Searching for Hawa's secret [videorecording] / produced by the National Film Board of Canada

Published:: New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1999.
Physical Description:: 1 videocassette (47 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Additional Creators:: National Film Board of Canada and First Run/Icarus Films

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Language Note:

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Summary:

Hawa Chelangat is a 37-year old prostitute who supports her five children through commercial sex. She met Frank Plummer, a Canadian microbiologist in a grim shantytown outside Nairobi. In 1993 Plummer discovered that among the hundreds of women who came to his clinic, a small percentage of them, like Hawa, did not become infected with HIV. He became convinced that this apparent immunity was more than luck. A vaccine for AIDS might emerge by duplicating what seemed to make this small group of women immune. This film tells the remarkable story of the scientific quest to find a prevention, rather than a cure. The work in Nairobi has shifted the paradigm of AIDS research, and has scientists across the globe seeking and finding similar groups with the natural immunity.

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Creation/Production Credits Note:

Directed by Larry Krotz ; produced by Joe MacDonald ; narration written by Larry Krotz ; camera, Charles Lavack, Brian Rougeau ; editors, Steve Weslak, Neila Benson ; narrator, David Fox ; music, Glenn Buhr.

Technical Details:

VHS.

Source of Acquisition:

Media & Technology Support Services copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment Fund; 20034.

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