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AIDS in Africa.  produced by Roger Pyke Productions, Ltd. in co-production with The National Film Board of Canada Ontario Centre ; directed by Roger Pyke ; produced by Simcha Jacobovici, Henry Gold, Roger Pyke ; writer, Elliott Halper.  RA644.A25 A36344 1990  Describes the war on AIDS in Africa, where the disease cuts across the entire population, affecting men and women of reproductive age and their children, striking a continent already wracked by underdevelopment, civil strife and corruption.
Healers of Ghana.  Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1996, c1993.  DT510.43.A53 H4 1996  Explores the traditional medical practices of the Bono people of central Ghana and how their healers are accommodating the conflict between the arrival of Western medicine and their religious beliefs. Traditionally, Bono tribal priests undergo a painful spiritual possession, during which deities reveal to them the causes of illnesses, which plants to use to treat them, who is perpetrating witchcraft, and which villagers might be endangering society through improper behavior.
The Origin of AIDS  : mystery of the chimps / ABC News, Films for the Humanities & Sciences.  RA644.A25 O74 1999  Did the HIV1 virus originate with an endangered subspecies of chimpanzees in sub-Saharan Africa? [This program discusses] the nature of infectious diseases, whether the chimp theory is viable, and the causes and effects of the African bush meat trade. Can researchers determine how these chimps stay healthy, despite HIV, before hunters drive them to extinction?
This virus that has no cure  / produced by Mark Newman & Robyn Hofmeyer for Phakathi Films & SABC.  DT14 .L58 1995 v. 3  Many sectors of the community in Zambia are developing ways of caring for sufferers, educating about prevention and living with the problems of the many people infected with HIV.

 

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