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Turning an Epidemic into an Emotion: Motivating Change in the Global Fight against TB and HIV/AIDS
March 15, 2012 7:00 PM
SFU International invites you 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.
This event is free and open to the public but advanced registration is required. Please click here to register.
