Film at UEA on 12th March ("They go to die")

 This may be of interest if you are able to get to UEA on the evening of the 12th of March:               

Coming to Norwich…..

“They Go To Die”

   a film documentary by Jonathan Smith, an epidemiologist from Yale University.

Followed a Q & A with Jonathan

Venue :  Congregation Hall, UEA

Admission : Free

Date : Tuesday 12^th March 2012 8.00pm (doors 7.30pm)

They Go to Die

Jonathan Smith, an epidemiologist from Yale University, has done a huge amount to raise the profile of the TB and mining crisis. He has been working on a documentary film that RESULTS (www.results.org.uk) will support in conjunction with university student Medsin groups and show throughout the UK in March 2013. You can see the trailer for this powerful film at: http://theygotodie.com/.

The 70-minute feature-length documentary highlights the issues of health, human rights, community and the legal complexities of  the Tuberculosis (TB) epidemic in the Gold Mining industry of southern Africa.

In the making of his documentary, Jonathan lived with and filmed the lives of four mines, all whom had acquired TB while working in Gold Mines of southern Africa and then sent back to their villages when they were no longer well enough to work, by their employers -  often with no con­tin­u­a­tion of healthcare or means for treat­ment.  This prac­tice is often referred to as “being sent home to die”.

Jonathan`s powerful film paints a por­trait of com­mon humanity, providing a clear and powerful message to promote change for the lives of some the most vulnerable people in the world.

RESULTS Norwich are organising this free screening in collaboration with the MEDSIN UEA and the UEA Infectious Diseases and Pathology Society.

If you would like to attend you can register at http://ueatheygotodie.eventbrite.co.uk  or contact RESULTS Norwich on 07910166544.

Mark Pointer

RESULTS NORWICH

For further information contact Mark on 07910166544 (mobile), or email resultsnorwichuk@btinternet.com

THEY GO TO DIE, UK Film Tour will run from 7^th – 20^th March, starting off in Edinburgh and traveling across the country and finally reaching London to culminate on World TB Day, 24^th March, with an event in Parliament in London.

Jonathan Smith is a lecturer in Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases and Global Health at Yale University School of Public Health, where he researches TB and HIV in the context of mining and migrancy in sub-Saharan Africa. He is an affiliate of the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute and founding director of Visual Epidemiology.