Video Catalog

• AIDS: A Family Experience The video documents the crisis and triumph of one family's struggle with the fact that a loved one is dying of AIDS. The members speak candidly and unselfconsciously about their ambivalent feelings and their words serve as a model for family response to this terrible disease.

• AIDS: The Street War This video documents the work of the Atlanta Street Team for AIDS Risk Reduction (STARR), a group of recovering addicts who go into the streets in minority communities and talk to people about protecting themselves from infection. Interviews explore the interrelationship between addiction and AIDS and the need for more treatment centers.

• Any Questions? The Universal Precautions Explained: In a question and answer format, this video explains the universal infection control precautions, as outlined by the Centers for Disease Control, for the protection of health care workers from HIV infection and dispels myths regarding HIV infection and its transmission.

• The Buffer Zone This video explains the clinical course of HIV infection and the psychosocial problems commonly encountered by mental health professionals and shows the need for comprehensive counseling and the responsibility of the mental health professional to offer sympathetic, nonjudgemental, and expert informational services.

• Classroom AIDS This video demonstrates that it is possible for schools and parents to overcome fears and problems of educating a child with HIV in a normal classroom by a process of education and cooperation.

• Habits and Choices Participants in the video are currently or formerly homeless people and represent the hard core of drug users. In following the daily lives of these people, the video presents much of the basic information about HIV/AIDS and discusses various ways addicts may successfully struggle with their habits and live with HIV.

• It's Not Easy A successful young Ugandan executive, well-known for his womanizing, discovers he is carrying the AIDS virus when his newborn son and wife are diagnosed. It's not easy for him to tell his friends and employer, but with their help he finds the strength to accept his infection and provide an example to others.

• Living with AIDS This video demystifies AIDS by personalizing the disease and its impact in an honest, nonthreatening manner and encourages greater sensitivity to people with AIDS.

• Mending Hearts Narrated by Christopher Reeve, this video offers a compassionate, intelligent response to the AIDS epidemic. It follows several people whose experience with AIDS has caused them to make changes in the quality of their lives.
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• No Rewind Designed to heighten teenage awareness, this multicultural documentary focuses on education and communication as essential to bringing about the behavioral changes that can prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS.

• Of Critical Importance AIDS Precautions in Radiology: The video discusses necessary precautions for staff in radiology departments to follow to protect themselves from HIV infection. The primary message is that health care workers' risk is minimal when appropriate barrier precautions are used.

• One of Our Own AIDS in the Workplace: This corporate training package discusses legal issues and provides a model for planning a corporate strategy on HIV-infected employees. It examines the ethical implications of avoiding responsibility for employees with AIDS.

• Physicians and AIDS: The Ethical Response In spite of continuing education, health professionals are still reluctant to treat seropositive patients. The medical community has been increasing divided by a debate over whether or not physicians' refusal to treat patients with HIV infection can be reconciled with the ethical responsibilities of the profession. The surgeon in this drama is faced with performing surgery on an HIV infected patient and trying to come to terms with his own reservations.

• Psychosocial Interventions in AIDS This video includes interviews with gay men who offer insight about the psychological impact of AIDS and discussions with medical specialists on counseling issues for both client and mental health professionals.

• Shadow of Addiction Produced and narrated by a recovering heroin addict, this video takes the viewer on a tour of the dark side of addiction. Addicts in a crack house, inmates in a medium security prison, and an inmate on death row graphically relate their experiences and serve as dramatic examples of the personal losses caused by drugs: loss of faith, family, fortune, health, education and future.

• Why Me? Dealing with an Occupational Exposure to a Bloodborne Virus: This video gives reassurace to health care workers who have been exposed to a bloodborne virus such as HIV. An OSHA representative describes the steps that need to be taken after exposure.