Turning an epidemic into an emotion

Simon Fraser University invites everyone to a mul­ti­me­dia pre­sen­ta­tion on TB, HIV, human rights, access to med­i­cines, and global health.

Jonathan Smith, Direc­tor of the Visual Ethnog­ra­phy Project at Yale Uni­ver­sity, will be giv­ing an exclu­sive pre­view of an in-progress doc­u­men­tary about fam­i­lies caught up in the south­ern African TB and HIV epi­demics.

He will be describ­ing his expe­ri­ences liv­ing with four TB and HIV infected mine work­ers in rural South Africa as a part of his grad­u­ate research in epi­demi­ol­ogy, screen­ing doc­u­men­tary video from his field work, and host­ing an open dis­cus­sion on human rights and global health.

Mine workers in South Africa are subjected to a process known as "sending them home to die". Mine workers who become sick with tuberculosis and HIV are fired, denied helath care and sent back to their home communities without access to essential medicines. A staggering 760,000 new cases of TB every year are llinked to this practice.

More information:

• “They Go to Die” pre­sen­ta­tion and discussion with Jonathan Smith, Visual Epidemiology Project, Yale University
• 7:00 PM, Thurs­day, March 15th
• W2 Media Arts Cafe, atrium of Woodward’s build­ing, 111 W. Hast­ings Street, Vancouver

Note: This event is free and open to the public but advanced registration is required and seat­ing is lim­ited.