Two years ago, world leaders were given a huge global mandate to Make Poverty History: to increase aid, cancel many countries’ debts, and to ensure Universal Access to HIV Treatment by 2010.
But they haven’t done nearly enough. More than five million people living with HIV and AIDS still do not have access to life-saving medicines. [...]
The night of Saturday June 2nd marks an International Night of Solidarity.
Since 2004, people in Germany have observed a “Night of Solidarity” on June 2nd. The purpose is to mobilise people and organisations to come together to raise awareness about AIDS and to put pressure on the G8 to act.
With the G8 being held in [...]
KCL Stop AIDS Society is hosting an evening event with the Global Campaign for Microbicides for people to explore the debates around microbicides and find out about the latest developments.
The event is open to all and will be in the Harris Lecture Theatre of the Hodgkin building from 6-8pm on Thursday 10th May.
For more [...]
Stop AIDS Day of Action
Following the Stop AIDS Day of Action on 20th March we have now been informed that Hilary Benn will raise the issue of Abbott’s actions in Thailand at the G8 Development Ministers’ Meeting on 26th and 27th of this month. This is a major success, and demonstrates how powerful campaigning [...]
Hello everybody,
We organised an Africa beats night in Leeds this monday called ‘Wezewazay’. We organised it with the Afro-carribean society. We had some crazy drummers and then a set from a quality DJ. We managed to raise over £400! The sheffield stop aids jokers made it up, the results of the Leeds - Sheffield dance [...]
Here are the latest plans for the mass action card hand-in:
We will have a whole day of action on Tue 20 March.
The overall aim is to get Benn’s head straight on AIDS before the G8 Development Minister’s meeting and to win the support of more MPs to push the UK government to take action!
The date [...]
The Novartis Court case scheduled for January 29th was postponed. The results of the hearing will now be announced on Thursday 15th February. Take action now to tell Novartis to drop the case!
Novartis was one of the 39 companies that took the South African government to court five years ago, in an effort to overturn [...]
Speak or write to your MP and ask them to write to the DTI and DFID to find out their position on the Thai government’s issuing of the compulsory license for Kaletra.
In theory DFID support countries in making full use of the TRIPS flexibilities. Are they prepared to publicly state their support [...]
G8 Finance Ministers meet in Essen, Germany on February 9th-12th.
As AIDS Campaigners we worked really hard in the lead up to the 2005 G8 Summit in Gleneagles to secure the commitment to Universal Access to Treatment by 2010. 18 months on, despite committing themselves to this historic target, the G8 leaders have not produced [...]
Pharmaceutical company Novartis is taking the Indian government to court ovver it’s patent law. If Novartis is successful in its challenge against the Indian government and its patent law, more medicines are likely to be patented in India, making it very difficult for generic producers to make affordable versions of them. This could affect millions of people around the world who depend on medicines produced in India.
