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ACT UP protest

Description: AIDS activist organization, ACT-UP Boston, protests outside Harvard Medical School, alleging unethical practices in limiting availability of experimental drug treatments.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/07/1988

AIDS

Description: HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS TRY TO ADDRESS ONSLAUGHT OF BOSTON AIDS CASES
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/30/1987

AIDS & FREE NEEDLES

Description: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS WANT FREE NEEDLES PROGRAM TO CURB AIDS SPREAD IN INTRAVENOUS DRUG USERS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/23/1987

AIDS AND CATHOLICS

Description: ATTITUDE OF ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH ON AIDS VICTIMS AND HOMOSEXUALITY. MASS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/20/1987

AIDS AND DETOX CENTERS

Description: LACK OF DETOX CENTERS AND TREATMENT FOR AIDS VICTIMS WHO ARE DRUG ADDICTS. MAKING ADDICTS AWARE OF AIDS SPREAD BY NEEDLE SHARING.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/23/1987

AIDS EDUCATION IN PRISON

Description: ROBERT RUFO AND OTHER SHERIFFS ENDORSE AIDS EDUCATION FOR PRISON INMATES.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/26/1987

AIDS FILM

Description: AIDS FILM USED IN BOSTON SCHOOLS, Q+A AT MADISON PARK HIGH
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/03/1987

AIDS PSAs

Description: Public service announcements, using "Big Chill"-like theme, aimed at teens warning of AIDS.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/18/1987

AIDS TEST

Description: DELUGE OF REQUESTS FOR AIDS BLOOD TEST, BOOKING MONTHS IN ADVANCE
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/07/1987

AIDS TESTING FOR INSURANCE

Description: CONFIDENTIALITY IN AIDS TESTING A BIG ISSUE FOR INSURANCE COMPANIES. Michael Dukakis, Paula Gold, Liberty Mutual.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/09/1987

AIDS TESTING IN PRISON

Description: WHAT TO DO ABOUT AIDS TESTING IN PRISON. ROBERT RUFO MULLS IT OVER
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/16/1987

AIDS activists beg for condom policy

Description: Larry Kessler and other AIDS activists beg governor to promote condom use actively. Philip Johnston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/07/1990

AIDS activists vs. Burroughs-Wellcome

Description: AIDS activists demand information on AZT experimental drug from Burroughs-Wellcome & other manufacturers."Trade Secrets" bill. AIDS drug research lab. Pills counted. Patients in hospital beds.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/20/1990

AIDS activists vs. Catholic Church

Description: AIDS activists protest against the Catholic Church for its intolerance of gays and prohibition of condom use. ACTUP demonstration.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/02/1991

AIDS and Medicaid

Description: Ray Vadnais who has AIDS must stay in a hospital to be eligible for Medicaid. Nursing homes will not accept him and he is not ready for a hospice. Blood pressure being taken.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/23/1990

AIDS and prisoner rights

Description: Inmates with AIDS segregated for medical reasons are denied certain rights due general prison population. Exterior Shattuck Hospital.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/14/1989

AIDS and women

Description: Local conference looks at increase of AIDS among women. Female intravenous drug user with needle tracks on arms.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/30/1990

AIDS as campaign issue

Description: AIDS patient says presidential candidates have no idea how important fighting his disease is and show no compassion for the issue in debate and speeches.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/30/1988

AIDS babies

Description: 39 children have died of AIDS in state; 38 more have the disease now; more carry the virus not yet with symptoms. Pediatrician says survival is about six years. Babies in incubator at BCH. Infant heart monitor.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/28/1990

AIDS conference

Description: Boston conference on AIDS looks at spread of the disease in New England. Transmission now more common among needle users than gays. Mass. lauded for testing & education. Protesters at Dukakis' house.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/02/1988

AIDS consciousness raising at Digital

Description: Digital runs program to enlighten employees about AIDS in the workplace.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/27/1990

AIDS curriculum

Description: Boston Archdiocese objects to AIDS curriculum taught in public schools. East Boston High School entrance and students in front. Classroom.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/24/1989

AIDS day

Description: AIDS day is observed by art galleries, and by Catholic Church with its AIDS ministry. Cardinal Bernard Law stands pat against condoms. Pieces of memorial quilt.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/01/1989

AIDS dementia

Description: Description of AIDS related dementia through interviews with several men who have it and clinicians treating them. Man performing hand - eye coordination test. AZT pills being counted.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/29/1990

AIDS drug clinical trial

Description: Man with AIDS undergoes experimental treatment (CD4) at Mass. General Hospital. Thus far, he suffers no poor side effects. Nurse puts blood pressure cuff on patient. Clinical trial.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/29/1988

AIDS drug conference

Description: At AIDS drug conference, patients discuss their willingness or unwillingness to try experimental treatments for the disease.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/25/1988

AIDS education at Emerson Hospital

Description: Emerson Hospital in Concord initiates AIDS support system: mostly education, referral, counseling, rather than treatment.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/20/1987

AIDS healing service

Description: Healing service offers comfort to people with AIDS and their friends and families. People in church pews. Mass. Laying on of hands.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/15/1989

AIDS in Minorities

Description: Meg Vaillancourt reports that a disproportionate number of African Americans have been infected with the HIV/AIDS virus. Vaillancourt reports that higher rates of transmission in the African American community are due to behavioral factors. Vaillancourt analyzes the differences in AIDS transmission between the white community and the African American community. Footage of Denise Cartier-Bennia giving a talk on educating people about AIDS in the African American community. Vaillancourt quotes statistics concerning HIV/AIDS infection rates. Report is accompanied by footage of African American residents of Roxbury and footage from interviews with people on the street.
1:00:07: Visual: A reporter on conducts interviews with African American men and women. An African American man says that he is "scared to death." An African American woman says that she doesn't know if "it is stronger on the white end or if it's stronger on the black end." Another African American man at Downtown Crossing says that no African American stars have died of AIDS; that he fears the development of an"unwarranted stigma" on the African American community due to AIDS. Shots of African Americans walking on a commercial street. Meg Vaillancourt reports that a disproportionate number of African Americans have been diagnosed with AIDS in the US. V: A chart list statistics on screen. The statistics read that 25% of AIDS victims are African American. Vaillancourt reports that African Americans represent 12% of the population. Shot of an African American woman with her back to the camera. Statistics read that African American women are 13 times more likely to get AIDS than white women; that Hispanic women are 11 times more likely to get AIDS than white women. Shots of an African American infant being examined by a white female doctor. Statistics read that 82% of infants with AIDS are African American; that 91% of infants with AIDS are non-white. Footage of Denise Cartier-Bennia (professor) saying that AIDS is affecting whole families in the African American community. Shot of a group of African Americans waiting for public transportation. Vaillancourt reports that the mode of transmission for AIDS is different in African American and white communities. V: Statistics read that homosexual/bisexual AIDS patients are 73%white, 16% African American and 11% Hispanic. Statistics read that heterosexual AIDS patients are 50% African American, 25% Hispanic and 25% white. Footage of Cartier-Bennia speaking. Shots of a group of African American teenagers crossing an urban street; of a drug user preparing a dose of heroin. Vaillancourt reports that Cartier-Bennia has studied the factors contributing to the high rate of AIDS in the African American community. V: Statistics read that African American women are 5 times more likely to get AIDS from contact with a drug user than from contact with a bisexual man. Shot of a group of African Americans boarding an MBTA bus. Vaillancourt reports that the immigration of infected immigrants from Haiti and Africa may be escalating the problem. V: Shots of military recruits laying down barbed wire in a field. Statistics read that 0.9 out of 1000 white military recruits test positive for the AIDS antibody; that 3.9 out of 1000 African American military recruits test positive for the AIDS antibody. Footage of Cartier-Bennia talking about the appearance of the AIDS antibody in military recruits. Cartier-Bennia says that one out of every 250 recruits was infected; that 10% to 30% of these recruits will eventually develop AIDS. Cartier-Bennia says that the African American community is in a "precarious position." Vaillancourt reports from a street corner. Groups of African Americans wait for public transportation across the street. Vaillancourt notes that AIDS is not an African American disease; that behavior creates the risk of transmission, not race. V: Footage of Cartier-Bennia saying that risky behavior leads to aids; that knowledge may be the most effective weapon against AIDS; that African American and Hispanic politicians have been silent on the subject of AIDS and the minority community. Shot of a group of African Americans boarding an MBTA bus. Footage of Cartier-Benia talking about the unwillingness of African American churches to discuss AIDS. Shot of an African American man crossing a street. Footage of Cartier-Bennia saying that AIDS is another problem which needs to be tackled by minority communities if they want to survive into the year 2000. Shots of African American children; of African Americans on the street; of African Americans waiting for public transportation.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/17/1987

AIDS in prison

Description: Inmates with AIDS get inadequate medical attention & pose health threat to others in prison. Robert Rufo says county jail infirmary not equipped to treat communicable diseases.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/25/1988

AIDS insurance

Description: Hearing on confidentiality issue in AIDS testing by insurance companies. James Shannon, Paula Gold, Roger Singer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/04/1987

AIDS nurse Connie Hagerty

Description: Nurse Connie Hagerty runs adult AIDS program at Boston City Hospital. Weighs and talks with patient; looks at paperwork.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/22/1989

AIDS prevention plan

Description: Philip Johnston talks about promoting condom use to protect against AIDS. State will fund PSAs for safe sex. Larry Kessler fears campaign will not be aggressive enough.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/12/1990

AIDS projections and AP

Description: AIDS projections for Boston exceed capacity of health facilities. Experimental drug for pneumonia AP (aerosolized pentamidine) withheld at Mass General. Protesters lie on sidewalk. Fenway Community Health Center.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/25/1988

AIDS quilt

Description: AIDS quilt, result of The Names Project, is displayed in Boston. Sections made by friends and relatives to commemorate people who died of AIDS.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/16/1988

AIDS quilt additions

Description: AIDS quilt is on display at MIT athletic center. Visitors comment on its immenseness and personalness.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/21/1990

AIDS quilt returns

Description: Many people get together to stitch new panels in memory of loved ones to add to AIDS quilt when it returns to Boston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/20/1990

AIDS vaccine research

Description: Local biotechnology firm does research on developing AIDS vaccine by injecting the virus into smallpox vaccine. Good lab footage, technicians. Genetic engineering.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/10/1989

AIDS.

Description: AIDS. Visuals and interview. Footage shot 7/30/1982.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/13/1982

AIDS: year in review

Description: Review of AIDS-related issues and developments during 1988: spread of the disease and progress in fighting it.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/29/1988

Albert Gore in New Hampshire

Description: Summary of Albert Gore's positions on taxes, defense spending, trade, AIDS, education. He wants to get to "specifics" from other candidates but does not state them himself.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/03/1987

Alive with AIDS

Description: "Alive with AIDS," a theatrical presentation at Club Cabaret of personal experiences with AIDS.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/07/1989

Benefit for AIDS research

Description: Raquel Welch & Litte Richard appear at local benefit for AIDS research. Need for more private fundraising initiatives. Presidential candidates state their positions on the problem.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/02/1987

Boston City Hospital

Description: The patient population of Boston City Hospital includes non-English speaking immigrants, homeless families, drug addicts, persons with AIDS, extremely aged people, all of whose health care and social welfare needs are great. How the staff, facilities and medical support infrastructure minister to them.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/16/1989

Bruce Babbitt and AIDS policy

Description: Bruce Babbitt talks about AIDS as a major issue for presidential campaign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/14/1987

Candidates on AIDS testing

Description: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ON MANDATORY AIDS TESTING. MICHAEL DUKAKIS SAYS "NO SUCH THING AS SAFE SEX." BUSH, BIDEN, JACKSON, KEMP.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/11/1987

Catholics, condoms, AIDS

Description: Catholic Church disapproves condom as method of protection from AIDS transmission. Larry Kessler of AIDS Action Committee, himself Catholic, disagrees.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/14/1987

Children with AIDS

Description: Growing problem of children contracting AIDS … anticipated need for more foster care. Congressional report recommends increased funding for education & treatment. Dr. George Lamb. Babies in hospital.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/14/1987

City Council passes needle plan

Description: Boston City Council votes to accept needle exchange plan to reduce transmission of AIDS. Dapper O'Neil creates a fuss. Bruce Bolling, David Scondras, Ray Flynn. Drug paraphernalia, shooting up.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/27/1988

DDI

Description: Experimental drug DDI is tried on AIDS patients at Boston City Hospital. Doctor examining man with AIDS.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/03/1989