Video Clips

Short films produced by the BBC, GSK and WHO showing the plight of patients with LF, the global effort to fight LF, and country activities in the Philippines and Uganda can be found here.

Elephantiasis anguish in Ghana
Fergus Walsh, Health Correspondent from BBC News at 10, reports from Ghana on 'The disease lymphatic filariasis, known as elephantiasis, continues to cause misery in Africa despite medical advances' (November 2006).

BBC World commissioned a series entitled "Kill or Cure" through Rockhopper Productions in 2004. Lymphatic filariasis was featured providing an overview of the Global Programme and included filming in Ghana and Egypt. Available in English, copies can be obtained from the Global Alliance Secretariat.

• Launching The Fight Back (duration 3 mins 53 secs) reports on the early stages of the global effort to make a future without LF;
• The Patient's Perspective (duration 10 mins 32 secs) brings first hand evidence of the effects of LF on those who suffer, and reports on the early stages of the global effort to make a future without LF;
• The Patient's Perspective (duration 4 mins 30 secs) is the short version of the above film.

The films are available in VHS (PAL, SECAM and NTSC) and CD format from:

Lymphatic Filariasis Programme
GlaxoSmithKline
One Franklin Plaza, FP 2130
P O Box 7929
Philadelphia PA 19101, USA

e-mail orders at: community.partnership@gsk.com (with "LF" in the subject line)

• Lymphatic Filariasis: A Winnable Battle (duration 18') a global advocacy film that gives an overview of the problem of LF in the world and explains the role of the Global Alliance. It is available in English and French;
• A Movement For Hope (duration 4') a short film for policy-makers and interested parties giving an overview of the Programme and the Partnership. It is available in English and French
• A Fair For Health, A Fair For Hope (duration 14') a film about the LF health fair held in the island of Mindoro in the Philippines. It is available in English and French
• Lymphatic Filariasis: Meeting the Challenge (duration 12') a film about the effort made in Uganda to treat communities with high levels of infection. It is available in English and French

The films are to be used at national and global level. The film are available in English, French and in a non-dubbed "international" format for adaptation to other languages.

The films exists in VHS (PAL, SECAM and NTSC) and CD format from:

Communicable Diseases Information Resource Centre
World Health Organization, Avenue Appia
1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland

fax: +41 22 791 42 85
web: http://www.who.int/infectious-disease-news
e-mail orders at: cdsdoc@who.int