The HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Public Broadcasting

Additional Programs


“AIDS Attack” (WUNC, Chapel Hill, NC, March 15, 1983)

Dr. Mike Cohen of the UNC School of Medicine and Dr. Campbell McMillan of the NCMH Hemophilia Center discuss AIDS in March 1983, six months after the CDC introduced the term “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.”

The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, “AIDS Alarm” (Educational Broadcasting Corporation and GWETA, June 27, 1983)

Express, “AIDS: A Mixed Reaction” (KQED, San Francisco, January 3, 1985)

“Houston in the Age of AIDS” (KUHT-TV, Houston, TX, April 5, 1985)

Houston has the fourth highest rate of AIDS in the United States.

Illustrated Daily, "AIDS", (KNME-TV, Albuquerque, NM, May 9 and 10, 1985)

New Mexico AIDS cases are increasing faster than the national pattern and are prone to attack "risk groups" (i.e., male homosexuals, intravenous drug users, prostitutes, and hemophiliacs). New understanding of the AIDS virus is presented.

Illustrated Daily, “The AIDS Epidemic in New Mexico Grows” (KNME-TV, Albuquerque, NM, October 14, 1985)

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr., “AIDS: The Rights of the Patient, the Rights of the Public” (South Carolina Educational Television Network, December 2, 1985)

AIDS: Profile of an Epidemic – Update (WNET, New York, NY, January 7, 1986)

Illustrated Daily, “Legislature: AIDS Funding” (KNME-TV, Albuquerque, NM, February 10, 1986)

Jim Cooper’s Orange County, “AIDS: Fact and Fiction” (KOCE-TV, Orange County, CA, March 27, 1986)

Forum, “A Personal Struggle with AIDS” (KUT Radio, Austin, TX, March 29, 1986)

Illustrated Daily, “AIDS Update” (KNME-TV, Albuquerque, NM, May 27, 1986)

Express, “Those People: AIDS in the Public Mind” (KQED, San Francisco, July 29, 1986)

Managing Our Miracles: Healthcare in America, “AIDS: In Search of a Miracle” (WQED, Pittsburgh, PA, 1986)

“A.I.D.S.: A Regional Report” (Maryland Public Television, May 26, 1987)

“AIDS: The San Diego Story” (KPBS, San Diego, CA, September 30, 1987)

On the Record, “Living with AIDS” (New Jersey Network, October 1, 1987)

New Jersey has the fifth largest AIDS population in the country.

Iowa Press, “AIDS” (Iowa Public Television, November 1, 1987)

Forum, “AIDS Services of Austin” (KUT Radio, Austin, TX, November 20, 1987)

On Assignment, “1987 Year in Review; AIDS - A Look Back” (KNME-TV, Albuquerque, NM, December 30, 1987)

AIDS Health Inserts; 2 Clips on AIDS Patients (KERA, Dallas, TX, 1987)

“Something's Happening. AIDSGATE: Everything You Know Is Wrong” (KPFK, Los Angeles, CA, 1987)

On Assignment, “AIDS and Social Security” (KNME-TV, Albuquerque, NM, February 27, 1988)

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr., “Scare Tactics and AIDS” (South Carolina Educational Television Network, March 31, 1988)

Focus on Education, “Legal Rights of Children with AIDS” (KUNM, Albuquerque, NM, June 1, 1988)

“AIDS Lifeline” (WHUT, Washington, DC, June 22, 1988)

Iowa Students Look At … “AIDS” (Iowa Public Television, October 24, 1988)

Highway 40, “Masters and Johnson and the Threat of AIDS” (KETC-TV, St. Louis, MO, 1988)

New Jersey Network News, “AIDS and the Homeless” (New Jersey Network, 1988)

Focus 580, “Learning by Heart: AIDS and School Children in America’s Communities” (WILL Illinois Public Media, Urbana, IL, May 17, 1989)

Other Faces of AIDS (Maryland Public Television, August 1, 1989)

On the Record, “AIDS ID Protection” (New Jersey Network, July 30, 1989)

Living the Last Days (KCET, Los Angeles, October 5, 1989)

At Week's End, “AIDS: The Need for Lifestyle Changes” (KNME-TV, Albuquerque, NM, December 10, 1989)

Forum, “AIDS and the University” (KUT, Austin, TX, December 12, 1989)

Wrestling with AIDS (KQED, San Francisco, 1989)

Nancy Finken Interviews, “AIDS Education” (KHCC, Hutchinson, KS, late 1980s)

Buenas Noches, “Awareness about AIDS” (KDNA, Granger, WA, September 25, 1990)

Living with AIDS (KUHT-TV, Houston, TX, November 21, 1990)

AIDS at the Crossroads (KQED, San Francisco, 1990)

At Week’s End, “Women with AIDS” (KNME-TV, Albuquerque, NM, February 1, 1991)

The Challenge of Grief... AIDS and Seven Choices (KUHT-TV, Houston, TX, June 1991)

WTTW Journal, “Protect Yourself: Teaching Your Children about AIDS” (WTTW, Chicago, IL, 1991)

Forum, “Father Randolph Frew: The Episcopal Church Confronts AIDS” (KUT Radio, Austin, TX, March 23, 1992)

After Goodbye: An AIDS Story (KERA, Dallas, TX, 1993)

Forum with Michael Krasny, “AIDS & Politics” (KQED, San Francisco, CA, March 28, 1994)

Images/Imagenes, “Hispanics & AIDS” (New Jersey Network, April 6, 1994)

[Open Air, New England, “The Forgotten Mothers and Children of the AIDS Epidemic” (Connecticut Public Radio, 1994)

“On the Path to an AIDS Vaccine” (Commonwealth Club of California, December 1, 1998)

Evening Exchange, “AIDS in Africa” (WHUT, Washington, DC, June 14, 1999)

NOW with Bill Moyers, “Jimmy Carter and Bill Gates, Sr. on Fighting AIDS” (Public Affairs Television, March 3, 2002)

*Evening Exchange, “HIV/AIDS” (WHUT, Washington, DC, January 17, 2003)

Morning Edition: North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty, “Making Ends Meet with HIV” (WUNC, Chapel Hill, NC, April 2005)

“Crystal Meth and HIV: One Pandemic or Two?” (Commonwealth Club of California, October 27, 2005)

World AIDS Day Panel (Commonwealth Club of California, November 29, 2005)

New Mexico in Focus, “AIDS: Interview with UNMH Doctor” (KNME-TV, Albuquerque, NM, May 19, 2006)

New Mexico in Focus, “The Risk Remains: HIV in New Mexico” (KNME-TV, Albuquerque, NM, May 26, 2006)

World AIDS Day (Commonwealth Club of California, December 1, 2006)

New Mexico in Focus, “AIDS: NMAS (New Mexico AIDS Services) Participants - Sabrina” (KNME-TV, Albuquerque, NM, 2006)

New Mexico in Focus, “AIDS: NMAS (New Mexico AIDS Services) Participants - Christine and Gloria"(KNME-TV, Albuquerque, NM, 2006)

ViewPoint, “Age of AIDS in Micronesia,” Part 2 (PBS Guam, 2006)

African American Legends, Debra Fraser-Howze, CEO, National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (CUNY TV, New York, NY, October 30, 2007)

Connecting the Community, “Communicable Diseases” (WSRE, Pensacola, FL, November 8, 2007)

“Orphans of AIDS” (Commonwealth Club of California, May 8, 2008)

Connecting the Community, “Increased Incidence of HIV” (WSRE, Pensacola, FL, August 12, 2008)

“Follow the Money: AIDS Funding Today” (Commonwealth Club of California, December 11, 2008)

African American Legends, C. Virginia Fields, President/CEO, National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (CUNY TV, New York, NY, November 9, 2009)

“AIDS around the World: A World AIDS Day Special” (Commonwealth Club of California, December 11, 2008)

Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network, “Saturday Is for Funerals: AIDS in Botswana” (WGBH, Boston, MA, May 18, 2010)

The Press Club, “Timothy Young, HIV/AIDS Alliance” (Louisiana Public Broadcasting, August 2, 2010)

¡Colores! “Exhibition: The '80S and the Rise of Women Artists, AIDS Crisis, and Street Art” (KNME-TV, Albuquerque, NM, May 3, 2013)

New Mexico in Focus, “HIV Updates in New Mexico” (KNME-TV, Albuquerque, NM, April 24, 2015)

Bertrand Boudreau Cycles for AIDS Awareness (KUNM, Albuquerque, NM, date unknown)

HIV Interviews (KMUW, Wichita, KS, date unknown)

Mountain News & World Report, News Segment on AIDS Education (Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY, date unknown)

Curators

Elizabeth Dinneny

English PhD candidate at the University of Maryland

Sonia Prasad

Williams College graduate and intern in the 2022 Library of Congress Archives, History, and Heritage Advanced Internship (AHHA) program