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  • G8 leaders and W.H.O. can solve the health workforce crisis
    3 March 2008

    AIDS 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.

  • WTO and access to generics : Lamy must change sides
    12 novembre 2002

    in 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

  • PaCS : bitter victory for HIV-positives

    On November 13, 1999, the French Parliament passed a civil solidarity pact PaCS (Pacte Civil de Solidarité), which provides a legal structure for unmarried heterosexual and homosexual couples.

  • WTO & Generics : WTO Chairman Sergio Marchi is changing the Doha Ministerial Declaration
    13 décembre 2002

    As 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 (…)

  • WTO and access to generics The Sydney swindle
    19 novembre 2002

    In 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.

  • What is at stake in access to anti-HIV/AIDS generic medicines ?
    19 juillet 2002

    Since 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 (…)

  • Abbott Blockade against Thailand : people with HIV/AIDS invite CEO to crisis resolution meeting
    13 juillet 2007

    Today July 13 2007, The Thai Network of People living with HIV/AIDS and Act
    Up-Paris have invited Abbott Laboratories CEO Miles White to a conciliation
    meeting with a representative of the Thai government, during the
    International AIDS Conference in Sydney, on July 23 2007. This meeting aims
    to offer the drug company an opportunity to get out of the crisis in which
    it has dug itself since announcing a blockade of lifesaving medicines
    against the Thais, followed by a lawsuit against people with HIV for
    organizing an internet protest.

  • 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 its (…)

  • To reduce risks is to legalize

    In April 2000, on the island of Jersey, the 11th international conference on the reduction of risks from drug use never stopped turning in circles around the obstacle of prohibition.

  • social and legal advice
    29 juillet 2002

    Fighting AIDS means fighting the discrimination and social problems faced by HIV-positive people, which prevent them from getting the right medical treatment. For more than three years now, Act Up-Paris has been offering social and legal advise to help PWA’s with the many legal difficulties they face.