Lifecycles: A Story of AIDS in Malawi is a 2003 documentary from directors Sierra Bellows and Doug Karr

Doug Karr

Doug Karr has worked in the industry since 1997 creating original independent films. Karr’s 2009 film Ten for Grandpa is a personal investigation into the life of Karr's grandfather, an infamous Cold War merchant banker, and screened at the Sundance Film Festival...

 focusing on the AIDS

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

 epademic in Malawi

Malawi

The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Its size...

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

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Plot

Lifecycles: a Story of AIDS in Malawi is an hour long documentary film shot over an eight month period on location in Malawi, Africa. Malawi won't perish, but must grow with the virus as catalyst. Lifecycles provides a detailed glimpse into the lives of the Malawian people living with HIV and AIDS. Directors Doug Karr and Sierra Bellows travel across Malawi bringing us a glimpse of a complex situation that encompasses sadness and hope, defeat and renewal.

Cast

• Minister of Health - Aleke Banda
  Aleke Banda
  Aleke Kadonaphani Banda was a Malawian politician who served as a Member of Parliament, former Minister of Finance and Agriculture in Malawi. He was also co-founder of 'the Nation Publications Limited.'...
  
  
• Traditional Healer & Midwife - Dr. Kondanani Kaluwa
• Person Living with HIV & Director of MANET
  Manet
  -MANET as an abbreviation:*MANET is a mobile ad hoc network, a self-configuring mobile wireless network.*MANET database or Molecular Ancestry Network, bioinformatics database-People with the surname Manet:*Édouard Manet, a 19th-century French painter....
  
   - Victor Kamanga
• Head of the Internal Medicine at Lilongwe Central Hospital - Dr. Stefan Luftl
• Speaker of the National Assembly - HonorableSam MpasuM.P.
• Traditional Healer - Ireen Ntonyo
• HIV
  HIV
  Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
  
   / AIDS Activist - Catherine Phiri
• Commercial Sex Worker - Magie Phiri
• Person Living with AIDS - Mphasto Tambala

External links

• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
• Review of Lifecycles: A Story of AIDS in Malawi by Stephen Wise