Under Construction - UC Films

A special collection of 3 short films on HIV/AIDS. (Available on DVD in India only).

Good health, self help and sisterhood. Why does this bother the brotherhood?

Private knowledge vs Public good: A story about HIV/AIDS drugs and patents.

A film about women’s contribution to their economies and the attitudes that deny women their share of healthcare.

Is it all fair in AIDS treatment?

Why won’t the Government recognise India’s one million traditional birth practitioners?

One cactus stands between hope and hunger – Hoodia, a cactus used by Bushmen for centuries, has caught the attention of a giant pharmaceutical company.

Blending broad issues of history and memory with the near ubiquitous control of war imagery by the military, this film raises questions about the true human cost when the desire for total victory outweighs the moral obligations of ‘humanitarian intervention’.

Four inter-sex women speak about their lives.

The story of Sajida Khan, a South African woman with a hazardous dumpsite on her doorstep.

When scientists tested breast milk from Inuit mothers, they were shocked to find the milk loaded with chemicals migrating from the south.

Widows, mothers, under-30 women, coping with AIDS – and looking for dignity.

Do the pharmaceutical companies really spend as much on the development of new medicines as they say they do? And do they need patents to protect their huge profits?

The film explores the perceptions of two visually challenged women, who speak of their experience of childhood, getting an education, finding employment, marriage and child rearing.

This film documents a remarkable community health programme run by a Gandhian hospital in an impoverished tribal area in South Gujrat.

How health is not only about illnesses and services, but interwoven with larger issues affecting people’s lives.

A day in the life of Mariammal, a woman sanitary worker, who cleans the shit from a lane in Madurai.

A historical overview of India’s coercive Family Planning program and its effect on women.

Drawing on the testimonies of individuals who have been infected nosocomially with HIV/AIDS, the film aims to sensitise various groups to the risks involved in transmission of HIV through blood exposures, in the Indian context.

A film on those invisible women practicing folk medicine.