Question

film: fire in the blood

Reflect on how patent laws have hurt fight against HIV/AIDS and how you thing they should be changed.

Answer 1

Fire in the blood is a 2013 documentary filim by Dylan Mohan Gray depicting the international obstruction of access to -low cost antiretroviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV/AIDS to people in Africa and other parts of the global south driven by multinational pharmaceutical companies holding patient monopolies and various.

All patients should be removed from anti-retroviral drugs in order to fight AIDS.AIDS is an incurable disease which result from infection with the Human Immunodefiency virus(HIV)Anti retroviral drugs(ARVS) are the only way to extend the life  span of the patient.When the AIDS COCKTAIL first hit in the world's it was as expensive as it was effective,Gray introduces us to Edwin Cameron ,a justice of the constitutional Court in south Africa .In a 1998 Lawsuit brought aganist the South African government ,a coalition of western pharmaceutical companies sought to block legislation that would make badly needed cheap generic drugs avilable to south African AIDS patients.

Three major developments ,the tide inthe fight aganist HIV/AIDS started to turn in 2001 first CIPLA an Indian generic drug manufacturer announced it would sell a three part ARV cocktail to government and NGOsin the developing world $350 per patient per year.Another development is that the World Trade Organization decleared that states have a right to prioritize public health over international patient trade agrements.Last point is rich countries started giving more money to developing states combating these disease.