Documentary: Fire in the Blood

When big pharma blocks essential HIV/AIDS medication to the third world, it is the poor who suffer.

The award-winning documentary Fire in the Blood exposes the challenges NGOs, doctors and activists face in their fight against big pharma and patent laws that prevent millions of HIV/AIDS patients in the developing world from accessing lifesaving drugs.

Oscar winner William Hurt narrates the documentary which was shot in eight countries, across four continents.

The film's contributors include Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu and Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, along with key figures in the struggle to get essential HIV/AIDS drugs to countries of the global south.

You can watch the documentary in two parts here.


Source: Al Jazeera

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By Dylan Mohan Gray

Published: Nov. 7, 2014, 3:23 p.m.

Last updated: Nov. 7, 2014, 11:26 p.m.

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