Female Disappearance Syndrome

Female Disappearance Syndrome

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 1, 2020

Runtime

0h 7m

Original Title

Female Disappearance Syndrome

Production Companies

Visual AIDS

Director

Lucía Egaña Rojas

Description

Lucía Egaña Rojas challenges gendered representations of HIV and AIDS, investigating what Lina Meruane has termed “female disappearance syndrome”—the erasure of women living with HIV from conversations about the epidemic. Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2020 as part of TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States.