BSMS Stop AIDS Campaign is now finally up and running, and with our first official committee meeting on Thursday things should start moving forward quickly. Just in time for the ‘Training and Planning Day’ and the big London march approaching in March! The committee is as follows:
President: [...]
G8 Finance Ministers meet in Essen, Germany on February 9th-12th.
As AIDS Campaigners we worked really hard in the lead up to the 2005 G8 Summit in Gleneagles to secure the commitment to Universal Access to Treatment by 2010. 18 months on, despite committing themselves to this historic target, the G8 leaders have not produced [...]
This is just a quick summary of what we’ve been busying ourselves with… Any questions are very welcome… just email ssaidsed@yahoo.co.uk
WAD
WAD was a great success and despite the awful timing for our uni (everyone has exams on or around the 1st!), we were involved in a number of initiatives in and around Edinburgh:
The Stop AIDS [...]
BSMS Stop AIDS is still in its embryonic stage, but we’re growing up fast!
Unfortunately, without a committee and with WAD taking place around the time of exams for us, it was hard to organise any events so we mainly had to enjoy the Sussex Stop AIDS day, who had teamed up with Unisex and Amnesty [...]
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For an overview of the activities organised by Student Stop AIDS Societies throughout the UK to mark World AIDS Day 2006 download our report here:World AIDS Day Activities Report
Pharmaceutical company Novartis is taking the Indian government to court ovver it’s patent law. If Novartis is successful in its challenge against the Indian government and its patent law, more medicines are likely to be patented in India, making it very difficult for generic producers to make affordable versions of them. This could affect millions of people around the world who depend on medicines produced in India.
Providing access to cheap drugs in developing countries usually focuses on the production of so-called generic drugs, cheap copies of existing drugs which can be used in developing countries under the flexibilities that are provided for by TRIPS.
