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so presently were being confronted by a new series of pathogens that are emerging out of the deep forest. primarily because planet earth is better now. now as planet far, the animals that are reservoirs for pathogens are coming up, right up against new agriculture, spilling over into the livestock. and then from there, spreading out onto the global travel, the science is in the middle of a political battle. what direction are we going to continue to conduct our
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civilization? are we going to continue on this pathway? or are we going to choose a different path in the path that the lends itself to have a better balance between our right to be here on the planet and survive. and the animals and landscape upon which we depend in order to do that. the human societies have long faced the subject of disease. despite so many breaks and loading medicines, we find ourselves living under the shadow of pandemic that we struggle to contend. we have destroyed by that, we have the plan. and the time it was here at our expense
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at the expense of these global market, it is just an inevitable. the warranty is that there's no handle. this thing is going to be a force all over to the southern africa. so recently live series, the worst impacts c h i. v, pandemic. millions of people have died. millions of lives have been turned upside down. then along comes covered. and we have another pandemic test to on top of h r v c h r v experience taurus, as long about science,
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vaccines and house of justice. but when it comes to code 19, they will learn anything from us. before i became a filmmaker, i worked in h, i v prevention back red hot lessons will that not just in south africa, but globally we learn the few people suffer and die whether strong commitment to public health and that with is the political will. everyone can have access to the medicines they need. as a cert wheeler this the hard way an ugly off to a lot of unnecessary suffering. that is now a danger which has become a threat to us all. it is a deadly disease,
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and there is no known cure the sofa. it's being consigned to small groups, but it's spread. if you ignore age, it could be the death of. so don't die as many of us were 1st introduced to h r. v. susie's kind of messaging of the plantation was if you become infected, you only have yourself to blame the people who are most affected by h r. v which somehow narrow down to the for h is according to the us center for disease control in the 1980s. these were homosexuals, patients, periodontics the we would tell the virus originated enough to monkey which we now know to be true.
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but the lack of information about how the virus jump from one species to another, to that, to some pretty offensive conclusions. and spoke the plain game to the emerging health crisis. the subject matter is so i've seen so remote it until we are ready to discourage and do our duty level best to eliminate the types of activities which have caused the spread of the age. that demi god only wherever, going to solve it. 1978 representatives, 134 countries, 67 international organizations. and i've also asked h h s to add the aids virus to the list of contagious diseases, for which emigrants in alien seeking permanent residents in the united states can be denied entry the
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the. so when you ask the question, does a type the pause aids question, it does advise us cause central how does a 5 us cause issues it cost 19, nineties and becky, at all good again, society seems deeply skeptical of anti retroviral drugs. well enough for goodness his argument was that a charge the english parts of it continuing conspiracy against africans treatment rights was declared near impossible in practical and not cost effective. people deny listen and name. he was so adamant about how toxic and twitter laws with that it almost seemed that they would do anything. and
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his paula never to allow them to be used in south africa. the moved to them have been put to this age of in south africa over this 2 day conference then will be infected in either the united kingdom or the us and the whole of this. yeah, and i think that's an important and frustration was ronnie. hi, because richard nation side to access to the new drugs develop to treat jersey. but not south africa. not unless you had lots of money that is, for most of us, h r v infection was a death sentence. we had to find committee calls kings really odd around the exclusion that they had about which the southern was considered innocent enough to access a l. v. as those were regarded as nooses, who a needle stick introduced somebody who was right, could access and these, but not somebody who was gay. the somebody who had consensual sex and then became
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a try the positive. those are really difficult and off times and i think it's a young lawyer active is it really opened my eyes? the the faded off i stopped as doesn't apply with science. the failure of not teaching a chevy lies in the political will of all the government to pieces it was a typical time it to the power of the people through the treatment action campaign to make a r v. keeping a degree out of it. we do monday the parties of the square to the media the as well as the problem big
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keep try denying the existence of keep them evictions. campaign put up the entire miserable effect of a tri, denise face, the camera staging and whining and depleting. healthcare 5 years had problems full of quotes, children and features in the course of a few years. the treatment action campaign, aided by former president nelson mandela, ensure that this issue was firmly placed on the international agenda of the as the lead is the global health response president george bush onset, but championing the child typical efforts. the doctor and rule south africa describes his frustration. he says we have no medicines,
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many hospitals tell people you've got age. we can't help you go home and die. and age and miraculous medicines, no person should have to hear those words. the programs being hated by don't to anthony fantasy, it benefits it, some of the decision, one of the major companies to drop the patients voluntarily. this of the, to drugs being made available at a fraction of surprise. but just for the developing world, for millions around the clouds, the age came too late. in south africa alone, we currently have 9000000 people who are h, i v positive twin name. and the number
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at this time in the ninety's do a no pause, use to see a person changing to a skeleton uses the so scary. so yeah, i h i v i add on to this is less than the simply great campus. the, the spot having one of the largest intervention policies and programs in the world
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. we still have not been able to control a tubby transmission for this in terms of what we've done. and so i turned my attention to working in a heavy vaccine research so that we could find effective ways to prevent transmission. and i'm so glad that you've chosen to participate in this study. thank you for contributing to finding solutions personally for myself at home and uh oh my whole family is getting a bit emotional and i'm, i'm so kind of what h i b was my mother, my father, my uncle's, everyone. so we suffered a lot when i lost my parents because of the age i re told me, oh, that's help me. my husband was let me tell you,
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got to go to go live and people get a good big food from people because i've been trying to understand if my mother was still alive, my parents until a life my life would have changed. so h a v is, i don't know how to explain. i'm very scared of a chevy. so that's why, what is what one that tries to something does going out in the future for this pay, it has to be presented. glenda gray is leading an international collaboration to find an h i v vaccine spearheaded by the h i v vaccine charles network recovery heads up. this fost organization is publicly funded for the us government. the
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vaccines had been left to the development by pharmaceutical companies. they, since with the side effect seems they were going to investigate and the reality is, is that that often is a balance between their perceived market and societal need. and h, i fi that was a huge. the sales i made, there was an enormous amount of infection in the other developed world. and the non pharmaceutical market was so you saw very rapid dropout rapids this one really needed to provide the clinical infrastructure to do the clinical trials . this is the most expensive part of the to a drug development. and we are going to, as a society,
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creating infrastructure the i'm learning about the one, the antibody media to differentiate a clinical trial with the most beautiful cutting edge faxing science. it is taking decades to develop something, the targets, each of these unique, the ability to evaluate the traditional vaccine. it feels like we're on the costs of something really big here. the, the reason we call it number one of your c o, one was the 1st potent antibody that we were able to obtain from one of the volunteers turned out to be an individual who was in clinical trials volunteering
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at age donated his blood and the serum had these tremendously potent antibodies against the virus, he was happy to volunteer and he knew that we isolated this at the time. and when that was done, several apps found and were actually making the lab protein the anybody that was able to kill block each ivy. very po in the study, we're not giving a vaccine. we're actually giving the antibody protein itself. if a person individual had those bodies before they were actually exposed, it could be completely prevented from infection. so we're almost taking a step beyond the vaccine. we're skipping a step and actually giving the body the immune proteins itself. the human this
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stuff, this, that someone who has h i v infection could actually provide someone who doesn't have h, i v infection to actually prevent them from getting which idea what a wonderful story, what, what a wonderful example of biology. the, the genesis of this undertaking started on a napkin on the 19th floor of this hotel. we sit down in sort of trod on a napkin like, how would we test this was ended up being a pretty massive undertaking. the global pandemic sneak global effort loss. so when you're dealing with viruses that are rapidly mutare to the reason we know what we know today is because scientists have cooperated across many countries for travelers. we've been moving
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increasingly in the direction of research, becoming a private effect determined by competition and exclusivity. the big take out some h r v was the only massive investment into public health and sharing research to contain a deputy pandemic in 2020 this put us in a prime position to collaborate numerous international vaccine problems of the to have cars involved. the hood of kind of a tech scene opportunities, technically search. and we need to to make sure that even though we do the stalls, we have to make sure that we have access to the
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good so we have to be committed to the in game. yeah. and in game is an affordable intervention for the field. when we started with h i d, it was very difficult to isolate an antibody from person in 20192020. we could do that in a matter of weeks, or we can do it 10 times a 100 times faster and more efficiently. we have isolated antibodies from cobit infected people by the hundreds in a few weeks. i think of h,
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i v a little bit like the nasa space program it, it brought to bear all kinds of technologies that are bearing fruit in other areas . and one of those areas is emerging viruses like cold the, the biotech firm during those therapeutics announced this morning that the 1st 8 participants in the 1st phase of its cobit 19 vaccine trial, develop some antibodies after just one single dose. now that's a promising sign from the trial done in collaboration with the national institutes of health of nations with maxine producing capacity pulled billions into the development of cause we track scenes in return for funding the manufacturer of vaccines participating drug companies like mcdonough given full intellectual property rights, probably the finished product. all governments have
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essentially stepped into the risk investment and in the idea will public money should be great to public access. the changes of thousands of volunteers signed up to participate in clinical trials. i to join join as of 12 in the belief that my country would gain access to those vaccines that was successful, the bike. now we've got the us decades or maybe 416 and fonts from 3 on through eating group developing, fixing. and so that means our opportunity to gain access to the succeeds are very limited as an individual country. this was perhaps the 1st sign that things were
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going astray, was south africa's access to vaccines. i submitted an income country. i want so involved in vaccine development. there was no excuse for us not to have pre purchased surprise for our own population. still, they would always be kofax. kofax color aims to ensure that a free country gets fair and equitable access to eventual cove and 19 vaccines. it's not about one country versus another. it's about one warren protected the sitting at the centre of infectious disease control cas county file chain. for decades, he's being behind all of a key interventions set up prevented outbreaks from becoming global pandemic about
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science vaccines health think just, i'm trying to find out. it's a well like anything from out. i enjoy the experience in south africa for this time of global cove. at 19 human societies have long faced the threat of disease. and despite so many breakthroughs in motor medicine, we find ourselves living under the shadow of kind democrats that we struggle to contain excuse me, priority health of the people that you're working with. questions about that,
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sitting at the centre of infectious disease control because kennedy file change for decades. he's being behind a for key interventions that have prevented outbreaks from becoming global pandemic . a bone seeker sauce united, but his life's work. his passion has sent his around a charge. me. why don't you do this? why don't you, why don't you think successful vaccines are against diseases in which ultimately the immune system clears the virus. so when you do a vaccine, you designed it exactly to act like a natural infection. don't want to do that with h i d because you know, the natural infection doesn't reduce a good movie spots. so you got to do better with nature.
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now managing sub legs and shows and solving. he's a certain amount of size by monday to go up in o. m i z. the windows will pile as 107. this is the condo noon. then land got we're novice, so the total amount is us and then given i know find it was some 7. you have a pleasant hey click that and did it on my end, it took a couple of weeks after you get to visit the other kids. what i'd say about that is that so total passed from one another to how much i was going this distance and i'm driving this isn't some what that it was the kids and pre
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owned you. some of the next scene is the agent that women need. that's the agency you don't have to worry about the high h i v because you have something in your body to protect you. as any tomlins to the with the salt in mind that causes an h i v only 2 of the many. so, you know, take viruses that have jumped into humans. we need to know why in recent decades, this is happening with increasing occurrence, the
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presently we're being confronted by a new series of pathogens that are emerging out of the forest and spilling over into human populations. and that seems to be increasing. uh, since the start of the century. there's been some brilliant work done by scientists to illuminate the origins of h. i v. patrice han in her group in 2006. we're able to identify to ship populations in south eastern camera room that were hosting, simian immunodeficiency viruses, that were the closest related to h i. b one a group that followed 2 years later led by michael barbie. were able to put a date on that spill over event. the event happened in 19 o 8 gifford take 20 years on either side of that of what was going on in 19
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o 8 in this particular spot in south eastern cameron. it was a period of colonization, and you have the french and german attempting to subjugate the local indigenous groups into a new global economy. the, the loading of central africa is right infers, required to launch workforce to keep up with the bonds for exports from the global know to feed all these workers. corporations actually employed people. mice to hump out push meet the
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they will probably individual jumps of virus from chips, the humans because they use it as bush me a man gets, in fact he's out hunting the gym. he gives it to his wife. she gets infected, they're monogamous. they both get sick, they both die. you don't notice until you've returned civilization. the it could have happened 50 years ago, a 100 years ago, 200 years ago. but it happened with the right constellation of perturbing society. people start doing trucking. they stay away from home, just the normal practices of us society, retail, the spread of infectious disease.
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the same plan story lands can be shifted upon cobit 19 of the stars one emerged in 2002. it came out of fat and central china and a lot of work since then mapped out all the different types of corona viruses. cross central and southern china. increased expectational landscape, increased the spillover events into all sorts of other species that are suddenly finding themselves being sold at market the
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planet or is better known. now as far as the, there's a lot of focus on the gps coordinates, the actual spot in which the virus emerged, the focus that was serving as a means of green washing the broader global political economy. that was, in fact, driving the emergence of these new pathogens we began to look at what it costs are gifts of capital. how of capital moves on one side of the world to the other. we came to the conclusion that places like london in new york, hong kong which are the centers of capital, are the worst disease hotspots on the planet. in part because as being the source of the capital, driving the deforestation and development from one side of world to the other,
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they were serving as the primary causes for the spill over events of pathogens from wild life, into light stuff in humans. the and then one day, a virus jumps from a bet to another animal to human. and then now it's not sexual practice. we're on lucky enough to have a virus that spectacularly efficient in spreading from person to person by the respiratory route. and there's not much you can do about that. but as you guys would do in an effort to lock in your cells into your house, but you can't do that forever. and that's our respiratory infection scripts. every time we have an epidemic that's just an affirmation of our scenes. we all have the receptor for the virus and her nose,
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the but she will or the viruses density. virus is closer to personal contact, people who live in high density. so is this fair? it is something brought out and i'll talk to patients throughout the world. you got to understand the social determinants of health. you know, in the united states with cove it, we have an extraordinary disparity. where is african americans and latino x and asian americans? their inspection rate and depth rate is known as the higher the . so when you approaching a disease, you need to understand if you don't understand that you're not going to get your arms around the disease. so many of
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us particularly view black sample doesn't match interview in the global south. on living in a wealthy nation, you're hanging on to life bias right? then these pancakes come alone, toby h r d and the also begins to just desktop the the how do we need to if it demick when we have no support for the prayer and we have no support for the sick. and so not only are we going to see people dying from cove
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at 19 in the country, we're going to see people dine from other diseases like a chevy, and to be the new york state now has more reported corona virus cases than any country in the world world wide, it's clear the public health care systems as a last fortress against pandemic, watts. if bertram's, and in the united states, the pioneer privatization causes showing how deadly these to come, notify the social right to house. the u. s. was not prepared for this. pandemic, in effect, a band in public health. a cobit 19 outbreak showed this in uh, in open uh clarity. when the top administration took over into the pandemic preparation,
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he divested out of public health. that's in part how we've arrived at this apparent clash between science on the one hand and comp on the other. the boy don't catch up with toby found. he remains diplomatic about the groups that phone between him and as a president we were consider the best prepared country for paying them. but as it turns out, when you get a walk or light cove at 19, you never as prepared as you really want to be. so that was the tension that sort of merged into some political divisiveness in the country. the 28000000 americans are without insurance, even after obamacare,
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24000000 americans are under insured. whole slots of the country are in essence disconnected out of our capacity to intervene in their health of the mm hm . and he told me, actually to get where it is, but was covered with we're looking at the end of this year. well, it's been more than a decade where we started that vaccine were in h, i. d. and 1986 is ever the apps study. if it works, if we do get protection, will be the 1st in a multi step process of getting very good protection, bypass the transfer of the in definitely worth the invest.
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particularly among women in south africa who are at such a norm is risk of getting infect at around the same time as the 1st coverage vaccines were guiding emotions here, approval of the results of the trial were released, providing some hope at last for a charge. the vaccine, the so now i'm going to show you the results. ok. ok. so this shows you that the that the infection rate was low in the, in the treatment alms and then fusion, um, it shows us that the infusion did what cookies. so let's say you see the same thing
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a positive, a positive results. i'm very happy. is there an amazing, amazing? well, this is a legacy to your parents. okay, so i wanted to bring in the what's a good results coming out of the trial? i've actually seen that prevents a charging is finally insight. but what was this really mean for the? well, it's paul, who's the vaccine, get to the people who need it for like covered will pay to be used to live in supplies, ensuring higher profits for a small group of powerful companies. there is a growing concerned,
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as we end 2020, about why it is taking so long for the country to receive the coverage 19 vaccine. the entire world has promised solid guarantee of the beginning of this pandemic. but at the same time, rich countries were already buying up supplies. what we call the advance markets commitments will pre dosages of something that has not yet on the market. 13 percent of the wills population will reside in which countries had bought, toppled and half of the wells potential supply of faxing is coming. vaccine nation is a new, a new to vaccine nationalism a vote for the other countries. in fact, some cases to a $3.00 and $1.00 because even 5 times the amount that's required for the population. generally when it comes to other vaccines that they're being introduced into public immunization programs against life threatening diseases. sticking 10 to 20 as before. does that seem to become available in low income countries compared
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to ending? because you can find from this is where we were with the h i v. pandemic ac is often the therapeutic were available in the west. we have not received them and we lost 10000000 people. is the old movie again? we have no access to vaccine. the . we will let down the garden parks. okay. we've got to december believing that the whole world was coming together to purchase vaccines. not knowing that we'd been curled into a little corner, whilst others ran off and said to what the surprise was deliberate.
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those with the resources pushed their way to the front of the cube and to control the production assets. same thing, the paid on an age of 8. if you rely on charity and it's really not only on the benevolence of the pharmaceutical industry, you work secure. not that are doing hard, sorry to take such a risk to peg a whole nations health and welfare of charity seems crazy to me. especially as we know there's some variance, a closing worldwide concern because of their ability to dodge anti bodies. surely the safe thing to do would be to flock the world with providing scenes to get the virus that extra to mutate. viruses do not mutate unless they are allowed to replicate and spread. if you prevent the virus from spreading,
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it will not mutate and you will not get another very using the idea of this being a gigantic clinical trial, dr. glen to grey and professor larry curry. organize a shipment of 500000 vaccines into south africa. that would work against the very dominant at the time and be getting to overwhelm our hospitals. long day, long, long day, and long a long, 14 days the hopefully will be able to explain how familiar and health care was because we didn't get the vaccine to them. the said raised the game to be fantastic. is this going to be misery? the
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we have millions of immunosuppressed people in our country and these millions of potential ways of us for variance of concern africa becomes the says, pool of variance of consumers. and we don't have vaccines. and so things of this kind of good with and was the throughout africa, we have see that wherever h i v became endemic. so the tuberculosis, the waves of infectious diseases or influencing shot at the same time, the higher the burden of disease, the more public health systems get on the mind. because we can't care for us, it will threaten but deadly mutations that one day may not be able to respond to our vaccines at all. this is a vicious circle trying out in our lifetime,
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with deadly consequences for the entire world. the peyton set prevented people getting a chart of the medicine. what devastating for that level of self failure to love this with covered because it might be a big nothing less than a crime against humanity. it's somebody capitalism marching else. the waltz mutual disruption, the surely it's time we find the breakout dependency on the pharmacy. typical companies actually began introduce or 20 years ago was h. i v drugs, the so water society, from this time, this time, democrats that we have encroach from nature to the extent that now it's only
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a matter of time before we face and now the effect that seems clear enough. but what about the most difficult issue of how prepared we are for lots to come, the coverage has revealed that outcome to approach to public health is simply not working. maybe this is our last challenge to go back to our the pulse we once traveled. health is it basically right? not letting the market determine who gets access to innovation. know, treating the drive yourself as a charity case and setting us into a petri dish of variance. not letting requests for profit status or further into catastrophe. is it really such
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a radical idea to put people 1st the, the, the, the, the weather brought to you by visit cuts, a lot of ground to cover. and this one for the americas. let's go, is always great to have you along a half look at this.

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