MIRRYENA DEEB

Beat It! 1999 Episode 7 - Special Report

In this episode the Beat It! team looked at what was withholding government from making antiretroviral treatment readily available to the HIV positive South Africans that could not afford to buy this life saving medication themselves.

Beat It! 2000 Episode 2 - Red Ribbon and Red Noose Award

The Red Noose is awarded to the hired gun of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturer's Association, Mirryena Deeb. The Red Ribbon goes to all the healthcare worker's whose hard and selfless work will contribute to the national roll-out of a prevention-of-mother-to-child-transmission programme.

Patient Abuse

Patient Abuse follows the events leading up to the formation of the Treatment Action Campaign and their struggles to access affordable quality treatment for all South Africans, by challenging the patent laws protecting the profits of multinational drug companies. Patient Abuse tells of how the Treatment Action Campaign grew from a handful of people on the steps of St Georges Cathedral to an organisation of thousands with support from activists around the globe. In April of 2001 the TAC was victorious when the PMA withdrew it's case.