AIDS: What Everyone Needs to Know

Year Published: 1987

Complete Record: Reflects the changing profile of the at-risk population for AIDS. Interviews a mother whose baby was born infected with HIV, sexual partners of IV drug abusers, teens, African-Americans, and Hispanic Americans. Includes a new section about the AIDS antibody test, the animated explanation of the immune system and how HIV disables it. Viewers learn how the AIDS virus destroys the immune system and how that lays the body open to other diseases, common and exotic. There is a discussion of symptoms, diagnosis, how AIDS is and is not transmitted, the growing danger to the general population, and how to protect oneself. Made in cooperation with the UCLA AIDS Center.