Dying for Drugs

Off air
Hard-hitting investigation into the global power of the world's most profitable business: the pharmaceutical industry.

The programme reveals just how far drug companies are prepared to go to get their drugs approved and what they will do to make sure they get the prices they want.

Africa
The team sees how one of the world's biggest drug companies experimented on children without their parents' knowledge or consent.

Canada
The team reveals how a drug company attempted to silence a leading academic who had doubts about their drug.

South Korea
Cameras follow the attempts of desperately ill patients to make a leading drug company sell them the drugs they need to save their lives at an affordable price.

Honduras
The team uncovers the brutal consequences of drug companies' pricing policies.

This is a powerful film with alarming implications for everyone whose health depends on prescription medicines. If the power of these multi-nationals remains unchecked, many more people will soon be dying for drugs.

For more information about the issues raised in the programme check out the links on P2–5