Your Money Or Your Life - 40 minute documentary - trailer

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Pharmaceutical companies are failing to research third-world disease in favour of producing 'life-style' drugs for western customers.

On the ten-year anniversary of the liberation from Apartheid, South Africans have a good reason to celebrate. But this new freedom is threatened by the escalating AIDS problem, with no less than a quarter of the population infected. Eric Goemaere, a doctor working for Medecins Sans Frontieres in one of the townships, looks upon the situation with sorrow:

"We treat them only for the so-called opportunistic diseases, mainly fungi diseases and tuberculosis, that appear because of the weakened immune system. But of course we want to do more -- by giving what they are giving in Europe, in the rich countries: triple-drug therapy, the anti-retrovirals. For us doctors it is totally unacceptable to know this and to see our patients further deteriorate ..."

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11 May 2001

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[Papakia666]

funny thing... No one cares... We have our own lives in our superior countries, we drive marvelous cars, we buy fancy clothes and we eat until we all end fucking fat... No one cares and no one will. Thats the real world. People work so many hours that they dont even have time to think about all these things. Nothing changes...