HIV Educational Package: AIDS Awareness, Dawn's Gift, Crushing the Flower

In this 3-part presentation, Boeing employee Dawn Beckhols is filmed at a seminar during which she first gives the basic facts of the HIV/AIDS landscape, then relates her personal story of infection, acceptance, and illness. In a third section, Dawn and a half-dozen other young, heterosexual women share their struggles and victories living with HIV/AIDS. Despite its bare-bones production values, this tape is straightforward, up-to-date, and poignant (Beckhols continued teaching as an AIDS Awareness Educator before her recent passing). The facts of transmission and protection can never be repeated too often, especially at a price of $6.50. Highly recommended for high school and public libraries. Aud: H, P. (K. Glaser)