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Health and Medicine - Africana Films

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A.B.C Africa   HV1347 .A33 2005 Over the course of a 10-day visit to Uganda in 2001, Abbas Kiarostami uses his camera to capture and caress the faces of a thousand orphans. An alternately heartbreaking and optimistic view of the results of the AIDS epidemic and civil war.
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.
Dead mums don't cry RG530.3.A35 D4 2005 This documentary follows Grace Kodindo, an obstetrician in Chad, as she tries to stop mothers from dying from pregnancy and childbirth.
Everyone's Child PN1997.A23 E8475 In a rural village in Zimbabwe, Tamari and Itai are devastated following the tragic death of both their parents. While family and neighbors turn their heads, the children, left with nothing, are thrust into a world of adult responsibility.  Itai tries his luck in the big city, leaving Tamari at home to fend for herself and their younger siblings.
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.
Lumo RC560.R36 L85 2007 A young woman seeks treatment for her physical and psychological wounds at a hospital run by HEAL Africa, a charity organization that provides holistic care to impoverished Congolese.
More time  HQ35 .M67 1993 A young girl coming of age in contemporary Africa must come face-to-face with the responsibility of becoming sexually active in a time of AIDS.
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?
The Shamans of the future or the new alliance  RS164 .S53 2006 This program identifies new ways for pharmaceutical companies to operate globally, promoting increased cooperation with local producers of traditional, plant-based medicines. Recognizing the worldwide demand for alternative medicine may create new producer countries, the program visits centers of herbology and other non-Western healing methods in China, Vietnam, Bhutan, Senegal, and Kenya. The documented ability of these facilities to fight AIDS and other diseases forms a powerful argument for the coexistence of both corporate and traditional industries.
Side by Side RA644.A25 S54 1993 Follows a social worker and a theater director/magazine editor as each uses her skills to overcome the effects of AIDS.
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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