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AIDS Quarterly, The; Question of Civil Rights, A; What Is A Family?; AIDS and the Second Sex
Part of The AIDS Quarterly/The Health Quarterly.
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- Series
- AIDS Quarterly, The
- Program
- Question of Civil Rights, A; What Is A Family?; AIDS and the Second Sex
- Program Number
103
- Series Description
This news and documentary series of magazine format shows is targeted to reach the people who are facing crucial decisions about the AIDS epidemic. The program addresses public policy, scientific, legislative, service, research, and community decisions related to AIDS. Series release date: 2/1989
- Program Description
The expanding impact of the AIDS epidemic on women who have contracted the disease through heterosexual transmission and on minority communities is explored in depth in the third edition of "The AIDS Quarterly."
Women are the fastest growing group of people with AIDS; however their symptoms are often misdiagnosed and their treatment delayed because doctors seldom suspect the presence of the disease. Among minorities, new cases of AIDS are reported at a rate six times greater than that among white people. At the same time, minority access to health care is limited, at best, and federal money earmarked for AIDS programs is not reaching minority communities devastated by the disease.
The story of one woman's courage, a single court case that changes the definition of the family, and the familiar question of civil rights.
- Duration
00:59:09
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Health and Exercise
- Medicine
- Social Issues
- Social Issues - Misogyny
- News and Current Events
- Creators
- Blake, Jeanne (Series Producer)
- Jennings, Peter (Host)
- Moral, Mercedes Del (Director)
- Citation
- Chicago: “AIDS Quarterly, The; Question of Civil Rights, A; What Is A Family?; AIDS and the Second Sex,” GBH Archives, accessed September 7, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_F0134575EDA144DC8DF618ACEA0EAA76.
- MLA: “AIDS Quarterly, The; Question of Civil Rights, A; What Is A Family?; AIDS and the Second Sex.” GBH Archives. Web. September 7, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_F0134575EDA144DC8DF618ACEA0EAA76>.
- APA: AIDS Quarterly, The; Question of Civil Rights, A; What Is A Family?; AIDS and the Second Sex. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_F0134575EDA144DC8DF618ACEA0EAA76