The European Union’s top trade official Peter Mandelson has called on Thailand to revise its efforts to provide affordable medicines to people living with HIV and AIDS.
In a letter to the Thai Minister of Commerce, Mandelson expressed concern that Bangkok “may be taking a new approach to access to medicines” and that the approach being [...]

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The Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria (the Fund) was established in 2002 as an international funding mechanism combining the resources of some of the richest countries in the world to fight the spread of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria; [...]

The challenge made by Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis against a section of India’s 2005 Patents Act was dismissed by the High Court in Chennai, India on 6th August, 2007 marking a significant victory for organisations and campaigners against the further tightening of patent laws in developing countries. Novartis had argued that the Patents Act breaches [...]

From 6-8th June leaders of the world’s 8 richest countries met in Heiligendamm in northern
Germany to make important decisions on the urgent issues affecting the world. Two years on from the promises made at the 2005 G8 Summit, and with less than three years until the target date of 2010, the eyes of the world [...]

Earlier this month the European Parliament held a hearing on access to medicines and TRIPS. Currently the European Union is hoping to conclude free trade deals (know as Economic Partnership Agreements or EPA’s) which could force African,
Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries to abide by European Union intellectual property rules. The deals would require ACP countries [...]

For the past 5 months a fierce battle has been fought between the right of countries to protect public health and the right of companies to make a profit.
Our campaign for Universal Access to treatment has this year focused on making the flexibilities for public health within the TRIPS agreement work. These [...]

On 11th May Stop AIDS Societies Coordinator, Katy Athersuch and President of KCL Stop AIDS Society, Becky Khor traveled to Geneva to meet with Health Activists and Campaigners from around the world to discuss the urgent issues coming up at the World Health Assembly this month. Top on the list to discuss was the recent [...]

On 22nd May 2007 members of the Stop AIDS Campaign presented Tony Blair with 10,000 action cards and a specially made, ‘This is Your Life’ Book to remind him of all the commitments he’s made to fighting HIV and AIDS and all the work he still needs to do to ensure that these commitments are [...]

Former NBA Star Voices Support for Activist Demands for Access for Poor Countries
Earvin “Magic” Johnson, spokesperson for Abbott Laboratories, voiced support for activist demands that Abbott cease its efforts to block generic versions of its HIV drug Kaletra in Thailand and other countries, at a forum sponsored by Abbott at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, [...]

The new AIDS treatment access numbers released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 17th April are a grave warning about the state of AIDS treatment scale-up, warn the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition. In the last 12 months, treatment access grew by 700,000 to a total of two million people, but many millions more remain [...]