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Your Money and Your Life (2001): How multi-national pharmaceutical corporations are failing Africa... and the world. Subscribe to Journeyman for daily current affairs and science reports: http://www.youtube.com/journeymanpictures Watch our Ebola playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlGSlkijht5jc6S6qrM7t4UQV3FikXLOH For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=9006 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 Frontiers 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 … Michel Peremans - Ref. 976 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.