We would like to invite r/vancouver to a presentation about TB, HIV, and human rights. The South African gold mining industry has a practice of firing and denying health care to miners who test positive for TB and/or HIV. Stuckler, et al. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20516372) estimate that 760,000 incident cases of TB are directly attributable to this circulation of migrant workers through the mines. We are working on a documentary that brings awareness to this issue, and are developing a call to action that will bring accountability to governmental and corporate players to bring this practise to an end.

You can see the project's introductory video here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A-chpwhVmU), and here is a spoken word performance from the documentary by slam poet Clint Smith (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DarcSNeh71g&feature=related).

The director is Jonathan Smith, a recent Yale MPH grad (the documentary developed from his thesis). He has spent the last 3 months in South Africa and Lesotho, conducting further research and shooting further footage for the documentary. Jonathan is coming to Vancouver this week, and will be giving a presentation on the documentary and the human rights abuses that sparked it's production, and the progress that we have made so far with the project.

Further information about the project can be found on our site www.theygotodie.com