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"All The Doctors Scared"

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Channel: Wrath0fKhan · 2012 · People & Blogs

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Egypt's government suspects up to 11,000 people have HIV, but many people may be unaware or afraid to admit it. CNN's Ian Lee reports.

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"In the late 1980s and early 1990s, very frightening TV adverts about AIDS had been broadcast in Egypt, with scary images of bats, blood, evil satanic prostitutes and intravenous drug use.[6] Early films about AIDS tended to display total ignorance about the facts of the disease, and to play on fear; one such film was based on HIV being transferred by infected female Mossad agents in Taba.[7] Wessam el-Beih, the UNAIDS Country Coordinator for Egypt, said, "Egyptian media , especially the film industry has for years propagated misinformation and portrayed biased views about people living with HIV."[8] In December 2011, Index on Censorship reported that "Low self esteem and fear of rejection are common sentiments shared by Egyptians living with HIV. Out of an estimated 11,000 people in Egypt living with HIV and AIDS, only 500 are seeking treatment, according to UN reports. And none has publicly disclosed their status."[8]
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Asmaa (Hend Sabry) is a woman in her 40s living with her aging father Hosni (Sayed Ragab) and teenage daughter Habiba (Fatma Adel) in Cairo, and struggling to support them with her meagre earnings from a menial job at Cairo International Airport. She is HIV-positive and requires surgery on her gallbladder, without which she will die. Doctors refuse her surgery when, on the point of entering the operating theatre, she reveals that she has AIDS.
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In the Egyptian English-language women's magazine, What Women Want, May Abdel Asim praised the film as "authentic and sincere" and "a true story of a strong and proud woman who has Aids but Aids does not have her".[9] Other Egyptian reviewers were not so favourable: Hani Mustafa, in al-Ahram Weekly, disliked the "preaching and moralising" he found in the film, calling it "little more than slick propaganda that may work well as part of a civil society AIDS campaign."[7] Stephen Farber, for The Hollywood Reporter, called the film "one of the strongest movies" among those from the Arab world shown at the 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival, and "indeed one of the best in the entire festival".[10]"

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