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245 00 State of Denial.|h[Kanopy electronic resource] 
264  1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
       |c2015. 
300    1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 83 min.) :
       |bdigital, .flv file, sound 
336    two-dimensional moving image|btdi|2rdacontent 
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338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
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500    Title from title frames. 
518    Originally produced by California Newsreel in 2003. 
520    South Africa is the country with the highest number of HIV
       + people in the world. "State of Denial" puts a human face
       on the millions affected by introducing us to six South 
       Africans involved with the AIDS epidemic. By the year 2000,
       an estimated 4.2 million people in South Africa were 
       infected with HIV; if present trends continue by 2010, 7 
       million will have died of the disease. State of Denial 
       puts a human face behind the numbers by introducing us to 
       a cross-section of South Africans involved with the AIDS 
       epidemic. It shows how they must fight not only the 
       disease but the greed of the drug cartels and the 
       incomprehensible inactivity of their own government in 
       order to get treatment. The film clearly blames President 
       Thabo Mbeki and his administration for questioning the 
       link between HIV and AIDS. Not only does his position 
       prohibit the use of antiretroviral drugs, but adds to the 
       confusion about how the disease is transmitted and about 
       how to practice ?safe sex?. In 2000 he even arranged a 
       special meeting of advisors and to which he invited 
       ?denialists?, i.e. those who dispute that HIV causes AIDS,
       who used the meeting as a platform for their discredited 
       views. There are those who contend that a reason for 
       Mbeki?s stance is that developing a program to make 
       antiretrovirals widely available to the large numbers 
       needing them would drain scarce funds from his plans to 
       fight poverty in post-apartheid South Africa and leave his
       country beholden to international monetary and 
       pharmaceutical interests. Yet the loss of a generation in 
       its prime due to this disease would hurt the 
       reconstruction of South Africa as much as anything facing 
       the new society. A remarkably successful movement, however,
       has grown up around this tragedy. The Treatment Action 
       Campaign (TAC) opposed Mbeki?s stone-walling and pressured
       drug companies to cut the cost of antiretroviral drugs and
       medications treating opportunistic infections. We meet 
       Zackie Achmat, HIV positive leader of the campaign, who 
       refused to take life-saving drugs until they are available
       through the public health system to every South African 
       who needs them. TAC?s activism forced Pfizer to 
       drastically cut the cost of Diflucan which treats thrush, 
       a common opportunistic infection among people with HIV. 
       TAC has also gone to court and, over government objections,
       won the right of HIV positive pregnant women to use 
       nevirapine to prevent passing on the disease to their 
       children. Ordinary South Africans are also unobtrusively 
       volunteering to help those with AIDS. Buyile, a retired 
       nurse, runs a home-based healthcare program in the Kutsong
       township of Carletonville. She travels more than 3 hours 
       by train each day to reach her patients. There is little 
       she can do without the proper drugs, for patients like 
       Elizabeth who dies during the making of the film. We are 
       also introduced to Mary, the mother of two infected 
       children both of whom have been lucky enough to qualify 
       for antiretroviral trials and are doing better. She 
       worries, however, about what will happen to them if she 
       does not get treatment. Others are speaking out at great 
       personal cost about their HIV status. In 1998 Gugu Dlamini
       was stoned to death by her neighbors when she announced 
       that she had tested positive. Nonetheless Lucky Mazibuko 
       writes a weekly column for the mass circulation Sowetan 
       about life with AIDS. We hear from readers how Lucky?s 
       column has opened their eyes to the reality of AIDS. The 
       Zola Support Group provides a forum for people with HIV, 
       especially young women, to discuss their own relationships,
       sexual practices and the use of condoms. State of Denial 
       in essence argues that AIDS may well the greatest threat 
       to South Africa since apartheid and, by extension, to the 
       entire continent since colonialism and the slave trade. 
       Neither profits nor politics can be placed before it. It 
       will require the mobilization of the whole community, 
       including the global community, to deal with this 
       catastrophe. State of Denial is a disturbing yet inspiring
       tool for involving that community in the struggle against 
       AIDS. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 AIDS|xAIDS Prevention|xPolitical aspects|xGovernment 
       policy|zSouth Africa. 
650  0 HIV-positive persons|xCost of Medical care|xServices for 
       HIV-positive persons|zSouth Africa. 
650  0 AIDS|xAIDS Treatment|zSouth Africa. 
650  0 AIDS|xSocial aspects|xSocial Movements|zSouth Africa. 
655  7 Documentary films.|2lcgft 
700 1  Epstein, Elaine |efilm director. 
710 2  Kanopy (Firm) 
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