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. Watch our new public service announcement "DON'T."

English 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 (11 min 14 sec): Stream or Download
  Learn the risk of HIV transmission for needle sharing and various sexual practices.
• Did I Just Contract HIV? Symptoms of Primary HIV Infection (4 min 49 sec): Stream or Download
• Do I Have AIDS? Symptoms of AIDS (6 min 58 sec): Stream or Download
  If you experience the symptoms of primary HIV infection or AIDS, see your doctor and request immediate HIV testing.
• The Top Ten Questions About HIV Tests (13 min 59 sec): Stream or Download
  What are false positives, false negatives, and the window period? How accurate are the tests? When will I know whether I'm HIV negative for sure? Can I be tested for free without giving my name? If I'm HIV+, does that mean I'm going to die?
• The Top Ten Reasons to Take an HIV Test (10 min 2 sec): Stream or Download
  Why you should take an HIV test now or the next time you visit the doctor.
• 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
  • • Developed World (6 min): Stream or Download
    • Developing World (5 min): Stream or Download
  • 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; 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.

• My Journey With HIV/AIDS (7:10): Stream or Download
• Things to Think About Before Being Tested for HIV (3:12): Stream or Download
• HIV Raises Society's Taboos (1:13): Stream or Download
• How Antiretroviral Medications (ARVs) Keep Me Healthy (1:29): Stream or Download
• Managing Antiretroviral (ARV) Side Effects (2:00): Stream or Download
• Even in the Age of ARVs, HIV/AIDS Still Matters (2:11): Stream or Download
• Providing Leadership in the Fight Against HIV (2:17): Stream or Download
• Ways to Get Involved in the Fight Against HIV (2:11): Stream or Download
• Coaching People Living with HIV (2:21): Stream or Download
• Living Positively with HIV and Keeping Yourself Healthy (2:27): Stream or Download
• Why I Do HIV/AIDS Prevention Education (1:08): Stream or Download
• HIV/AIDS Travel Restrictions: Can You Get a Visa? (1:23): Stream or Download
• HIV/AIDS in the United Kingdom (1:33): Stream or Download

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
  

Public Service Announcements from AIDSvideos.org

• New! "DON'T" PSA (30 sec): Stream or Download
  "Uses stark white text on a black background to grab the user's attention with a series of paradoxical, ridiculous statements, then finishes with a conventional HIV/AIDS awareness message.
  

Other Notable Prevention Education Videos

• How to Use a Condom
• How to put on a condom correctly!
  

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