"SERIAL PASSAGE: AIDS, RACE, AND CULTURE" (PHASE I)

描述（由申请人提供）： “系列通道：艾滋病，种族和文化”是一个多部分的纪录片系列。 长期目标 1. 制作一个系列纪录片，探讨艾滋病毒/艾滋病的具体和破坏性影响。艾滋病对非洲人和非裔美国人的影响。 2.在高风险的年轻人群体中，建立一个对艾滋病毒预防的需要的更高的理解，到目前为止，他们对现有的公共卫生信息没有反应。 具体目标： 1.解构艾滋病的种族耻辱，并科学地对抗与美国黑人和非洲疾病密切相关的阴谋论。 2.与市中心的一所高中的科学班合作，积极地让他们参与到系列的制作中来。 研究设计和方法 1.用电影记录科学探究的过程，这导致了两位杰出的研究人员对艾滋病起源的理论。 2.用电影记录艾滋病毒/艾滋病对特定非洲国家，包括乌干达和南非，以及对美国非裔美国人社区的社会影响。 3.在一个学年中，定期为高中班级放映纪录片的片段，并在学生和科学家之间进行录像讨论;在学年开始和结束时，给学生一份录像问卷，旨在测量他们对艾滋病及其对他们特定社区的影响了解多少。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): "Serial Passage: AIDS, Race, and Culture" is a multi-part documentary series. Long-term goals 1. To produce a documentary series exploring the specific and devastating impact of H.I.V./AIDS upon Africans and African-Americans. 2. To create a heightened understanding of the need for H.I.V. prevention among the high-risk group of young, inner-city African-Americans who've so far proved unresponsive to available public health information. Specific Aims: 1. To deconstruct the racial stigma of AIDS, and scientifically confront the conspiracy theories which are firmly linked to the disease in black America, and in Africa. 2. to work with an inner-city high school science class, actively involving them in the making of the series. Research Design and Methods 1. To document on film the process of scientific inquiry which led two prominent researchers to their theory on the origin of AIDS. 2. To document on film the social impact of H.I.V/AIDS upon specific African countries, including Uganda and South Africa, and upon African-American communities in the United States. 3. To periodically screen footage of the documentary for the high school class and conduct videotaped discussions between the students and the scientists throughout one academic year; 4. To give the students a videotaped questionnaire at the beginning and end of the year designed to measure how much they leam about AIDS and its impact upon their particular community.