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The Gift is a 2003 documentary film by filmmaker Louise Hogarth documenting the phenomenon of deliberate HIV infection; such practices are known colloquially as bugchasing, for seeking and providing voluntary HIV infection, respectively.
A category for films (theatrical and television) in which AIDS or HIV is a significant plot element or which include one or more characters with AIDS or HIV. Subcategories This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
5B is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Dan Krauss and Paul Haggis about the efforts of a group of nurses and caregivers who opened the first AIDS ward in the world at San Francisco General Hospital and changed the way patients were cared for [1] in the 1980s AIDS epidemic.
Women can transmit the HIV/AIDS virus to other women through sexual intercourse. [14] However, the U.S. does not statistically categorize HIV/AIDS transmission in forms other than heterosexual, intravenous drug, or indefinable transmission. [3] Due to lack of research, statistics on women-to-women transmission of HIV is unknown. [15]
Seeds of Hope: HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia; The Self-Destruction of Gia; The Sensei; Sex Positive; Silence = Death (film) Silverlake Life: The View from Here; Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story; State of Denial (film) Straight Outta Compton (film)
"Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story was one of a myriad of early 1990s TV movies centering around the AIDS issue. Perhaps if it had been made five years earlier, and perhaps if it didn't have its characters speaking fluent pop profundities, Something to Live For might have been one of the truly important made-for-TV AIDS sagas."
In "Killing All the Right People", Kendall is a young gay man with AIDS who asks the women to design his funeral. 1987: The Equalizer: CBS: Mickey Robertson: Corey Carrier: Six-year-old boy with AIDS is protected from harassment from his neighbors by the titular character. 1988: Go Toward the Light: CBS: Ben Madison: Joshua Harris
Longtime Companion is a 1989 American romantic drama film directed by Norman René and starring Bruce Davison, Campbell Scott, Patrick Cassidy, and Mary-Louise Parker.The first wide-release theatrical film to deal with the subject of AIDS, the film takes its title from the euphemism The New York Times used during the 1980s to describe the surviving same-sex partner of someone who had died of AIDS.