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This silent, animated educational film introduces the relationship between sexual intercourse and conception. Animated drawings illustrate how conception occurs and the manner in which various birth control devices, surgical methods, and the contraceptive pill function. The film is without spoken commentary and is designed to be used by professional personnel. An instruction guide was produced for use with the film but is not held in the NLM collection.

Focusing on Bogotá, Colombia as a case study, this film discusses reasons for rural-to-urban migration, and the consequences of that population shift. Homes and land are scarcer, and rural farming skills don't suit urban factory jobs. Large families aren't the asset they might be in other settings. The film profiles a successful "community-based distribution" (CBD) program sponsored by Profamilia, which assures easy access to contraceptives, providing an alternative to a large family that may not be the best choice for all households.

Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, along with Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health and winner of the 2020 Templeton Prize, and Dr. Luciana Borio, a member of President-elect Joseph Biden's Coronavirus Task Force, present and discuss the COVID-19 pandemic on November 12, 2020. Presented as the Cathedral's 2020 Ignatius Forum, Dr. Fauci will discuss the prospects for a second wave and for a vaccine. Dr. Fauci, Dr. Collins and Dr.

Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health and winner of the 2020 Templeton Prize, and other leaders from the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Health and Human Services join Washington National Cathedral to vaccinate DC-area clergy and discuss the importance and safety of the COVID-19 vaccination.

Filmmaker Rhonda Klevansky documents the efforts of seven women across the United States who began sewing cloth masks to distribute in their communities in spring 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic exploded. As medical and scientific advisors stressed the importance of masks, these women got to work while sheltering at home. They narrate their work and talk about their reasons for undertaking the project in this short documentary video.

Produced by a community group in Lincoln, Nebraska, this video tells the story of Captain Soapman, who fights the COVID-19 pandemic with good handwashing habits and other careful practices.* Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101777278 Learn more about the National Library of Medicine's historical audiovisuals program at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/films *The National Library of Medicine ha

This film is a review of viral hepatitis for physicians. The epidemiology, incubation period, immunity, transmission, and incidence of the disease are presented. The symptoms, proper physical examination, laboratory findings, treatment, and pathology of the disease are detailed. The differential diagnosis of viral hepatitis from obstructive jaundice, hemolytic jaundice, infectious mononucleosis, cirrhosis, metastatic carcinoma, toxic hepatitis, Weil's disease, and amebic hepatitis is outlined.

This film shows historical reenactments of the discoveries of cures for syphilis. It begins with the discovery of the spirochete in 1905 under the microscope and the discovery of the Wassermann test. The film shows success in experiments leading to the diagnosis and cure of syphilis, though syphilis continues to be a leading cause of sickness and death. Discussion of the disease and its symptoms follows. A public health education program is helping to fight back against this disease, since ignorance is the greatest ally of syphilis.

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Presents a roomful of health care providers receiving training on how to manage the knowns and unknowns about AIDS and deal with their anxiety, guilt, burnout, and even anger. At the start of the video, one nurse raises her hand to say, "The doctors aren't always honest about the patient having AIDS." It aims to explain the complicated feelings of health care providers who work with AIDS patients and presents a rational-emotive approach to assist in overcoming counter-productive thinking and fear.