Positive: Life with HIV

Positive, is a four one hour television series that focuses on the impact of AIDS   on the various communities most affected by the pandemic in the United States and Puerto Rico.   Each program deals with specific issues and encompasses a variety of people and experiences.

Program One: Community, is the opening program of the series, where members of the HIV/AIDS community share same intimate moments of their lives. They ignite our audience's appetite as they discover, and make theirs, the purpose of the series. The program serves as an      invitation to the audience to participate from their own personal frame of reference. The testimonials forecast the   emotional roller coaster ride which this program will take. It will clarify that the series will provide no easy answers, but will offer the opportunity to broaden our perspectives and widen our options. Speaking directly from the heart and from one's own frame of
reference, each segment will present a common ground, providing comfort   in diversity and difference.

Program Two: Identity, addresses what it means from an individual perspective to live with HIV/AIDS   on a day to   day basis.   How do our lives change?   How do our values and priorities shift?   Our view of the world?   What would we do differently?   How does being positive affect our jobs, our relationships, our family and community lives?   How does it affect our sexuality and the choices we make?   How does a positive diagnosis affect our finances and how do these economic changes impact on our sense of ourselves?
Program Three: Care, uses a fast paced, sharp edged, first hand commentary of a stand up comic, to identify many of the key   issues of treatment and care. The program develops with different segments that address in various creative ways issues of complementary health care; research and evaluation of treatment

options;   factors   which   govern individual care insurance, choice of treatment;   problems of securing health the high cost of medical care and the lack of coverage for      naturopathic   treatments; spiritual healing;   care provider/patient relationships; hospitalization & home care;   working the system to maximize access to health care, legal aid   and   harm reduction.
Program Four: Fighting for Our Lives, is the final program in the series. It looks at death and dying as a part of life.   It also explores   some of the many forms that activism takes   in the face of ongoing and emerging issues and concerns. In doing so, the program reveals some of the ways in which this pandemic, and the people
living within it, are reshaping our society.   The through line of this program   is that activism exists because people continue to die.   Children, sons and daughters of all age, their parents and grandparents emerge as a theme throughout the program, reminding us that this pandemic has touched all generations; guiding us to both the urgent needs and the hope for the future.

Exhibitions:
National Educational Video Festival, Oakland, CA
Gold Apple Award.
The New Festival, New York, NY
PBS stations across the USA.