General Information

Author/Creator

Pavsek, Christopher, director.

Language

Vietnamese.

Subtitles

English

Published

United States : Lesjak, Carolyn, 2000.

Physical Description

DVD-ROM (90 min.)

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00004177

Contents/Summary

Summary

A documentary about the AIDS epidemic and market-oriented economic reforms in Vietnam. In 1986, the Vietnamese government embarked on a path of reform known as ‘doi moi’, or the new way. Free market policies were adopted, money was borrowed from the IMF, state owned industries were sold and public health and education were decimated. AIDS arrived at the same time. In 1990 the first case was detected. Increases in poverty, drug use and prostitution that accompanied ‘doi moi’, have led to a greater risk of infection. The film combines visual montages of Ho Chi Minh City which illustrate the contradictions of contemporary Vietnam with interviews with people at the greatest risk from the epidemic: destitute women in the sex trade and drug addicts.

Subjects

Genre

Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Note

Soros Documentary Fund

Library Special Collection

Soros Documentary Fund

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
DVD-ROM	OSA Film Library	FL Record 2562	Available	-	-
Digital film	OSA Film Library	FL Record 2562 (HU_OSA_00004177.mp4)	Available		Access Copy, MP4 format