[Mitai-announce] [World AIDS Day] Documentary: AIDS Warriors, Nov 30, 5-6.30PM, 6-120, FREE FOOD (fwd)

[Elan Pavlov]

*Global Poverty Initiative presents:*

*WIDE ANGLE: AIDS Warriors
*Angola's Bold Attempt to Combat the AIDS Pandemic*

Free Screening and Dinner
Location: 6-120
Time: Sunday, November 30, 5-6:30 PM*

*Synopsis: *In Sub-Saharan Africa today, AIDS is not only a vast
humanitarian tragedy, but also a dire threat to regional stability. As death
rates from AIDS exceed the rate at which teachers, doctors, and security
forces can be trained and maintained, whole nations may begin to collapse.
Perhaps the only benefit from Angola's long civil war is that the country
now has one of the lowest HIV infection rates in Southern Africa.
Strategically important because of its oil reserves, Angola is now coping
with the problems of peace. As refugees and soldiers return home and
transportation and trade resume, the spread of AIDS looms. In response to
this new enemy the government has once again rallied its military forces.
WIDE ANGLE explores the role of the military, the only functioning arm of
the state, in its bold attempt to combat the AIDS pandemic. The challenges
it faces offer an arresting portrait of a nation at a crucial moment in
history. (PBS)

*FOOD WILL BE PROVIDED!

*= World AIDS Day 2008 =