AIDSvideos.org: Free HIV/AIDS Videos in Many Languages
Our mission is to prevent the spread of
HIV and to help those affected by making all the world's HIV/AIDS
prevention education videos in
all the world's languages available for free. You can stream the
videos from YouTube
or download higher quality versions from the Internet
Archive.
HIV/AIDS Introductory
Videos From AIDSvideos.org
This is a scientifically and medically accurate HIV/AIDS
curriculum developed with Becky
Kuhn, M.D. of Global
Lifeworks. Dr. Kuhn is a physician who specializes in HIV/AIDS.
- Introduction to HIV and AIDS: What You
Need to Know (17 min): Stream
or Download
Critical basic information about HIV, how it
spreads, and how to protect yourself and others.
- A Brief Introduction to
HIV
and AIDS: What You Need to Know (8 min): Stream or Download
Shorter version focusing on the most critical information.
- Preventing Sexual
Transmission of HIV:
What You Need to Know (6 min 25s): Stream or Download
Brief message explaining how to avoid contracting or transmission of
HIV through sexual contact.
- Preventing the Spread of
HIV Through
Injection Drug Use (3
min 36s): Stream
or Download
Brief message for injection drug users about how to avoid contracting
HIV.
- HIV Prevention for Men
Who Have Sex With
Men (MSM) (4
min): Stream
or Download
Brief message for MSM about how to avoid contracting
HIV.
- Did I Just Contract HIV? Symptoms of
Primary HIV Infection (4 min 49
sec): Stream
or Download
If you experience the symptoms of primary HIV infection, see your
doctor
and request immediate HIV testing.
- What's the Risk That I Have Contracted HIV? (4
min 43
sec): Stream or Download
There's only one way to know for sure: get tested!
- Why EVERY Person Should Be Tested for
HIV
When They Visit the Doctor (5 min): Stream
or Download
US Centers for Disease Control recommend that all people age 13-64 be
tested for HIV when they visit the doctor.
- Top Ten Myths About HIV/AIDS (8
min 55 sec): Stream
or Download
Ten common myths about HIV/AIDS debunked.
- Ten More Myths About HIV/AIDS (12
min): Stream
or Download
- Crystal Methamphetamine and HIV: The
Connection
(8 min 30 sec): Stream
or Download
Use of crystal methamphetamine is
leading to risky sexual behavor and contributing to the spread of HIV.
- Is HIV a Death Sentence?
(5 min): Stream or Download
Avoid contracting HIV if you're HIV-, but don't despair if you're HIV+.
- Prevention for Positives
(8 min 30 sec): Stream or Download
How HIV positive people can help prevent the
further spread of HIV.
- Better Adherence for a Better Life (10
min 13 sec): Stream
or Download
Why it's so important for HIV positive people to take their
antiretroviral medications (ARVs) at the prescribed dosages on the
prescribed schedules.
- Ending Gender Inequality: A Key to
Stopping HIV (8 min): Stream or Download
Gender inequality is a key driver in the spread of HIV. Ending it is a
key to stopping the spread of HIV.
- Beyond ABC: Newer Approaches to
Preventing
HIV/AIDS (9 min 20 sec): Stream
or Download
Discusses SAVE and DEF models and the use of male circumcision.
- Pregnant HIV positive mothers can reduce the
risk that their child will contract HIV. These videos discuss
techniques appropriate for developed countries where antiretroviral
medications, formula, and clean water are readily available and for
developing nations where they often are not.
- I Have HIV. Can I Have
Children and Keep My Partner Safer? (4 min 12 sec): Stream
or Download
- Preventing
Mother-to-Child
Transmission of HIV in Developed Countries (12 min): Stream
or Download
- Preventing
Mother-to-Child
Transmission of HIV in Developing Countries (11 min 28 sec): Stream
or Download
- I'm Over Fifty. Do I Need to
Worry About HIV?
(7 min): Stream or Download
Older people have many of the same risk factors, yet both they and
their doctors often underestimate their risk.
- Good hygiene is important to prevent people with weakened immune
systems (such as those with HIV and AIDS) from contracting secondary
infections from caregivers and others. These videos discuss basic
hygiene techniques.
- Wash Your Hands To Protect
Yourselves and Others
- Preventing Waterborne Illnesses, a
Major
Cause of Death in Developing Countries (4 min): Stream
or Download
Other videos we're planning: How to Clean a
Syringe or Needle Using
Bleach; How to Use a Condom Correctly; HIV Tests Explained; and
translations into
Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, and Greek. Email
us your ideas!
Interviews About HIV/AIDS
Cass Mann is one of the world's longest-term
HIV-positive diagnosed gay men, now in his third decade of living with
HIV, and the founder of UK's only gay men's HIV/AIDS charity Positively
Healthy, which provides HIV services including education, support, and
peer counselling. In this series of intervews Cass shares his thoughts
on many of the social, cultural, and psychological issues related to
HIV/AIDS.
- A Gay Man Speaks Out on
HIV and Sex Today (16:50): Stream
or Download
- A Gay Man Speaks Out on
Partying, Party and Club Drugs, and HIV (8:31): Stream
or Download
- Is it an Open Relationship
or an Open Grave? (4:17): Stream
or Download
- A Gay Man Speaks Out: Is
Oral Sex Safe Sex? (4:54): Stream
or Download
- Sexual Alternatives: Can
We Have Sex With NO Risk of HIV Transmission? (6:54): Stream
or Download
- Avoid the Unconscious
Lifestyle! Wake Up! (7:21): Stream
or Download
- The Cult of Youth in the
Gay Community: Is There Life After 40? (5:10): Stream
or Download
- How Internet Sex-on-Demand
Contributes to the Spread of HIV (3:33): Stream
or Download
- How Circuit Parties
Contribute to the Spread of HIV (3:36): Stream
or Download
- Back Rooms and Dark Rooms:
HIV Lurks Within! (4:01): Stream
or Download
- Bug Chasing: Is It Real?
(3:39): Stream
or Download
- AIDS Dementia: A Good
Reason to Stay HIV Negative! (6:46): Stream
or Download
- "If I Test HIV Positive,
I'm Going to Commit Suicide!" (Don't!) (10:03): Stream
or Download
- HIV Stigma (8:05): Stream
or Download
- Keeping Healthy While HIV
Positive (11:14): Stream
or Download
- Disclosure of HIV Status:
Would You Rather Risk a Rejection or a Criminal Prosecution?
(7:57): Stream
or Download
- Now That We Have
Antiretroviral Drugs (ARV or HAART), Does HIV Still Matter?
(4:17): Stream
or Download
- The Mission and History of
Positively Healthy, an HIV Not-for-Profit Charity (6:21): Stream
or Download
Danny West is a trainer, coach, and leadership
consultant who has been living with HIV for the past 24 years. He
remains healthy today. In these interviews he shares his thoughts on
building a new life after an HIV+ diagnosis.
Phil Johnson, M.D., an AIDS clinician,
discusses HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention and the cultural and
social issues raised by HIV:
- HIV Basics: Prevention,
Testing,
Treatment, and Adherence (30 min 30 sec): Stream
or Download
- The Importance of
Maintaining Good Health
to Fight HIV Infection (3 min 10 sec): Stream
or Download
- The Importance of Condom
Compliance
(6 min 42 sec): Stream
or Download
- How Other STDs Increase
the Risk of HIV
Transmission (2 min): Stream
or Download
- Condoms, Testing,
Monogamy, and Honesty
(2 min 40 sec): Stream
or Download
- HIV/AIDS Prevention
Efforts Around the
World (6 min 30 sec): Stream
or Download
- Injection Drug Use and HIV
Prevention
(4 min 28 sec): Stream
or Download
- HIV/AIDS in the Household (2
min
32 sec): Stream
or Download
- How Friends and Family Can
Support HIV and
AIDS Patients (1 min 32 sec): Stream
or Download
- Abstinence, Fidelity,
Cultural Issues, and
Cultural Change (6 min 15 sec): Stream
or Download
- The Problem of HIV Stigma
(2 min): Stream
or Download
- History of the Definition
of AIDS and Its
Evolution Over Time (5 min 26 sec): Stream
or Download
- Challenges in
Antiretroviral
Therapy (8 min 47 sec): Stream
or Download
Becky Kuhn, M.D.
discusses some of the life issues faced by people who are HIV+:
- What Life Factors
Contribute to Contracting and Transmitting HIV? (6 min) Stream
or Download
- What Prevents Patients
from
Taking ARVs as Prescribed? (3 min 40 sec) Stream
or Download
Other Notable Prevention Education Videos
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