videos tagged aids-hiv and women

Through her own personal struggle we see a searing portrait of Rolake Odetoyinbo, Nigerian AIDS activist, who is also someone who knows first-hand the pain of carrying HIV-AIDS -- a disease that is often kept secret from the outside world. Feb 2008. 7:20 min.

Women for Women International reports from DR Congo in concert with Anderson Cooper's piece for 60 Minutes, "War Against Women" featuring Women for Women International's program in the DR Congo. A Jan 2008 Women for Women International release. www.womenforwomen.org

THE FACTS: Every 14 seconds a child is orphaned because of war, natural disaster, poverty, or disease. Right now, there are 15 million orphans due to AIDS alone. The children often survive alone, without the nurturing they need. Many have suffered the trauma of seeing one or both parents die as a result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Veronica's Story is helping to care for these children and empower girls and women to help bring an end to the orphan crisis. This film shows Veronica's work with South Africa

What are this issues facing women with AIDS in Africa today? AIDS-HIV is destroying Africa today. "Faces of AIDS" by Tanmoy Saha, of Vanderbilt University, is the story of The Kampara Project in Uganda. 2007 film.

Fulgenzia Mpelembwa is seventy years old, and looks after twenty one kids. She lives in Iringa, Tanzania. Film from Discovering the Cost of Love Part 3.

One courageous former 15 yr. old girl-child soldier from a small village in a region of the Congo tells us of the horrors she experienced in a personal interview with Everywoman TV. She spoke formally about her experience before the UN women's annual conference, The Commission on the Status of Women - New York 2007.

Award Wining film.. its about widows of vrindavan. Today over 20,000 widows live in Vrindavan, India under poverty, illiteracy, denial of human rights, health care and suffering.

This video depicts how Burundi women crossed political parties and ethnic groups to become a unified force. Dramatically under-represented in the political forum in their country, as a unified entity Burundi women paved the way for their political participation and voices to be heard. Their solidarity enabled their concerns regarding previously ignored issues, such as female inheritance and war crimes against women, to have a much needed forum. Facilitated by UNIFEM as well as other UN and regional agen

An introduction to CAMFED by Morgan Freeman camfedinternational 5 min - Aug 2, 2007 The Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) is an international organization working to solve long-term health, economic and social issues ... all � in Africa by investing in girls' education. This short film, shot on location in the Northern Region of Ghana, provides a brief introduction to CAMFED's work. This film was produced in 2000 by David Eberts and is narrated by academy-award winning actor, Morgan Freem

Ann Cotton, an uncommon hero educating girls in Africa camfedinternational 7 min - Aug 2, 2007 Meet Ann Cotton. During a trip to Zimbabwe in 1990, Ann Cotton realized that Africa would never conquer poverty and disease unless its women were educated. She found that families that could not afford to educate all their children would give priority to boys. She knew that educated women are less likely to contract HIV/AIDS, and that they marry later and have fewer children who are healthier and more likely to