An article in the BMJ this week is warning of increasing difficulties with access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV/AIDS.
Although 4 million people in lower income countries have been enrolled in treatment programmes, 6 million more are in need. In addition, WHO guidelines have recently changed to recommend commencing ART earlier in the disease course. [...]
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
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 [...]
MSF have reported funding cuts for health in South Africa as a result of the financial crisis, and have critisised national and international donors for failing to step up to provide the required funding.
They describe clinics in South Africa that are unable to enrol newly diagnosed HIV-positive patients due to a lack of ARVs. The [...]
See http://www.flickr.com/photos/36792262@N08/ for the “Push for the Pool” Campaign photos from the Day of Action last week.
An editorial in this month’s Lancet is about GSK and patent pools if anyone is interested and can access the site:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60410-4/fulltext
We have several events coming up in the next few weeks - please come along!
Monday 2nd March:
- 5pm-7.30pm: We will be holding a stall in Interval, in the union
- 7.30pm: Introduction to the Campaign talk, Saptal Ram room in the union.
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Hello all,
I have been offered the film “We are together” (www.wearetogether.org) to show at universities, basically to publicise the film. I haven’t actually seen the film, and there may be some messages put across in the film that we don’t agree with. However, if anyone would like a copy of the film to [...]
