Our video is now available on YouTube and Facebook, enjoy:
Sheffield Boom Dynamite video on YouTube
Sheffield Boom Dynamite video on Facebook
Thank you to everybody who came and danced like crazy. Without you, it wouldn’t have been possible! We had lots of fun, and I had a good giggle editing it all together, so please watch [...]
Here are three other campaigns that are working on issues linked to the Stop AIDS Campaign. Have a read and follow the links to take action:
ActionAid’s put your foot down campaign is calling on the UK government to take action on violence against women – a major driver of HIV and AIDS in developing countries.
By [...]
Are you still not really sure what a patent pool is exactly? Kinda know what a patent pool is but don’t know what impact it could have? Do you find it tricky to get your head around international patent law? Well, count your lucky stars and get ready for next Wednesday, when we’ll be launching [...]
Starting from Monday, students across the country are throwing themselves headlong into a frenzy of events, stunts, fundraising, action-card signing, MP lobbying, planning, educating, informing, involving and whatever else it takes to make sure our Day of Action on the 24th March in Westminster is a huge success.
We want at least 100 students from all [...]
Over 40 Student Stop AIDS Campaigners converged on Brighton last weekend for our very busy three day annual training event. Old campaign hands from places like Sheffield and Nottingham were joined by some new blood from Bournemouth and Bath to hear from a series of expert speakers and to plot the course of the campaign [...]
lovely ones - - - just thought i’d attach this simple guide to all things “Trips”, it’s stolen from the Pharmaware website and is really useful for describing Patents, WTO and compulsory licensing…obviously we are all experts now but maybe good to have on stalls…??? x x x
Patenting, TRIPS, Compulsory Licensing – What is it [...]
We’re holding a joint film screening with the Cambridge Chinese Salon discussion group next week (coincidentally at the start of the Stop AIDS week of action!).
The film is ”Care and Love” (2007), which tells the story of Liu Xianhong, a Chinese villager who contracted HIV through a blood transfusion during childbirth. Lack of regulation in Chinese blood [...]
**NEWSFLASH**
Sheffield Stop AIDS Society would like to report that a certain song taught at the amazing Stop AIDS AGM, has been SCIENTIFICALLY proven to be the hardest thing to get out of your head.
Individuals traveling from Brighton to Sheffield last night struggled to remove the song from their heads, despite enormous effort. A randomized, [...]
A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine reports a potential cure for an HIV+ patient. The individual had HIV, and acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Amazingly, after a stem cell transplant for his AML, the patient appears not only to have been cured of his leukaemia, but also of his HIV.
The donor of [...]
The patent pool campaign took a huge leap forward last Wednesday when we totalled up the number of action cards we’ve got signed so far and headed off with students from Kings and UCL and representatives from across the Stop AIDS Campaign to Parliament to meet Ivan Lewis MP, the Under-Secretary of State for International [...]
