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PSI and Link TV Premiere Half-Hour Documentary Showcasing Innovative Global HIV Prevention Programs
By StudentFilmmakers.com
posted Jul 27, 2011, 19:06
PSI Ambassador and Actor Debra Messing Narrates TV & Online Special ViewChange: HIV Prevention � Looking Back and Moving Forward
PSI Ambassador and Actor Debra Messing Narrates TV & Online Special
ViewChange: HIV Prevention – Looking Back and Moving Forward
(San Francisco) Innovative HIV prevention programs – including a peer
education program from hair stylists in Zimbabwe and a media campaign promoting
male circumcision in Africa – are contributing to a decrease in the global
rate of new HIV infections 30 years after the first cases of HIV were confirmed
by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These and other stories
of effective programs on the ground in developing nations are showcased in a
new TV documentary, ViewChange: HIV Prevention – Looking Back and Moving
Forward, that premiered online today from independent non-profit broadcaster
Link TV's ViewChange project and international global health organization PSI
(Population Services International). Debra Messing, actor and PSI ambassador,
narrates the half-hour documentary, which also airs on Link TV on Friday, July
29, with a repeat broadcast on Tuesday, August 2.
The show, which was produced to commemorate a key milestone in the HIV epidemic,
showcases some of the effective prevention programs that are contributing to
progress in the global rate of new HIV infections; according to UNAIDS' "AIDS
at 30: Nations at a Crossroads" report, new HIV infections declined by
25 percent between 2001 and 2009, although more than 30 million people have
died of AIDS-related causes over the last three decades. UNAIDS credits both
treatment and prevention to global progress in HIV.
PSI's work in HIV prevention, which began in 1988, includes programs in more
than 60 countries around the world. In 2010, PSI estimates that its programs
directly prevented 186,143 new HIV infections.
The half-hour documentary special is available for viewing and downloading
online at www.psi.org and www.ViewChange.org,
and it will broadcast on Link TV on Friday, July 29 (7 p.m. EDT) and again on
Tuesday, August 2 (11 p.m. EDT) on DIRECTV Channel 375 and Dish Network Channel
9410.
Resources:
http://www.psi.org
http://www.viewchange.org
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