Collection:LSA

Genre: Panel

Place Covered: Louisiana General, New Orleans Region, Louisiana, 1980s, 1989

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Department of State

Date Issued: 2024-07-23

Duration: 00:21:46

Subjects: AIDS | Medicine | EPIDEMICS | Health care reform | Health Cost | Charity Hospital (New Orleans, La.)

Contributors:

• Hill, Angela Host
• Ognibene, John Panelist
• Lutz, Brobson Panelist
• Landrieu, Mitch Panelist
• Brandon, William Panelist

Host, Angela Hill facilitates a discussion between panelists and a live studio audience about AIDS and the medicine used to treat the disease, AZT. Panelists include John Ognibene, a man diagnosed with AIDS; Dr. Brobson Lutz, City Health Director for New Orleans; State Representative Mitch Landrieu; and Dr. William Brandon, Associate Director of the AIDS Clinic at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Topics discussed are how AZT attacks the AIDS virus, the health costs that have become a burden on AIDS patients, ending the stigma around AIDS and its effects on the LGBTQ community, and public funding for AZT and AIDS treatments. Air date: October 19, 1989.