Friday, October 21st: "They Go to Die" - A multimedia presentation on human rights and access to medicines

[BGS Horsman]

Hi everyone,

PHJC will be returning in full swing next week.  To kick things off, we'd like to invite everyone out to a presentation this Friday at the Norm.

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines and the Neglected Global Diseases Initiative invite you to a multimedia presentation on human rights and access to medicines.  Jonathan Smith, Director of the Visual Ethnography Project at Yale University, will be giving an exclusive preview of an in-progress documentary about families caught up in the southern African HIV/TB co-epidemic.  He will be showing scenes from the documentary, describing his experience living and working with these HIV/TB-infected men and their families, and hosting an open discussion on global health innovation.

See the trailer for the "They Go to Die" documentary here: 

http://kck.st/ocZ5rn

Please join us for this special presentation of "They Go to Die"

Date: 4:00PM, Friday, October 21st

Location:  Norm Theatre, Student Union Building, UBC, 6138 Student Union Boulevard

Admission: Free

Facebook event, please RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=270830259623488  

Background:

"They Go to Die" follows four men that were sent home due to contracting TB in the mines and left with no access to medication. Though the men in the film that did not have access to care eventually succumbed to their illnesses and passed away, the film does not focus on their death, but rather the life that this process (termed ‘sending them home to die’) has taken away. The film tracks Jonathan Smith, a graduate American student as he goes where no one else has yet to go: into the homes of these men.  As he travels to live with these African miners and their families, the film depicts bonding, cultural differences, and the challenges that each character faces in health and family life.  They Go to Die is ultimately a story of humanity – a celebration of family and the power of relationships. 

For more information, please contact in...@ubc-uaem.org

Jonathan with the miners and their families

Two of the miners in the film: Mr. Sagati and Mr. Ndlaga­mandla

Human rights abuses and access to medicines problems allow a cycle of TB/HIV to devastate an entire region.  "They Go to Die" demonstrates family, love, and relationships to advocate change.