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How to Survive a Plague—HIV Education Video Assignment

The documentary video you will view for part of this assignment covers the HIV epidemic from about the years 1987- 1996. It highlights the activism that led to the development of drug treatments to prolong life. It also shows personal stories of the activists. DISCLOSURE–you will see and hear the following: AIDS patients, homosexuals (sometimes engaged in kissing), cursing and other derogatory language and words, a protest inside of a church. Please suspend any judgments you have until after you see the entire video. The video does start loudly, but then settles down.

1. FIRST, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website to find the following information.https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/default.html Search in the HIV Basics section. Answer in brief one sentence responses.

List the ways HIV is transmitted (spread from person-to-person).

List the prevention methods for these 5 categories—sexual transmission, IV drug use, mother-to-child transmission, protecting others when you’re HIV-positive, other prevention methods.

What is PrEP vs. PEP? In what situations are these used?

NOW, watch the video. Visit https://libguides.grossmont.edu/media/streaming-videos, click on the Swank database link at the right, log-in with your usual Grossmont-Cuyamaca info and search for the video How to Survive a Plague. Video length is 1hr 49min.

2. List at least two of the activist organizations that were formed during this time period.

3. What types of discrimination could HIV+ individuals face during the time period covered in the documentary? Make sure at least one example is related to the healthcare setting.

4. What are some of the symptoms of AIDS described in the documentary?

5. Why did the activist movement develop around this issue?

6. What was the first drug developed for treatment of HIV infection, and what was the cost of it?

7. After the first drug, the most effective treatments came later in the form of protease inhibitors. How do the protease inhibitor drugs work to control the virus?

8. Was this documentary beneficial to view? In what ways was it, or wasn’t it beneficial?

Thank you for your open mind and attention during this video!