Dadajee ki Kahani

Dadajee tells the story of tobacco – its history, cultivation, effects on   health etc. and leaves the end of the story to the child viewers to choose.

  • Col./28 mins.
  • Languages: English-Hindi
  • Contribution Rate: Rs.250/-

Gupt Rog

Discribes the common STDs, their prevalence,modes of transmission and the importance of taking immediate treatment when infected. That these diseases are completely curable is emphasised.

  •  Col./13 mins.
  •  Languages: Hindi Contribution Rate: Rs.250/-

An Old Enemy : A New Weapon

This film is about the TB Control Programme DOTS- Directly Observed Treatment Short Course. It explains how this “New Weapon” takes care of the pitfalls of past TB Control Programmes such as long treatment regimen which is difficult to monitor and control resulting in patients often taking incomplete / interrupted treatment leading to low cure rates, drug resistance to commonly used anti TB drugs and spread of the TB infection to more people. The incidence of TB has been growing globally, particularly in SE Asia.

The film gives the 6-8 months treatment regimen of DOTS in detail. It focuses on the key role the health provider plays and stresses on the importance of the health provider having a close rapport with the patient. It points out that for the DOTS Programme to succeed the Government, medical institutions, NGOs and the community will all have to be involved in it. The necessity of establishing microscopic diagnosis of TB is emphasized. So also that of systematic monitoring of each and every case, having adequate supply of drugs and funding support.

The film has profiled India, Nepal and Bangladesh. DOTS Programme promoted by WHO in Bangladesh has had 85% cure rate. The need to expand this cost effective TB Control Programme, sustaining it at the same time ensuring high quality of performance will go a long way in meeting this global threat which has become even greater with the growing incidence of HIV / AIDS.

  • Col. / 17 mins.
  • Languages: English-Hindi
  • Contribtion Rate:Rs. 250/-

Tomorrow’s Epidemic

This film describes the ever-growing problem of cigarette consumption in Third World countries and the subsequent threat of increase in lung cancer and heart diseases. This new scourge is difficult to fight as tobacco is a cash crop, a source of revenue for armers and a source of taxes for government. More and more of the fertile land is being used for growing tobacco instead of food crops. The film shows how people are becoming victims of an industry, of propaganda and advertising.

  • Col./18 mins.
  • Languages: English-Hindi
  • Contribution Rate: Rs. 350/-

Why Did Mrs. X Die?

An excellently presented film by Dr. Mahmoud Fathalla, Scientist, WHO, and Professor of Obstetrics, Egypt, on maternal mortality. Maternal deaths are usually explained away as due to some medical complication during pregnancy or childbirth. Through the case study of Mrs. X, the film effectively brings out the fact that there are factors other than medical ones, which are avoidable and which are responsible for deaths like that of Mrs. X. Such as, low socio-economic status, poverty, malnutrition, anaemia, illiteracy, social injustice, lack of access to antenatal care and family planning methods. Thus emphasising that mother-survival strategies will have to utilise every exit on the Maternal Death Road to avoid deaths like that of Mrs. X.

  • Col./25 mins.
  • Languages: English- Hindi
  • Contribution Rate: Rs. 300/-