MRC_AIDS and Addiction

Video Tape Categories

Fritz, Deb and Dennis: Living with AIDS [VHS]
15 minutes
Description: Fritz, Deb and Dennis are former drug users who contracted HIV infection through unclean needles. They "tell it like it is" about the importance of maintaining good nutrition, a healthy lifestyle and relationships with lovers, friends and family while "living with AIDS."

Haven [VHS]
15 minutes
Description: Haven takes the viewer through the depths and the steps that are needed to seek recovery from drug addiction. Those who have been there recount their journey from addiction through treatment to recovery and offer help and support to others in getting undercover and into treatment.

Up a New Rope: A Talk About AIDS and Recovery [VHS]
15 minutes
Description: Up a New Rope powerfully portrays the connection between IV drug use and AIDS, through concrete and candid delivery of the information by recovered drug users, outreach workers and others who work closely with the addicted.

Video Against AIDS [VHS]
(3-part program)

PWA Power, Discrimination, AIDS & Women (part one)
114 minutes

Resistance, Mourning, Community Education (part two)
115 minutes

Loss, Analysis, Activisim (part three)
115 minutes

Description: Video Against AIDS takes a passionate look at the personal and political issues surrounding the AIDS epidemic. Produced by concerned artists, activists, people living with AIDS, and, their family and friends, these tapes give voice to first-hand experiences, ideas and feelings which the mainstream media have for the most part denied. Video Against AIDS is thematically organized around 9 sections which provide a creative framework for increasing awareness on the viewpoints, ideas, facts and political organizing strategies related to the AIDS crisis.

African/African-Americans/Civil Rights

AIDS and Addiction

Asians/Asian-Americans

Cultural Differences

Historic Oppressions

Latinos

Lesbians, Gay Men and Bisexuals

Unspecified

Native Americans

People with Disabilities

Prejudice Racism

Rape and Sexual Harrasment

Vietnam-era Veterans

Women