Who’s Who In The Film
(In order of appearance):
Chatinkha Nkhoma (Kundwenda), Malawi: is an outspoken
HIV-positive activist who was born in Malawi and divides her time
between her homeland and the United States. She fights for HIV drug
access for Malawi citizens and African women. She rallied Africans
to attend a Drop the Debt protest at the 13th International AIDS
Conference in Durban, South Africa.
Princess Nkosi, South Africa is an AIDS activist
who works to educate HIV-positive women and be a role model for
young women. She was a local participant organizer of the “Umbubano
Lo Mama” (Women Working Together) Women at Durban satellite
conference in 2000.
Lungi Mazibuko, Sisters In Action, South Africa,
is a member of the National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS
in South Africa and a dynamic treatment activist who fights for
rights of HIV-positive women.
Zackie Achmat, Treatment Action Group (TAC),
South Africa, is an openly HIV-positive gay rights activist and
former prostitute, and founding member of the country’s Treatment
Action Campaign. Achmat is the most famous AIDS activist in South
Africa. He helped organize TAC’s Defiance campaign, and is
famous for his personal refusal to take antiretroviral medicine
until all South Africans were guaranteed access to ARVs. This stance
made him an international symbol of the global AIDS movement.
Asia Russell, Health GAP, Philadelphia, is a
treatment activist and community organizer with the Health Global
Access Project and a member of ACT UP Philadelphia. She is an expert
on the subject of drug patents and drug pricing, as well as women’s
HIV issues. She is an experienced political strategist who worked
alongside TAC to organize the protests at XIII International AIDS
Conference in Durban.
Winnie Mandela is a leading anti-apartheid activist,
women’s rights leader in South Africa and the first wife of
former President Nelson Mandela.
Rita Bantjies, South Africa, is an AIDS community
organizer and grandmother who has lost children to AIDS and is raising
orphaned children in Durban. She participated in the Women at Durban
“Umbubano Lo Mama” satellite conference.
Tina Rosenberg, USA, is a New York Times reporter
who drew international attention to the global AIDS crisis with
a groundbreaking 2001 NYT Magazine story on Brazil’s achievements.
Harvey Bale, International Federation of Pharmaceutical
Manufacturers Association (IMFPA), is a spokesperson for the IMFPA,
a Geneva-based drug industry advocacy and lobbying group.
Paul Farmer, MD, Partners in Health (PIH), Haiti
and Boston, Massachusetts, is a physician, author, and activist.
Farmer is a founder and key spokesperson for PIH, a Boston-based
nonprofit medical organization that operates clinics in Haiti, Peru,
Russia, and elsewhere. Farmer has written many books, including
2003’s “Infections & Inequalities.” He has
long championed the right of poorest people to quality health care.
Jamie Love, Consumer Project on Technology (CPT)
is an expert on drug pricing and generic manufacturing and trade
issues who has educated the US Congress and many leaders on the
economic issues underlying AIDS drug access.
Sabado Dube, Zimbabwe, is a spokesperson and
former community educator at African Services Committee, a New York-based
AIDS agency serving African immigrants that also offers education,
training and technical assistance to African groups.
Gregg Gonsalves is the Policy Director of Gay
Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), a leading national AIDS service
organization. Gonsalves is a former member of ACT UP in New York
who helped formed the Treatment Action Group to push for speedier
access to HIV treatment. He is openly HIV-positive and actively
promotes the importance of having HIV-positive individuals in HIV
decision-making groups. Gregg recently spearheaded the International
Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), a network of global treatment
activists who are leading the access battle at the grassroots level.
He has served as a community representative on many scientific and
international bodies that oversee HIV research studies and clinical
programs.
Rachel Cohen, Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors
Without Borders is a New York-based activist and spokesman for MSF’s
campaign around access to affordable medicine for AIDS and neglected
diseases. Cohen is now leading a new MSF program in Lesotho, where
HIV rates are astronomically high.
Eric Sawyer, ACT UP – New York, is a founding
member of ACT UP – the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, and
a member of the Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS. An
internationally known HIV-positive community activist and role model,
he was an early voice demanding HIV treatment access for those living
in poor countries.
Glenda Gray, MD, South Africa is a physician
who fought apartheid and has been an outspoken physician-activist
who has pioneered HIV clinical and research programs at the Chris
Hani Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, alongside Dr. James McIntyre,
her close colleague.
Amanda Lugg, African Services Committee, NY is
an AIDS community activist and treatment educator who has protested
at many demonstrations for AIDS drug access. She plans to become
a nurse and continue working on global AIDS issues.
Kofi Annan is Secretary-General of the United
Nations. He called for the UN General Assembly Special Session on
AIDS (UNGASS) in 2001 and put forth the proposal for the creation
of the Global Fund for AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis (GFATM).
Milly Katana, National Guidance and Empowerment
Network, Uganda is one of her country’s best known AIDS activists.
An openly HIV-positive woman and global AIDS leader, she has helped
other women access AIDS care and was the Ugandan community representative
on the Country Coordinating Mechanism of the Global Fund for Uganda.
Peter Piot, MD, is the Executive Director of
UNAIDS, the leading UN agency in charge of AIDS education and prevention.
He was among the first foreign physicians to call attention to the
urgent crisis of AIDS in southern Africa.
Colin Powell, former US Secretary of State under
Bush in 2001, has been an administrative voice advocating for greater
funding of global AIDS issues.
James Wolfensohn, former president of the World
Bank, led the agency in 2001, a time when agency was developing
new policies to fund country AIDS programs. He has participated
in recent high-level discussions of debt cancellation in recent
years.
Sharon Ann Lynch, Health GAP, NY is an AIDS activist
as well as member of ACT UP – New York who has organized many
AIDS protests in the US and works actively to support global allies.
She is a seasoned political strategist now based in Lesotho who
is closely monitoring AIDS funding and international treatment programs.
Alan Berkman, MD, is a founder of Health GAP
in the USA, a longtime treatment activist and HIV physician.
Jose Serra, MD, is the former Minister of Health
of Brazil who pushed for Brazil to take innovative positions regarding
generic production of HIV drugs to its citizens.
Ana Oliviera is the Executive Director of Gay
Men’s Health Crisis in New York who is also a global AIDS
treatment access advocate.
Veriano Terto is a Brazilian prevention activist
who works in Rio de Janeiro.
Eloan dos Santos Pinheiro is a Brazilian chemist
who is credited with helping Brazil to manufacture generic HIV drugs
for the public health sector. She is viewed as a role model by her
peers for her open and passionate commitment to health as a human
right.
Vivek Diwan, Lawyer’s Collective, India,
is an AIDS activist with the Bombay-based legal advocacy organization
that protects the rights of people with HIV/AIDS in India.
Shashank Joshi, MD, is an Indian physician in
Bombay who is an expert in HIV medicine. He treated many early cases
of AIDS and has presented studies of the disease in India.
Anand Grover is a seasoned lawyer and head of
the Lawyer’s Collective in India. He is credited with winning
seminal discrimination cases in his defense of the rights of HIV-positive
individuals and is active on Indian patent issues.
Ishwar Gilada, MD, is a Bombay-based dermatologist
who runs an HIV clinic there.
Eldred Tellis is director of SANKALP Rehabilitation
Trust, a Bombay agency that helps drug users.
Mercy Makhalamale, director of Sisters In Action,
a nonprofit organization in South Africa, is a leader of South Africa’s
AIDS movement, member of the National Association of People with
AIDS (NAPWA) there, and works to help women survivors of rape by
creating safe houses and providing HIV services for them.
Jane Nabalonzi is a member of NACWOLA, the National
Coalition of Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Kampala, Uganda. She
also helped form WTAG- the Women’s Treatment Access Group
-- to mobilize women to access AIDS prevention and treatment programs
there.
Cissy Ssuuna, RN, is an AIDS activist and member
of the National Coalition of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (NACWOLA)
in Uganda. She provides care for AIDS and HIV patients at the city’s
largest hospital in Kampala.
Karyn Kaplan is veteran US human rights, gay
rights and AIDS activist who works with the Thai Treatment Action
Group and has helped organize protests in the US and globally around
treatment access.
Keith Cylar (1958-2004) was a AIDS leader and
co-Director of Housing Works. He was an openly gay, HV-positive
African American activist and former member of ACT UP – New
York’s Housing Committee. Alongside Charles King, his partner,
Cylar built up Housing Works to be the largest provider of housing
to homeless people with HIV, and was a passionate advocate for the
rights of drug users to health care, shelter and addiction services.
Evan Ruderman was an openly HIV-positive activist
who was a member of ACT UP in New York. She was a champion of women’s
HIV issues and helped organize protests to demand women’s
access to treatment. Ruderman helped organize the 2000 Women at
Durban “Umbubano Lo Mama” conference and the 2001 UNGASS
community protests in New York. She also fought a long, difficult
battle with AIDS.
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