In conjunction with World AIDS Day (Tuesday Dec. 1st), the TUSM
chapters of Physicians for Human Rights and the Global Health Interest
Group (plus co-sponsors SNMA, LAMSA, & AMSA!) are hosting several
films screenings and lectures, including:<br><br>-a documentary film, Deliver US (with the director), about HIV/AIDS in Boston <br>-patents and access to affordable medicines in India<br>-the Bhopal explosion 25 years ago and its ensuing health effects<br>
-Salud!
A film and discussion about Cuba's health system and international
humanitarian assistance program in Africa, Asia, and Latin America<br><b><br>All are welcome and food will be served! </b><br><br>See details below: (plus more to follow)<tt><br>for questions or more information please contact <a href="mailto:eugene.schiff@tufts.edu">eugene.schiff@tufts.edu</a> or 312-731-6652</tt><br>
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<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><b>Monday November 30th - 7pm - Sackler Building Room 221 (Second Floor) </b> <br><br><b>Patents and Profits: Novartis, Gleevac and Access to Affordable Medicines in India and Beyond<br>
</b><br>A discussion with <b>Dr. Gopal Dabade</b>, Indian physician, scholar, activist and member of Drug Action-Karnataka, All India Drug Action Network, Jagruti<br><br><b>Indian Food will be Served!!</b><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------<br>
<b><br>Tuesday Dec. 1st - 6pm Room 812 (8th Floor - TUSM Sacker Building)</b><br><br><b>WORLD AIDS DAY FILM SCREENING - with Director Katherin T. Hall of Stony Hill Pictures</b><br><br><b>Deliver Us -</b> A documentary film about communities affected by HIV/AIDS in Boston<br>
<br>Discussion about film and the impact and struggles to overcome the local and global AIDS epidemic to follow<br><b><br>Thai food will be served</b><br><br>-----------------------------------------<br><b><br>Wednesday Dec. 2nd 12:15-1:15pm</b> TUSM Location (TBA)<br>
<br><b>Remembering Bhopal: Lessons Learned from the World's Worst Industrial Disastour - 25 Years Ago<br><br>Indian Food will be Served!!</b><br><br>------------------------------------<br><br><b>Friday Dec. 4th<br><br>
Film Screening<br>Salud! </b>Location - TBA<br><br>Find out what puts Cuba on the map in the quest for global health ...<br><br><i>Against
the alarming backdrop of the global health crisis and deteriorating
public health systems in even the richest nations, ”Salud! tells the
little-known story of Cuba: a poor country overcoming its lack of
resources to provide universal health care and help other developing
nations do the same. <br><br>A feature documentary, ”Salud! is
directed by Academy Award nominee Connie Field and co-produced by Gail
Reed. The film spans three continents to look at the philosophy and
health professionals placing Cuba on the map in the worldwide movement
to make health care a global birthright. Today, Cubans are among the
world's healthiest people, despite the island's poverty. Cuba's
volunteer corps now posts 28,000 health professionals in 68 countries;
and Cuban medical schools will graduate an unprecedented 100,000 new
doctors from developing countries over the next decade.<br><br>The
film's cameras reach into The Gambia, rural South Africa, coastal
villages of Honduras and river settlements in the Amazon, where a Cuban
is often the first doctor a poor community has ever seen. In some
nations they staff entire health systems. In all, they take with them
the experience and philosophy of their own community-oriented,
preventive and universal health care model fundamentally at odds with a
global wave of healthcare privatization.<br><br>”Salud! questions what
propels Cuban doctors to serve where most others won't, and grapples
with the tensions their presence sometimes provokes.</i><br>