The Student Stop AIDS Campaign together with the APPG on AIDS are hosting the Unite to Fight AIDS Speaker Tour event in Committee Room 12, the Palace of Westminster, on Tuesday the 21st of October at 5pm.
The event should prove to be extremely powerful. We are bringing four young people from Zambia, Uganda, Ireland and [...]
A huge step towards fair drug pricing and access to treatment was made this week when UNITAID, the international drug purchasing facility, gave the green light to exploration of the creation of patent pools for HIV and AIDS drugs. The hope is that the six-month research phase will lead to a working model of the [...]
With only 2 years until the G8’s 2010 target for universal access the deadline for weakly reiterating half-hearted old promises has well and truly expired, but leaders at this week’s G8 summit in Japan didn’t even really manage that.
The summit confirmed Stop AIDS campaigners’ fears by failing to take any concrete steps to deliver their [...]
A draft G8 communiqué leaked to the Financial Times on June 30th has raised concerns this group of rich and powerful countries are set to betray their promises to Stop AIDS at their annual meeting, this year being hosted by Japan.
An ambiguous pledge made by the Group of Eight countries in 2007 to spend £60 [...]
Halfway through the Millennium Development Goals time frame and two years before the 2010 deadline of universal access to treatment, prevention and care, 147 member states met in June to review progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS. The UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV and AIDS took place in New York [...]
DFID have launched their seven year HIV and AIDS strategy paper, ‘Achieving Universal Access’, which they believe will deliver the UK’s end of the bargain on delivering universal access, pledging £6 billion to improve health care systems and services by 2015. This pledge is great news, ensuring the long term, predictable funding vital to a [...]
The government have launched their new Strategy for tackling HIV in the developing world. Thanks to all who took action to remind them to keep their promises on achieving universal access. We have been campaigning to try and influence it all year as the strategy will have a huge influence on the global response [...]
On the 8th of February the University of Manchester Stop Aids Society met up with the Secretary of State for International Development Douglas Alexander MP. It was a unique opportunity that arose from the relationship built over the years with Tony Lloyd MP for Central Manchester. It was a memorable experience as this was an [...]
Welcome to the film forum.
If you have a great AIDS related film that you’re willing to share with other societies please add a new post with the details directly below. (You’ll need to mark the post category ‘Film Forum’ for it to appear here).
What we need to know:
- Title of the film
- Short description/ review.
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The first session that I attended on the second day of the Women Deliver Conference was run by some of the growing body of advocates and evidence-based projects that are calling for greater integration between Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) and HIV/AIDS responses. Though many people in the field have been asking for this [...]
