Rampant. How a City Stopped a Plague
Description
In 1981, the first case of AIDS was identified in the United States-and by the next year, the disease had traveled all the way to Sydney, Australia. Faced with a plague in the making, how did the Australian government clamp down on AIDS with such success? This program explains, reconstructing the radical three-pronged counterattack that united a strange coalition of bedfellows into an antivirus task force to be reckoned with. Tapping into networks of junkies, prostitutes, and sexually active gay men, Sydney's public health initiative-as pragmatic as it was unprecedented-encouraged the use of condoms, introduced a needle exchange for drug addicts, and created the shocking Grim Reaper advertising campaign. A useful platform for discussing matters of public health, infectious diseases, and gender discrimination.
Runtime
57 min
Subjects
- Diseases (446)
- Social medicine (64)
- Infection (258)
- Hospitals (79)
- Social policy (88)
- Health planning (100)
- Communicable diseases (311)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2010], c2007
Database
Films on Demand
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