Late on Monday night UNITAID voted to create a patent pool for HIV medicines. This is a hugely important move which will help millions who need HIV treatment across the developing world.
This is a massive achievement for the Students Stop AIDS Campaign which has been ‘Pushing for the Pool’ for the last year and a [...]
At the beginning of this month the Student Stop Aids Steering Committee took the Patent Pool campaign to the head quarters of two influential pharmaceutical companies to ensure that they too were commemorating World Aids Day. In the eve of the UNITAID conference this was the perfect opportunity to highlight the appeal of the student [...]
With World AIDS Day done and dusted, here are some of things you did…
Leeds Stop AIDS had a very successful World AIDS day, raising over £730 throughout the day with a Balloon Pop Raffle, in which people paid £1 to pop a balloon and win a condom or a prize that had been kindly donated [...]
Here is a great fairy tale patent pool story which Ellie Messham ,a first year medic at Swansea and President to the Stop Aids society, got published in her university newsletter for World AIDS Day.
Here follows the story of the Ultimate Killer Virus and Magic Beans
No one is really sure where the Ultimate Killer Virus [...]
Exciting times! Here’s the press release from UNITAID’s board meeting yesterday:
http://www.unitaid.eu/en/20091215237/News/UNITAID-APPROVES-PATENT-POOL.html
