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Produced by Making WAVES Production (156 Glebe Ave., Ottawa ON K1S 2C5) in collaboration with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), 1996. To be broadcast on TVOntario Apr. 1, 1997, midnight. Sale ($100) and rental ($40) copies of the video are available, across Canada, from IDERA Films at 200-2678 W Broadway, Vancouver BC; tel. 604 732-1496; fax 604 738-8400; idera@web.net; website http://www.vcn.bc.ca/idera.
Overall rating: Good
Strengths: Relevant topic; illustrative footage of prevention
activities; insightful interviews and narration
Weaknesses: Strongly optimistic bias
Audience: Viewers wanting to understand how most of the people
with HIV and AIDS in the world live and how one
prevention program operates in this context
In the cities of southern Africa, HIV seroprevalence rates among pregnant women are up to 35%.(f.1) One of the programs that tries to address...