Bill Nighy in Malawi
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Channel: Oxfam GB · 2012 · Nonprofits & Activism
Oxfam ambassador Bill Nighy recently visited Malawi, to highlight the plight of people living with HIV in one of the poorest countries in the world. An estimated 1 million people are living with the HIV virus in Malawi, but only a third are receiving free treatment, meaning 650,000 are still going without. This is despite the fact it costs just 23 pence a day to keep someone with the HIV virus alive by giving them treatment with ARVs. Nighy said, "So many people aren't getting the medicines they need through no fault of their own, simply because they drew the short straw geographically. I met people who had been literally rescued from death by medicines which cost only 23 pence a day. "I choose not to listen to the armchair cynics, whose philosophical opposition to aid bewilders me. I choose to listen to Mara Banda, a lady I met in Malawi who is living with the HIV virus, who told me quietly and simply that she would be dead if it were not for medicines paid for by our aid." This film was made with the support of the European Commission: http://ec.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/
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