World AIDS Day: Pills, Profits, Protest Film & Discussion

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World AIDS Day: "Pills, Profits, Protest" Film & Discussion

World AIDS Day: "Pills, Profits, Protest" Film &

Discussion

You are invited to a WORLD AIDS DAY Film Screening and Discussion on

the role of pharmaceutical companies

in limiting access to AIDS treatment in Africa.

Thursday, December 1, 2005

(World AIDS Day)

5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Film:

PILLS PROFITS PROTEST

TransAfrica Forum

1426 21st Street, NW, Second Floor,

Washington, DC 20036

Metro: Dupont Circle (Red Line, Use Q Street—North—Exit)

After the film, there will be an informed

dialogue about the root causes of the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa, the

current state of treatment access on the continent and the role of

pharmaceutical companies in limiting access to essential HIV/AIDS

medicines.

About

the Film: Pills Profits Protest is an up-to-the-minute documentary

about global AIDS treatment activism. It examines the national and

international grassroots response to an epidemic that has already

overshadowed the Black Death in terms of human lives lost. The demand

for access to affordable treatment for 40 million people living with

HIV, most of whom live in

impoverished countries, represents one of the most successful political

movements of contemporary history. This documentary examines critical

junctures in the battle for access to HIV treatment, as the

poorest and most marginalized individuals confront larger powers,

including governments, corporate bodies and a multinational drug

industry that is motivated by profit. The fight for AIDS drugs is

taking place in tandem with a growing anti-globalization movement; the

latter provides a backdrop for examining AIDS through a lens of

poverty, socioeconomic injustice and human rights. 60 minutes. http://www.outcast-films.com/films/ppp/.

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