic Americans. Viewers learn how the AIDS virus destroys the immune system and how that lays the body open to other diseases, common and exotic. There is a discussion of symptoms, diagnosis, how AIDS is and is not transmitted, the growing danger to the general population, and how to protect oneself. Made in cooperation with the UCLA AIDS Center.

Complete Record: A survey of the facts and myths about AIDS. Animation explains in simple terms how the immune system works and how the AIDS virus destroys the system's ability to fight off other diseases. Details how the virus is transmitted by semen, contaminated i.v. needles, blood transfusions, and from mother to unborn baby. Discusses the early appearance of AIDS in the U.S. among homosexuals and drug users, the spread into the general population, persons at risk and how to protect oneself. , , Reflects the changing profile of the at-risk population for AIDS. Interviews a mother whose baby was born infected with HIV, sexual partners of IV drug abusers, teens, African Americans, Hispanic Americans. Viewers learn how the AIDS virus destroys the immune system and how that lays the body open to other diseases, common and exotic. There is a discussion of symptoms, diagnosis, how AIDS is and is not transmitted, the growing danger to the general population, and how to protect oneself. Made in cooperation with the UCLA AIDS Center. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.