Good communication is essential for us to run an effective campaigning organisation, this includes you in your societies being provided with up to date campaign information, hearing and seeing what other groups and doing so that it motivates you and we can all learn from best practice, but also us at HQ hearing about the [...]

In December at the UNITAID board meeting the patent pool proposal was accepted!!! Right now UNITAID are recruiting board members to take the patent pool forward, this means sorting out its legal identity and beginning to enter in to formal discussions with Pharma over how a patent pool would work. Although it is necessary to [...]

We’re less than halfway to achieving universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
Watch Bill Nighy explain how the Robin Hood Tax can help and then join the campaign…

The Robin Hood Tax is a tiny tax on bankers that would give billions to tackle poverty and climate change, here and abroad. For more information [...]

If you have a googlemail account please go to
www.conservatives.com/Draft_Manifesto.aspx
And vote for the question
“Wouldn’t it be good to give relief to people and small businesses hurt by the financial crisis by applying a small financial transaction tax on the banks that caused the mess” Harriet Shrewsbury.
This is a key campaign issue for the Stop AIDS Campaign!

Steering Committee: what is it?
Since 2006 the Student Stop AIDS Campaign has had an active steering committee who come to London quarterly to discuss key issues and brainstorm how to take the campaign forward.
The steering committee is an integral part of the Student Stop AIDS Campaign, ensuring that there are student voices at the national [...]

In December the UNITAID board met to discuss the patent pool proposal and made a ground breaking decision to take the proposal forward.
So what exactly was agreed, and what is the way forward?
By the end of February UNITAID will have had another meeting where it will discuss and agree where the patent pool will be [...]

Hello!
My name is Lotti, and I have recently taken over from the lovely Diarmaid as the Advocacy and Campaigns Coordinator at SPW.
For the last 18 months I have been heavily involved with several different campaigning organisations in all manner of capacities. These have included developing volunteer networks and supporting local campaigning groups with Greenpeace, organising [...]

Late on Monday night UNITAID voted to create a patent pool for HIV medicines. This is a hugely important move which will help millions who need HIV treatment across the developing world.
This is a massive achievement for the Students Stop AIDS Campaign which has been ‘Pushing for the Pool’ for the last year and a [...]

At the beginning of this month the Student Stop Aids Steering Committee took the Patent Pool campaign to the head quarters of two influential pharmaceutical companies to ensure that they too were commemorating World Aids Day. In the eve of the UNITAID conference this was the perfect opportunity to highlight the appeal of the student [...]

With World AIDS Day done and dusted, here are some of things you did…
Leeds Stop AIDS had a very successful World AIDS day, raising over £730 throughout the day with a Balloon Pop Raffle, in which people paid £1 to pop a balloon and win a condom or a prize that had been kindly donated [...]