Where AIDS Steals Life by the Millions The only reason we are dying is because we are poor. That is the heartbreaking refrain heard twice in the documentary "Fire in the Blood," about an urgent and shameful topic: the millions of Africans with AIDS who have died because they couldn't afford the antiretroviral drugs that could have saved their lives. Former President Bill Clinton, the intellectual property lawyer James Love, the journalist Donald G. McNeil Jr. of The New York Times and others offer perspectives on this situation and also on the concern that pharmaceutical companies value profits over lives. The film is jammed with telling information - for instance, branded drug companies have made 90 percent of profits from rich Western countries, with half from the United States - that might help account for why so many deaths in Africa were ignored. While the facts presented are certainly ominous, the haunting score is distracting. It is the sort of tinkly music usually heard in a suspense film just before a mystery is revealed. Yet, when played unrelentingly without that reveal, it instead ends up sounding like New Age electronic music in an acupuncturist's office. It's easy to overlook this minor irritation, though, and the otherwise rudimentary filmmaking, because of the depth and gravity of the subject. This virtuous stance is not unusual for issue-based documentaries, but a film with such illuminating content deserves a more artful vehicle for its moving message.