Talk in school

Stop Aids Edinburgh are giving a talk in one of our local schools on Tuesday, I’m just wondering if anyone has any ideas for any interactive games we could play. We’ve already got the ’sex alphabet’, any others would be great. Hope you are all well. Tom

Updated- March 20th Day of Action!

Here are the latest plans for the mass action card hand-in:
We will have a whole day of action on Tue 20 March.
The overall aim is to get Benn’s head straight on AIDS before the G8 Development Minister’s meeting and to win the support of more MPs to push the UK government to take action!
The date [...]

Novartis Court Case urgent e-action and press stunt 14th February

The Novartis Court case scheduled for January 29th was postponed. The results of the hearing will now be announced on Thursday 15th February. Take action now to tell Novartis to drop the case!
Novartis was one of the 39 companies that took the South African government to court five years ago, in an effort to overturn [...]

Write to your MP about the Thai government’s issuing of a compulsory license for Kaletra.

Speak or write to your MP and ask them to write to the DTI and DFID to find out their position on the Thai government’s issuing of the compulsory license for Kaletra.
In theory DFID support countries in making full use of the TRIPS flexibilities. Are they prepared to publicly state their support [...]

Thailand issues a compulsory license to produce generic copies of Kaletra!

On 29th January 2007 the Thai Government issued a compulsory license to produce generic copies of Kaletra. Under the terms of the WTO’s TRIPS agreement, a country is permitted to issue a compulsory license without entering into negotiations with the patent holder if it is facing a ‘national emergency’. It is hoped by many HIV [...]

Nottingham test post


University of Sheffield Student Stop AIDS Soc!

Yes! Sheffield has a Stop AIDS Society! Hoorah!
Things are very much in their infancy, but we are starting to get off the ground! We have some exciting events coming up….
Wednesday 14th February - Refresher Fair 10AM - 3PM, OCTAGON (next to Union)
Come and speak to us at our stall (we’ll be the ones in [...]