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DESCRIPTION:"Coming to Say Goodbye:Stories of AIDS in Africa" is a stunning documentary 
 about the AIDS pandemic as it is experienced today by East Africans. 
 Through the eyes of courageous people suffering from AIDS and their 
 eloquent and committed care-givers, we see how AIDS is not just a “health 
 crisis” but is part of the cycle of poverty and inequality that is 
 devastating to food security and economic development in the poorest 
 countries of the world.  "Cost of Living" investigates the situation of the 
 90% of people infected with HIV who live in developing countries, most of 
 whom 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.  This documentary 
 investigates why Thailand and South Africa applied to use compulsory 
 licenses and parallel importing -- practices agreed under World Trade 
 Organization guidelines -- to make their own generic versions of 
 anti-retroviral drugs to halt the AIDS epidemic in their countries, and 
 asks why anti-retroviral drugs still aren't included in their lists of 
 essential drugs.  The films will be followed by an open discussion led by 
 John Inverson of ActUP EastBay and Ninu Kidane of Africa Network.  
 Suggested donation $5 - $10; sponsored by Peninsula Peace and Justice 
 Center, World Centric, and Peace Umbrella of Unitarian Universalist Church 
 of Palo Alto.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/11/02/50983.php
SUMMARY:Films: "Coming to Say Goodbye" and "Cost of Living"
LOCATION:Unitarian Hall  505 E. Charleston, Palo Alto  (Wheelchair accessible)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/11/02/50983.php
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