With MY POSITIVE LIFE, Mark Strombach and Salwa Amin give a voice and face to people who have been living with HIV/AIDS for decades, in the first ever film on the subject. Six men and one woman aged between 60 and 72 each tell their own stories: underlying them is the common tale of a long life with the HI-virus. In a thoughtful, astute, sometimes bawdy and amusing manner, the protagonists recall the early days of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, their fears, and the countless changes in their lives, professions, and financial situations.

Department of Gracias a Dios, Moskitia Region, Honduras. Children death rate is among the highest in Latin America...

Mothers. Women who are locked in an ancestral dimension: they have to give birth to be accepted by the society.

The northern hemisphere seems virtually oblivious to the AIDS epidemic raging in South Africa, where one out of every five people are HIV positive and three million children have been orphaned by AIDS. The film focuses on two child-headed households, i.e., families where the parents' death due to AIDS has forced older children to assume responsibility for their own and their younger siblings’ physical and emotional welfare.

"NOTHING IS LOST" Is a documentary film of 26 mn recalling hard realities of the living conditions of the people infected and assigned by the HIV AIDS and STI to Burkina Faso. It depicts the problems of this assumption of responsibility and strongly implies the agents of stakes and the communities: nuns and usual. Through this film, associations and ONG working in the field show the strategies used for the best dealt with which are of order (medical, psychological, spiritual, food support and support in income-generating activities). The PVVIH testify with face discovered and unconstrained.

Diseases make people frightened, but love makes people brave. Besides documenting the Taiwan government's efforts on AIDS prevention, the film furthers our understanding of AIDS through the patients' personal sharing. In turn, fear and indifference towards AIDS may be dissolved. Let's pass forward our love through the gesture of embrace. For love, we learn to treasure our future.

This is the first documentary which records that Taiwan NGO accepts AIDS friends. It is called "Being Together." Through the actual care and the acceptance of aids halfway houses and civic groups for AIDS patients, the public will have a correct understanding about AIDS and remove their fear and discrimination towards AIDS. In addition, patients will know that they are not alone because we are always together.

The battle of sexes deals with the relationship between men and women, showing the socio-cultural and economic factors concerning the transmission of HIV. The sub context talks about the eternal misunderstanding between the two sexes which badly communicates and rejects the cause of the spreading of the disease.

Aids Palaver treats of HIV, which is always delicate in the countryside as well as in town: a divine curse, a shameful disease that comes from elsewhere…. The beliefs and reactions of the people in the film evoke their fear of the disease and their reluctance to be tested.

In 2004, 2.3 million people died of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, the means to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS and to care for people living with HIV/AIDS are know. Why is the disease continuing to take such a toll on the poorer populations? The answer lies in awareness, accessibility and affordability. The World Health Organization, UNAIDS and their partners have set a specific goal of placing 3 million people livint with HIV/AIDS on antiretroviral treatment by the end of the year 2005.

A matter of rubber illustrates the reluctance and taboo around the use of condom: lost of sensation, lack of trust, difficulty of use, "omission", shame, religious considerations, prejudice…

An incessant ping-pong between men and women, youth and elders, reveals that the use of the rubber is still far to be unanimous.