After a long wait we are finally ready to push ahead with the patent pool. At the beginning of June the UNITAID board met and some final agreements were met.

The Patent Pool now had offices, full time members of staff and an office and is ready to start engaging with Pharmaceutical companies and getting their  patents in the pool!

This means we too are ready to start phase 2 of our patent pool campaign and start really pushing those pharmaceuticals to join the pool, and our efforts are much needed, as by April 2011 there must be 3 separate patents from 3 different pharmaceutical companies in the pool, and by June 2011 there must be 5 patents in total in the pool.

This means there is a lot of work to do between now and summer 2011 to make sure the patent pool does not fail, and pharmaceutical companies give up their patents in support of those most in need around the world.

Student Stop AIDS Campaign has some exciting activities planned for you at your freshers fairs, throughout the speaker tour and for World AIDS Day, more information to follow in campaign packs.

But get ready for an exciting and busy year encouraging and supporting pharmaceutical companies to join this much needed pool to help provide people across the world attain the life saving medicines they need.

We have gained success in setting up a patent pool when those around us thought it wouldn’t be done, and we will succeed again in getting the patent pool up and running!

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