Doctors Without Borders and the Right to Health Foundation start a cinema series in La Nau

  • November 4th, 2016
 
Miradas sin Fronteras

Doctors Without Borders and the Right to Health Foundation, in collaboration with the Universitat de València, start on Monday, 7 November, the cinema series ‘Miradas sin Fronteras’ (‘Looks without borders’), in La Nau. The first film will be ‘Medical Research: Houston, we have a problem’. The projection, free of charge, will take place in the Aula Magna, at 19:30. Later, there will be a debate.

In the colloquium they will intervene Vanessa López, director of the Right to Health Foundation, and Toni Bayón, an expatriate doctor from Doctors Without Borders who has participated in projects in Niger and Bolivia. Antonio Ariño, vice-principal for Culture and Equality of the Universitat de València, will moderate the debate. 

In the documentary, experts and opinion leaders of all around the world give convincing and hair-raising data about the out-dated research model, which directly affects public health. 

To this day, the lack of access to essential drugs is not just a problem for developing countries, although for them the problem is even bigger. The hepatitis C cases or the most innovative cancer drugs show us how the system of innovation and development of drugs is globally broken. 

The challenge is to build an efficient and sustainable system of R&D and commercialisation of drugs so that it could guarantee the access to drugs to all the ones who need them at an affordable price. The documentary analyses this challenge and offers alternatives and solutions.

All the film series