- Title: AIDS IN AFRICA
- Date: 3rd February 1997
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AIDS IN AFRICA
30/11/94: SALVATION ARMY'S HOME, BETHESDA HOUSE FOR HIV POSITIVE BABIES IN SOWETO:
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00.01.03 EXTERIORS
00.01.30 NURSE PUTTING NAPPY ON BABY
00.02.25 PLAY ROOM
00.03.15 CLOSE UP FACES
00.03.57 BABY SCARRED FACE
00.04.10 BABY IN Crib
00.04.18 FEEDING TIME - PULLING A FACE
00.04.49 INTERVIEW: DENISE BAISLEY [MEDIA CO-ORDINATOR OF SALVATION ARMY] This home, Bethesda House was opened by the Salvation Army about a year ago when we became aware of the need of these abandoned children that have been abandoned by parents who are HIV+. At the moment we've got about 19 babies; in fact we lost one last week but we got another one on Friday and there's so many more that we have to turn away.
00.05.10 Bsically all we can do for these children is give them just as much love & attention as we can and it's quite encredible when they get to us they're often very sick and very frail but within a few weeks they're happy bouncy babies, and often you can see no evidence of AIDS or the virus that they carry until they get sick or until people speak about it really.
00.05.33 Bethesda House was the first known facility of its kind in fact and that was established just more than a year ago. Up to now a few other organizations have built houses. This home officially has room for 12 babies and the statistics that we have, by the year 2000, 10 million children wil be orphaned in sub-Saharan Africa & room for 12 babies is not going to do too much.
00.05.55 WIDE OF BABIES SLEEPING
00.06.02 BABY SLEEPING SUCKING THUMB
00.06.09 LITTLE TODDLES SINGING "Cast yours burdens unto Jesus who cares for you"
00.06.44 HUGE CONDOM PAINTED ON WALL
30/11/94 INTERVIEW: DR JAMES MCINTYRE [SENIOR SPECIALIST BARAGWANATH HOSPITAL: SOWETO
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14.06.29 SA has lagged behind the rest of Africa for many years
wit regard to AIDS but we now have one of the highest rates of increase of HIV infection in the world & the figures are doubling just about every 12 months or so. We estimate from work on pregnant women who are quite a good indicator of what's happening in the community that around 6 to 8% of South Africans in the reproductive age group are infected with HIV.
00.07.34 In countries in Central Africa where we have 20% & 30 %
infection rates there I think it's very real. Almost everybody there have lost a friend or a family memeber; in SA we have not reached that stage yet although within the next 2/3 years we're going to see many more people dying of HIV. The estimates are that 20% of the SA population will be infected by the year 2010.
01/12/94: WORLD AIDS DAY: AWARENESS MARCH: JOHANNESBURG & ALEXANDRA
=====================================================00.08.06 TRADITIONAL HEALERS WITH HUGE BANNER "March against Aids" FOLLOWED WITH BY BUS
00.08.49 CLOSE UP SANGOMA [TRADITIONAL HEALER] FEET
00.09.00 BUSTANDERS WATCHING FROM PAVEMENT
00.09.08 DECORATED BUS
00.09.12 MAN DRESSED IN "CONDOM" MR LOVER MAN MARCHING
00.09.21 ENTERING ALEXANDRA TOWNSHIP
00.09.38 VIEWS FROM TOP OF BUS
00.10.21 MAN HANDING OUT PAMPHLETS / CONDOMS
00.11.18 DOWNTOWN JOHANNESBURG: POSTER - PEOPLE LOOKING THROUGH FENCE
00.11.26 MUSICIANS
00.11.43 RELEASING YELLOW BALLOONS
00.12.03 SIGNING PLEDGE BANNER
00.12.18 HIV+ VINCENT VEAL ADDRESSING CROWD: HIV is a disease that does affect a lot of people. There are currently 1 million people infected, but i'm here to tell you that for so long people with HIv have begged & when we've asked we pleaded to be treated equally...we are real people and we are here to tell you that we will not aloow you to treat us differently.
00.12.38 CUTAWAY MEN WITH RED RIBBONS
26/01/95: MALAWI: CHEZI REHABILITATION CENTRE IN LILONGWE: AIDS BABY
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00.12.44 WIDE OF CRIB IN ROOM
00.12.53 CLOSE UP BABY WITH AIDS IN CRIB - LOOKING SICK
00.13.21 POSTER "Aids is a sexually transmitted disease" WOMAN SITTING ON BENCH
00.13.28 INTERVIEW: SISTER THERESA [NOT THE FAMOUS ONE] We registered 400 children which we don't know what was the cause of their parents death...but we suspect that many of them their parents died from Aids.
00.13.51 They don't believe too much in this disease.
00.13.56 MAN HOLDING LITTLE BABY - MALNOURISHED
00.14.37 MAN WITH HIS WIFE ALSO HOLDING BABY - TWINS
00.14.40 STREETS OF BLANTYRE
12/08/95: MANDELA ADDRESSING RALLY: PIETERSBURG re: AIDS EDUCATION = VERY DIFFICULT BECAUSE talking about sex is a tribal taboo
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00.15.20 WIDE OF PACKED STADIUM
00.15.33 Amongst our people you don't talk about sex at all. It is taboo. When a small child ask the mother, Mom where do I come from? then the answer is a clap in the face, because our people don't talk about sex, but we must decide whether we are going to allow the population to be wiped out by AIDS or we are going to take methods to ensure that women, men children are protected. We must decide.
00.16.21 And I say let's teach our children sex education, but the elederly people in our society they say, in spite of that Mr President it is wrong for you to talk about sex to our children and but I think that our people should please co-operate with doctors with nurses and with everybody who understands how dangerous and destructive AIDS is, to co-operate.
00.17.07 CUTAWAY
15/09/95: PHOTOGRAPHIC AIDS EXHIBITION AT THE SOUTH AFRICAN ARTS GALLERY: CAPE TOWN [PHOTOGRAPHER: GIDEON MENDEL]
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00.17.08 WIDE EXTERIOR OF GALLERY PULL IN TO RED RIBBON ABOVE DOOR
00.17.22 BURNING CANDLE [NOTE: LIGHT IN ROOM CHANGES TO DIFFERENT COLOURS AS PART OF EXHIBIT]
00.17.48 PHOTO WOMAN BESIDE SICK MAN ON BED
00.18.44 SIGN 'positive lives: responses to HIV"
00.18.49 INTERVIEW: STEVE VICTOR [HIV+] mainly the black community believe that they are exempted from the disease that it only affects white people; there are myths about condoms in the black community & it's very difficult to bridge that & to convince them to use condoms.
00.19.20 I think the majority of people out there are ignorant in that they think that if a person is HIV+ or is diagnosed with AIDS, the person should be ill, skinny & has basically no quality of life. I stand in front & I say & they say, we don't believe you & I said well the blood test proved that I am + for about 7 years now and they can't believe that I am healthy, capable, mentally ver positive & that life carries on as normal.
00.20.14 MORE PHOTOS OF AIDS VICTIMS
16/11/95: SALVATION ARMY OFFICIAL OPENING OF ADCOCK INGRAM HOUSE FOR ABANDONED AIDS INFECTED CHILDREN: DOORNFONTEIN JOHANNESBURG BY GAUTENG MEC FOR HEALTH, AMOS MASONDO
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00.22.14 AIDS BABIES IN CRIBS - LOOKING HEALTHY
00.23.25 INTERVIEW: SALVATION ARMY ????This is a speciall centre designed for abandoned babies whose mothers are HIV+ We're going to house about 60 such children here and also in addition there'll be 30 HIV+ mothers as well as other work in this particular centre.
00.23.44 WIDE CORRIDORS
00.23.58 EXTERIORS OPENING
00.24.10 WOMEN WITH BABIES
00.24.44 WOMAN KISSING BABY
22/01/97: PRETORIA: DEPUTY PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI COMMENTING ON RESEARCHERS OF ALLEGED AIDS CURE WHO ADDRESSED CABINET
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00.24.58 There were 2 AIDS victims present. The AIDS victims described what had happened to them...they're really AIDS victims not just HIV+ & they described what had happened to them as a result of the treatment and there they were in the Cabinet Room walking about perfectly all right and so on...everybody applauded that achievement. It was a very moving thing to see...
23/01/97: INTERVIEWS WITH DISCOVERY TEAM OF POSSIBLE AIDS CURE, "Virodene": PRETORIA [EX-SABC] [NOTE: QUALITY = BAD]
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00.26.12 DR CALLIE LANDAUER: I just want to make it clear that there's no specific chemical substance that's been discovered. What we've got is a clinical application for a known chemical substance that actually in itself with its properties it's got, those inhibit the replication of the HIV VIRUS.
At this stage it might be very premature to say that, but the initial data that we've got & the clinical response from the patients that we've got at the moment, it could well be, but I don't want to say too much before we've got more information...more patients, more data...
00.27.20 ...in effect the effectivity of the substance we use according to lab & clinical data is fantastic & the toxochology studies that's been done up to now has been very very promising...to talk about a breakthrough at the moment for a thing that's been discovered in 1983 and the whole world has been working on this since then; it's very premature but there's a few things unique about this...if this really works it's going to be very cost-effective...it's going to have a very good patient compliance...basically application on the skin for 1/2 times a week.
00.28.20 So for the African scenario it might well be the solution in the sense it's cheap & the basic compliance is excellent.
00.28.32 SHOTS OF REPORT
00.29.19 LABORATORY FOOTAGE
00.30.02 VARIOUS NEWSPAPER HEADLINES
00.30.31 REACTION: PROF RUBEN SHER [WITS UNIVERSITY]
I'm very worried about giving people false hopes out there; I think we must be cautious; we need to see the results 7 we need to observe it from a scientific point of view...if it was me who have discovered it, I would have gone to a prestigious medical journal and write up my results there; I wouldn't have gone to a political organization like the Cabinet to present my results...it's very early days and without more information I would like to reserve my judgement...have to see if this is a fly-by night drug, a drug that helps people for a month or two and after that the virus develops resistance. when you're using one drug there's always a great danger...the AIDS epidemic can do with a miracle just now. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS