More information about this years’ speaker tour will be sent to the societies in the next few weeks and next months newsletter will be a speaker tour special. But to wet your appetite here are the tour dates:
October November
12th - Cambridge 2nd - Nottingham
13th - Oxford 3rd - Birmingham
14th - Reading 4th -Liverpool
15th - Bath [...]
We will be sending all the societies a DVD of the patent pool animation in this years’ freshers’ packs. We would like to challenge you to find the best place you can show the animation to get as many people at your university and from the general public to see it. This could be projecting [...]
Put People First Campaigning Day on Friday 4 September 2009 at 10am-6pm in Central London
www.putpeoplefirst.org.uk/autumn
This autumn the G20 is back. On Friday 4 September, the G20 Finance Ministers are meeting in London to discuss the financial crisis, for the first time since April’s G20 summit. So far they’ve flunked the challenge of putting people first [...]
There have been lots of interesting developments with the patent pool campaign and specifically with the movements of the pharmaceutical companies.
When the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on AIDS published its ‘Treatment Timebomb’ report in the middle of July, it recommended the UNITAID patent pool as a way to increase access to HIV medication.
On the same [...]
The best week of the university calendar is just around the corner, and now is the time to start planning your society’s activities for freshers’ week. Freshers’ week is a great opportunity to show students what the Student Stop Aids Campaign does, what issues we campaign on and crucially recruit more people to our cause!
We [...]
In the Guardian online today, an interview with drug company GlaxoSmithKline’s head Andrew Witty. Quite a long report, but one interesting quote:
Witty says all he knows about Unitaid is what he has read in the papers. “The first point is I’m not saying no to anything because nobody’s actually put in front of me a [...]
SPW is running an exciting Youth Advocacy Programme: Advocates for Action.
We believe that young people in the developing world have the right to Sexual and Reproductive Health information and services. And we believe that decision makers aren’t doing enough to ensure this.
And through Advocates for Action SPW will be running training for young people [...]
