The AIDS Epidemic AIDS: The New Lepers
After the Jeremy Paxman hosted BBC documentary "AIDS -The New Lepers", there is a locally hosted panel discussion and a phone in on AIDS in New Zealand, the research taking place and what help is available. AIDS = acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Jeremy Paxman reports on the causes and consequences of present attitudes to AIDS in Britain, where some analysts believe that by the year 1990 the disease will have killed ten thousand people and be carried by a further two million.
Primary Title
- The AIDS Epidemic
Secondary Title
- AIDS: The New Lepers
Date Broadcast
- Sunday 17 May 1987
Start Time
- 21 : 05
Finish Time
- 21 : 45
Duration
- 40:00
Channel
- TV One
Broadcaster
- Television New Zealand
Owning Organisation
- Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand
Programme Description
- Jeremy Paxman reports on the causes and consequences of present attitudes to AIDS in Britain, where some analysts believe that by the year 1990 the disease will have killed ten thousand people and be carried by a further two million.
Episode Description
- After the Jeremy Paxman hosted BBC documentary "AIDS -The New Lepers", there is a locally hosted panel discussion and a phone in on AIDS in New Zealand, the research taking place and what help is available. AIDS = acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Classification
- Not Classified
Owning Collection
- Chapman Archive
Broadcast Platform
- Television
Languages
- English
Captioning Languages
- Maori
Captions
Live Broadcast
- No
Rights Statement
- Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Notes
- VA_00638_02 contains just the local discussion segment of the programme as well.
Genres
- Documentary
Hosts
- Brett Dumbleton (Host)
- Jeremy Paxman (Presenter)
Contributors
- Patti Steeples (BBC Producer)
- BBC (Production Unit)
- Dr Rod Ellis Pegler (Infectious Disease Physician)
- Dr David Skegg (Professor of Preventive Medicine)
- Ron Lindberg (Director, New Zealand AIDS Foundation)
- Betty Kill (Manager of Health Promotion, Department of Health )
- Brett Cammell (Director)
- Mark Westmoreland (Producer)
- BCNZ (Production Unit)