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Bicycle
This intimate portrait looks at AIDS through the
eyes of one man as he struggles to deliverer ARV drugs to villages
in southern Malawi, Africa. He pedals his bicycle over 20 km a day
to prove local communities can battle the world's deadliest pandemic
— and win.
Hand-Held
A documentary anthology on health and homelessness, and a frank
and invaluable resrouce for anyone interested in how media and medicine
can work together to change lives.
Montaña
de Luz
Meet the children of the Montaña de Luz orphanage who are
HIV positive and a living testament to the beauty and innocence
of childhood in the face of adversity beyond their years. This documentary
paints a stirring portrait of a loving community where nothing is
truly certain but home, and where each birthday is a celebration
of dreams fulfilled and dreams to come.
Wipe
Out
Brain injury is the leading cause of death and disability
for men under the age of 35. Narrated by an Olympic gold snowboarder,
this documentary tells the story of three young men living with
permanent brain damage from head injuries while pursuing extreme
sports.
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Today the United States ranks 29th in the world for infant mortality
rates, a shocking statistic given that we spend more on health
care than any other nation. African American mothers in the
Washington, D.C. area experience a disproportionate number of
infant deaths, for example, since they live in medically underserved
communities with a shortage of primary-care givers.
Making Mothers profiles
the Family Health and Birth Center (FHBC) in northeast D.C.,
which serves the area’s primarily African American community
and which is likewise staffed by African American health-care
professionals. The FHBC provides prenatal, birth, postpartum,
gynecological and other pediatric care in a community-friendly
environment. It educates women to participate in their own
prenatal care so as to reduce the risk of preterm delivery,
the leading cause of neonatal deaths or developmental disabilities.
The film focuses on the efforts of Lisa, a midwife, who offers
expectant mothers the option of a peaceful and sensitive home-birth
experience, and Joan, a breastfeeding peer counselor, who
passes on to others her experience as a teenage mother. In
interviews, both women explain how and why they got involved
in maternal health care and offer their views on the need
for greater diversity in the field.
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