Shot on four continents, FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the story of the clash between the big pharmaceutical companies and Third World pacients diagnosed with AIDS, an economic war that caused huge human losses, waged at the end of the ’90s and the beginning of the new century. Patents and the right of the corporations to set their own prices amount to nothing less than a death sentence. Forbidding the import of generic medicine lead to the demise of over ten million people between the years of 1996, when the first anti-retroviral drugs were released, and 2003, when a trans-continental coalition of activists, former statesmen and producers of generic medicine succeeded in putting an end to the genocide. But for how long?
