Living on the Edge

Synopsis: Tells the stories of HIV-infected drug users, filmed over three years. Shows how gaps in understanding between the drugs agencies and the AIDS agencies can leave both users and workers bewildered, frustrated and unsupported. Covers issues specific to HIV drug users. Shows examples of support and interaction between user and support agencies. Twenty short trigger scenes follow.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.
Year of production: 1991
Availability: Sale; 1993 sale: £55.00 (inclusive)
Documentation: Accompanying training guide developed by the Community Education and Development Centre, Coventry.
Uses: Providers health & community services for drug users with AIDS.
Subjects: Medical sciences
Keywords: AIDS patients; counselling; health education; HIV; trigger videos

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Notes: A long-established, not-for-profit organisation with a large collection DVDs, specialising in the sectors of general and mental health, child care, race relations, war and peace, addictions, the third world, ecology, civil rights, personal relationships, educational issues, and social work training. Concord also handles titles made for the Graves Medical Audio-visual Library. Sale on DVD. Formerly known as Concord Video and Film Council. In 2014 Concord began to offer selected films as Video on Demand, via Vimeo.

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