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• UNODC : War against drugs is war againt drug users
  22 juillet 2010

  UNODC blocks actions of prevention and harm reduction. Act Up-Paris and other activists protested about the consequences of its criminal deadly policy : stigmatizations, emprisonment, repression. Leading to a lack of prevention and treatment, new contaminations and deathes. UNODC must stop the war on drugs.

• The French National Medicines Agency blocks vital data on hepatitis.
  26 April 2013

  The French National Medicines Agency blocks vital data on hepatitis.
  While an international conference on the Study of the Liver [1] in which important data is provided on clinical trials to evaluate new drugs against hepatitis is held in Amsterdam, we condemn the withholding of information the French National Medicines Agency (ANSM) oppose to the patient groups.
  People in treatment failure risk of dying quickly should benefit from early access to developing drugs. There is a temporary (...)

• The lives of Millions of Sick People Are in Pascal Lamy’s Hands
  24 novembre 2002

  At the Ministerial conference in Doha, the Member States of the World Trade Organization committed themselves to solving the problem of the export of generics from producing to non-producing countries by the end of 2002. At the last meeting of the TRIPS Council this year, Nov. 25-27, Pascal Lamy’s position will be decisive.

• WHO endangering people with AIDS
  29 mai 2002

  May 2002 has marked the second anniversary of the "Accelerating Access" initiative, launched by UNAIDS in a partnership with several UN agencies

• Instead of fighting against AIDS, Europe fights against foreigners.
  20 juin 2002

  Tomorrow, European-Union is supposed to elaborate a global agreement about immigration and asylum issues. Act Up-Paris denounces the priority E.U. attaches to the only objectives of "security" and "immigration control", whereas it is supposed to guarantee foreigners, among others those who are affected by serious pathologies, the elementary rights.

• COPY = RIGHT : Let poor countries access generic ARVs
  11 juillet 2002

  Drug companies are using several ways to block generic access in developing countries

• Five years later, the WTO deal on access to medicines is a failure
  7 novembre 2006

  On 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.

• French-German summit : financial commitments to fight AIDS must be honored
  22 janvier 2003

  In both Germany and France anti-AIDS activists together ask their governments to commit themselves to fighting the epidemic.

• DiffErEnt !
  15 août 2002

  Five 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 (...)

• Solidays manifesto
  8 juillet 2002

  This text was presented july 3rd at the press conference after the meeting of Solidarité Sida, Solidays, and 35 associations have already signed it.
  We, community groups, people living with HIV/AIDS, frontline workers note : Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, 25 million people have died - Throughout the years, community workers, people living with HIV/AIDS, and health care workers have mobilized day after day to respond to the impact of this epidemic and protect the lives of (...)