E-DRUG: TVE Documentary rescheduled on BBC World
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[an earlier E-drug announcement had a wrong date for thi documentary. WB]
BBC World has kindly agreed to a change of schedule, so that the
AIDS drug documentary "The Cost of Living" can be shown around
the time of the International AIDS Conference in Durban 9-14 July.
Please find a revised schedule below.
Life is broadcast weekly worldwide on BBC World. Further broadcasts in
other countries - particularly developing countries - are in discussion.
We are grateful for any further promotion that you can give to the
broadcast of the series.
'Life' is transmitted every week on BBC World at the following times
(GMT):
Fri @ 1930; Sat @ 1330; Sun @ 0630; Mon @ 0430 & 1330; Tues @ 0730 &
1630; Wed @ 0030 & 1030
July 14-19 The Cost of Living
Twenty-nine year old Pramote lives in Bangkok and has AIDS. If hed been
able to afford the drugs now routinely prescribed for HIV positive
people in the West, he wouldn't be paralysed and bedridden today. But
Pramote is actually one of the luckier AIDS sufferers in Thailand. With
the help of a project run by Medecins sans Frontieres, his family is
able to care for him at home; a great improvement on the treatment
available to most AIDS patients in the developing world. Ninety per cent
of the people infected with HIV today live in developing countries, and
most don't have access to the drugs that could keep them alive because
they are still under patent to major pharmaceutical companies; and so
simply too expensive for their national health services. This week's
Life investigates why Thailand and South Africa applied to use
compulsory licences and parallel importing - practices agreed under
World Trade Organisation guidelines to make their own generic versions
of anti-retroviral drugs to halt the AIDS epidemic in their countries,
and asks why anti-retroviral drugs still aren't included in their
essential drugs lists.
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