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The cost of living / Bullfrog Films presents ; a Big World Cinema production for TVE and BBC Worldwide ; Television Trust for the Environment ; executive producer, Jenny Richards ; series producer, Luke Gawin ; series editor, Robert Lamb ; producers, Steven Markovitz, Toni Strasburg ; directed by Toni Strasburg.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Life (Bullfrog Films) ; 14.
- Life ; 14
- Language:
- English
- Thai
- Subjects (All):
- World Trade Organization--Rules and practice.
- World Trade Organization.
- Globalization.
- Globalization--Economic aspects.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- AIDS (Disease)--Thailand.
- AIDS (Disease).
- AIDS (Disease)--South Africa.
- AIDS (Disease)--Treatment--Costs.
- AIDS (Disease)--Law and legislation.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- AIDS (Disease)--Treatment.
- South Africa.
- AIDS (Disease)--Treatment--Thailand.
- AIDS (Disease)--Treatment--South Africa.
- AIDS (Disease)--Treatment--Thailand--Costs.
- AIDS (Disease)--Treatment--South Africa--Costs.
- Pharmaceutical industry--South Africa.
- Pharmaceutical industry--Thailand.
- Medical care, Cost of.
- Drugs--Law and legislation.
- Drugs.
- Thailand.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (25 min.) : digital, sound, color.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English, Thai, and South African languages with English voiceovers.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Twenty-nine year old Pramote lives in Bangkok and has AIDS. If he'd been able to afford the drugs now routinely prescribed for HIV positive people in the West, he wouldn't be paralyzed and bedridden today. But Pramote is actually one of the luckier AIDS sufferers in Thailand. With the help of a project run by Doctors without Borders, 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. 90% 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 too expensive for their national health services.
- Participant:
- Commentary: Richard Farmer ; Interviews with Eric Goemaere, Tido Von Schoen-Angerer, Wilbert Bannenberg, Vicki Ehrich, Phangisile Mtshali, Sister Abigail Ntleko, Dr. Suwit Wilbulpolprasert, Paisan Tan-Ud, Dr. Krisana Kraisintu, Dr. J.H. Pretorius.
- Credits:
- Editors, Ashley Smith, Lisba Vosloo.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: TVE International/Big World Cinema, ©2000.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 24, 2017).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-lscol Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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