Harassing governments, laboratories, United Nations agencies, collaborating with other associations of patients, the North/South Commission is present on all fronts in its demands that poor countries have access to treatments.
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Treatment for all Now !
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EU-Thailand Free Trade Agreement: Not at the expense of access to medicines
18 September 2013Following the official launch of the negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the EU and the Kingdom of Thailand in March 2013, Thai officials and EU negotiators are meeting this week (16-20 September) in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to conduct a second round of negotiation of a trade agreement that both parties want to achieve in as little as 18 months.
week, around 5 000 health, consumer, and farming activists from various Thai civil society networks are taking part in a (...) -
European Commission’s pressure on Thailand : Mandelson sacrifices patients
22 août 2007On July 18th 2007, the European Commisoner for Trade wrote a letter to the
governement of Thailand to criticize its access to medicines policy through
compulsory licenses. After being put to pressure by the US drug giant Abbott
Laboratories, Thailand now has to face the pressure of the European Union.The Trade Commissioner’s letter effects a sharp rewrite of actual
international law provisions on access to generic medicines, and expresses
threats against Thailand - all in the interest of the patent-based
pharmaceutical industry, and in complete disregard for the human
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G8 leaders and W.H.O. can solve the health workforce crisis
3 March 2008AIDS activist group ACT UP-Paris blamed the G8 leaders and the World Health Organization for the global crisis in health workers, on the first day of the Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala, Uganda. They called upon G8 leaders and the WHO to take aggressive action now to end the crisis, such as to keep their outstanding commitments on health aid and technical support to developing countries. Activists also stressed the importance of developing country leaders doing their part.
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Abbott drops lawsuit, maintains deadly blockade
22 juillet 2007Today July 22 2007 in Sydney, Australia, at the initiative of people with HIV/AIDS from Thailand and France, Abbott CEO Jean-Yves Pavée participated in a meeting meant to resolve the crisis in which the company has dug itself in Thailand. Yet, during the meeting, Abbott refused to lift the deadly blockade of its lifesaving HIV medication Aluvia which the company is currently exerting against Thai people with AIDS.
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Five years later, the WTO deal on access to medicines is a failure
7 novembre 2006On November 14, 2001, the World Trade Organization’s ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar, agreed on a deal for access to medicines : the « Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health ». According to this deal, developing countries would henceforward be allowed to bypass drug patent monopolies that stop the flow of cheap generic medicines from countries like India into regions like Africa.
Five years later, according to data published by the World Health Organization, 74% of AIDS medicines are still under monopoly and 77% of Africans still have no access to AIDS treatment.
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DiffErEnt !
15 août 2002Five years ago, when we saw our bodies were changing, we felt that the problem was hormonal. But how women perceived their bodies was the last thing doctors were concerned with at that time, and when we talked to them about these changes, they would say to us : « Go on a diet, you women, you love diets ! » Today, people talk about lipodystrophia.
Due to advances in research and the arrival of tritherapies, people who are HIV positive are now faced with « long-term » treatments. In this (...) -
WTO & Generics : WTO Chairman Sergio Marchi is changing the Doha Ministerial Declaration
13 décembre 2002As the United States and the European Union are stepping up bilateral pressure on the Trade Ministers of key developing countries, WTO Chairman Sergio Marchi from Canada, is actively extending in the WTO General Council these intimidation tactics.
By affirming that « the mandate conferred by Doha was to find solutions for the poorest of the poor in the most remote areas », Sergio Marchi is deliberately changing the Ministerial Declaration of the November 2001 Doha Conference, and playing (...) -
French-German summit : financial commitments to fight AIDS must be honored
22 janvier 2003In both Germany and France anti-AIDS activists together ask their governments to commit themselves to fighting the epidemic.
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Only one thing to say : the fight against AIDS is elsewhere.
UNAIDS P.C.B. meeting was held in Geneva on June 28 & 29, gathering different political decision-makers, U.N. agencies and international NGOs on two objectives : to take stock of the activities achieved during the year and to settle UNAIDS’s workplan for the following year. Act Up-Paris attended the meeting as an observer. We’ve wasted our time and our money.