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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.

• 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.

• Abbott drops lawsuit, maintains deadly blockade
  22 juillet 2007

  Today 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.

• Prevention : targeted and continuous mass media campaigns
  

  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.