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FRONTLINE / AIDS Quarterly Special Report; Born in Africa
Part of Frontline. Part of The AIDS Quarterly/The Health Quarterly.
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- Series
- FRONTLINE / AIDS Quarterly Special Report
- Program
- Born in Africa
- Program Number
809
- Series Description
FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world. Since 1983, FRONTLINE has served as PBS's flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," FRONTLINE's stature is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience.
- Program Description
A FRONTLINE/AIDS Quarterly Special Program, "Born in Africa" The AIDS virus has existed in Africa for, some say, 100 years... why has it exploded into the population now? The answer is in a tragic conflation of political, economic and socio-cultural factors. The future of the continent is at stake as AIDS devastates entire segments of the population in central and East Africa.
Philly Bongoley Lutaaya was a celebrated singer/musician from Uganda who died of AIDS in December 1989. But he died a national hero because he gave his nation new hope in battling the devastation of the disease. This FRONTLINE/AIDS Quarterly special, narrated by Peter Jennings, chronicles Philly Lutaaya's remarkable last year of life as he traveled across Uganda in a crusade to help stop the spread of AIDS, even as the disease ravaged his body.
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Health and Exercise
- Queer Affairs
- Medicine
- Social Issues
- Creators
- Jennings, Peter (Narrator)
- Zaritsky, John (Director)
- Storring, Virginia (Producer)
- Lyman, Will (Narrator)
- Fanning, David (Executive Producer)
- Lutaaya, Philly Bongoley (Musician)
- Citation
- Chicago: “FRONTLINE / AIDS Quarterly Special Report; Born in Africa,” GBH Archives, accessed April 23, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_5C6CE7D3907B4DD19C6EF75D43FF5157.
- MLA: “FRONTLINE / AIDS Quarterly Special Report; Born in Africa.” GBH Archives. Web. April 23, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_5C6CE7D3907B4DD19C6EF75D43FF5157>.
- APA: FRONTLINE / AIDS Quarterly Special Report; Born in Africa. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_5C6CE7D3907B4DD19C6EF75D43FF5157