- State of Denial (film)
Infobox Film | name = State of Denial
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director =Elaine Epstein
producer = Elaine Epstein]
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music = Thomas DeRenzo
cinematography = Sven Cheatle, Carl DeHeer, Brian Green, Eddie Wes
editing = Penny Hays
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runtime = 86 min.
language = English
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imdb_id = 0343024: "For the book by Bob Woodward, see ."
"State of Denial" is a 2003
documentary film aboutAIDS inAfrica , produced and directed byElaine Epstein . The film highlights the errors ofPresident Mbeki 's government, which insists that there isn't enough evidence to show thatHIV causes AIDS and refuses vital life-saving drugs to their people because of unknown long-term risks. The film follows the stories of HIV positive Africans andactivists as well as their careers, interspersed with the harrowing statistics of the AIDS epidemic in Africa.ee also
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AIDS denialism , a movement challenging thescientific consensus that HIV causes AIDS.External links
* [http://www.stateofdenial.org/ State of Denial website]
*imdb title|id=0343024|title=State of Denial
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