For 11 years, Act Up-Paris has been demanding targeted, continuous mass media campaigns that would speak openly both about practices creating risk of AIDS and means of self-protection. It was only in the summer of 1999, nearly twenty years after the beginning of the epidemic that one could finally find a homosexual speaking on television, at midnight, about AIDS and sexuality as part of a prevention campaign.
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Prevention : targeted and continuous mass media campaigns
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WTO and access to generics The Sydney swindle
19 novembre 2002In spite of the commitments of Doha to find a solution to the issue of exportation of generics drugs from producing countries towards those which are unable to produce them, the developed countries are trying to force their way against the sick people of the South.
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What is at stake in access to anti-HIV/AIDS generic medicines ?
19 juillet 2002Since multitherapies were launched, international donors have been claiming that the cost of such medicines is too high for them to pay for the medical care of people living with HIV/AIDS in poor countries.
The cost of antiretroviral medicines is a difficult problem, but so is the very high cost of some treatments for opportunistic illnesses(nizorat, fluconazol, acyclovir etc), or of diagnostic tests and monitoring tools.
For two years, however, generic copies of particularly expensive (...) -
Coca-Cola is Making Big Profits Thanks to African Workers
14 octobre 2002– Coca-Cola is the most important private sector employer in Africa : it employs 100 000 people to distribute Coca-Cola products in all African countries, except two.
– In 2001 Coca-Cola’s turnover in Africa reached $621 million and represented the highest growth rate of the company’s sales in the world. The same year AIDS killed more than 2.3 million people on the African continent.
– Coca-Cola’s profit margin in Africa is predicted to grow by 12% in the coming 4 years, well beyond (...) -
HIV+ people ! Boehringer Ingelheim is working for you !
27 octobre 2003At the 9th annual AIDS conference organized by the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) on the 25th - 29th of October 2003 in Varsovie, two AIDS activist groups, the TRT 5 and the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG) opted to widely distribute the informational poster HIV-Positive People Boehringer Ingelheim is working for you ! in order to expose the corrupt policies of pharmaceutical laboratories.
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Problems with DART trial
7 décembre 2006Please click on the links below to download the DART protocol of August
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social rights
Since 1996 and the arrival of protease inhibitors, French public authorities have called into question the already inadequate rights of persons with AIDS.
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AIDS : generic drugs now !
27 janvier 2003Generic drugs are essential for medicines to be affordable drugs in developing countries, where people cannot pay the prohibitive prices imposed on the international market by the giant pharmaceutical corporations.
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WTO and access to generics : Lamy must change sides
12 novembre 2002in spite of numerous press statements supposedly in favour of the access to generics, in actual fact Pascal Lamy ignores the spirit of the Doha Declaration
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Barcelona
6 juillet 2002Barcelona cannot be one more conference during which we hear people trot out slogans such as « close the gap », « end the silence on AIDS », « the expertise and commitment to act » without anything more crucial coming out of it.