Market of Death
The global pharmaceutical market fails the third world
Sleeping sickness is spreading in Sudan. Older drugs that have been used for decades have been abandoned by their producers because they are not profitable. The newer treatments are priced either beyond the means of patients or are not available because their producers have not found them profitable. Globalisation is doing nothing to help those dying from the otherwise treatable disease.
If the benefits of globalisation really do trickle down, you'd expect to see poor people becoming healthier. But the opposite is happening - and for all the fine talk, globalisation is doing nothing to help. In this film we travel to Southern Sudan, where the mad people of Ibba are the harbingers of a global health crisis...
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