4 stars for this revelation packed documentary.
Fire In The Blood is an in depth look at the Western pharmaceutical industry and the way in which it manipulates global availability and costs of life saving drugs to further it's own interests.
As narrator William Hurt (The Host, The Incredible Hulk) so neatly states, "If it is true that one death is a tragedy and a million deaths is a statistic, this is a story about statistics."
In 1996, with millions of people all over the world afflicted with and dying from HIV and AIDS, finally a light appeared at the end of the tunnel, when a new combination of three drugs, known collectively as anti-retro virals (HIV is a retro virus) was introduced.
However, there was a catch. As explained by Justice Cameron, a South African judge who was himself suffering from the disease, the cost of the drugs was equivalent to one third of his judicial salary, therefore well out of the reach of the majority of those in need of treatment.
Read about the ensuing battle and the rest of our review over at Road Rash Reviews
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