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Fire in the Blood
2013 · Film · documentary · 84 min
Directed by Dylan Mohan Gray
An intricate tale of "medicine, monopoly and malice", Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of the global south in the years after 1996 - causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths - and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back. Shot on four continents and including contributions from global figures such as Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu and Joseph Stiglitz, Fire in the Blood is the never-before-told true story of the remarkable coalition which came together to stop 'the crime of the century' and save millions of lives in the process.
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Oh yeah. If the GP is angry now, wait til they watch the documentary Fire in the Blood (2013) [1] about the use, by big pharma, of patents and WIPO to obstruct access to affordable antiretrovirals (ARVs) in Africa during the worst years of the AIDS epidemic, leading to over ten million deaths. All of this when the African market for these medications represented less than 1% of the total market, in dollars.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_in_the_Blood_(2013_film)
I understand!
Yesterday I was mad just by reading the Wikipedia page about Pfizer; I then ended up in a revealing documentary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_in_the_Blood_(2013_film) which now is in netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/70268209 and got even more mad.
I think the "The Fourth Estate" lost trust on their readers as we are doing ourselves with the people around us, and this is not doubt a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy
Just caught part of the 2013 documentary, "Fire in the Blood", wherein pharma actively worked to keep affordable generics out of government programs in poor nations. Millions suffered and died nedlessly as a result.
And, "true costs", of course, had little to do with it. Our economic priorities are heartbreaking. Little wonder, as our most important economic entities (corporations) are granted personhood, but would essentially be classified as psychopaths if they were actually human.