We’re pushing for a patent pool to help deliver affordable, appropriate HIV treatment to the millions around the world who still can’t access the life-saving drugs they need. To mark World AIDS Day 2008 we decided to promote the Push for the Pool campaign we travelled to Hampstead Heath on one of the coldest days [...]
A patent pool is our best chance to revolutionise access to HIV treatment forever. It’s vital that as many people as possible sign our e-petition.
Over 33 million people are living with HIV but only one in three has access to the treatment they need to stay alive. This is often because the cost of treatment [...]
Attention All Societies:
Thursday 6th of November, Edinburgh stop AIDS is organising an all day conference/Mexico Hub on HIV/AIDS.
The HUB will cover 4 of the topics covered in Mexico, including:
0930-1100. Gender and its role in HIV transmission and treatment – speaker from Queen Margaret’s University TBC
1130-1300 Meeting the Prevention Needs of People, Living with HIV/AIDS. Dr [...]
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 [...]
The UK Consortium Care and Support working group will run an independent hub in London, on Friday 8th August, to link with the Mexico International AIDS Society Conference: “What do we really mean by ‘Care’ and ‘Support’? Progress towards a comprehensive definition”.
This hub is part of a number of other ‘mini-conferences’ which will take place [...]
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 [...]
Building on the success of last year’s event, the Stop AIDS Campaign Parliamentary Day of Action earlier this month has added serious strength to the voices of those fighting for greater attention to be paid by the UK Government to issues surrounding HIV and AIDS.
On March 11th, over 60 student campaigners descended on London [...]
Chatting with MPs
With World AIDS Day just around the corner there couldn’t be a better time to meet with your MP. You could invite them to the parliamentary event on Thurs 29th Nov or an event of your own, enjoy a good natter about the campaign demands and ask them to sign the new Early [...]
To keep Mr Brown and Mr Alexander’s from straying from action on AIDS send them the Stop AIDS e-action. Pass on this page as a link to friends, family, acquaintances, and pets (they might want to stop AIDS too), to keep the issue from slipping off the political agenda. A pat on the back to [...]
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 [...]
