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U.S. ACTION ALERT: Call Senators to demand $2 BILLION FOR THE GLOBAL AIDS FUND. Details | Download Flyer (pdf)

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Global Treatment Action Campaign (GTAC) is a network for communication and organizing advocacy efforts for access to essential medications for AIDS and other diseases. more About GTAC

  
   

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  • August 22, 2002 (Cape Town) Over 70 African AIDS activists from 21 countries met to inaugurate the Pan-African HIV/AIDS Treatment Access Movement (PHATAM). PHATAM is dedicated to mobilising communities, political leaders, and all sectors of society to ensure access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, as a fundamental part of comprehensive care for all people with HIV/AIDS in Africa. Press Statement | PHATAM Plan of Action: Read Online | Download PDF | Download Word doc

FTAA and ACCESS TO MEDICINES IN LATIN AMERICA, CARIBBEAN

    The Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (FTAA) Threatens Access to Medicines in Latin America and the Caribbean

    The Bush Administration is negotiating new trade agreements that will block medicines access in countries hard hit by the AIDS crisis.

    • November 6, 2002 (DC) Essential Action releases analysis of Quito Ministerial FTAA provisions on intellectual property and implications for access to medicines. Read online | Background paper on FTAA by Essential Action, April 2002: Download PDF

    • October 3, 2002 (DC) Health GAP, MSF, Essential Action, and National Council of Churches/Church World Service convened a strategy session on access to medicines, intellectual property rights, and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Download the meeting report: Word doc | PDF file
    • October 30, 2002 (Manhattan) MSF on Quito Ministerial Meeting Press Statement

COCA-COLA REFUSES TREATMENT FOR WORKERS

Demand AIDS Treatment for Workers Living with HIV/AIDS

AIDS activists launched a campaign against Coca-Cola for refusing HIV/AIDS treatment for workers and their dependents in Africa. Coke's policy excludes all but the smallest fraction of African employees with access to treatment.

About the Treat Your Workers Campaign:
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BARCELONA

  • JULY 11, 2002 (Barcelona) Speech by Zackie Achmat of Treatment Action Campaign (South Africa) at the 14th International AIDS Conference in Barcelona. Read speech online
  • July 10, 2002 (Barcelona) AIDS activists protest Coke's deadly neglect of workers with AIDS in developing countries. Groups call for "Global Day of Action"—coordinated protests in the US, EU, Africa and southeast Asia. Press Statement
  • JULY 8, 2002 (Barcelona) Health GAP and ACT UP press for a plan to back up WHO's most recent analysis of their Accelerating Access Initiative and its announcement of support for scaling up treatment access to get HIV treatment to 3 million people in the developing world by 2005. Press Statement
  • JULY 7, 2002 (Barcelona) MSF and Health GAP accused wealthy nations of willful neglect that is costing millions of lives. Before a joint satellite meeting called "Time to Treat," activists focused attention on the failure of most governments to deliver on promises of lower cost antiretroviral treatment, particularly the world's wealthiest nations who have failed to fund the fight against AIDS. This represents an enormous political failure on the part of developing and rich country governments. Press Statement
  • JULY 2, 2002 (Barcelona) The Agua Buena Human Rights Association asks what will "Barcelona 2002" do for 150,000 people in Latin American and the Caribbean who need antiretrovirals now. Press Statement
  • JULY 1, 2002 (Barcelona) Health GAP paper in response to assertion that anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for people in poor countries is not cost-effective. "Cost Effectivness will Cost Lives
  • JUNE 29, 2002 (Barcelona) ACT UP Paris to G8: "Where is the ten billion dollars?" A year after the Group of Eight Industrialized Countries announced the "historic" creation of a Global Fund to fight AIDS, the contribution of the richest countries does not reach one tenth of the goal set forth by Annan. Press Statement

GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TB, AND MALARIA

  • JUNE 27, 2002 (Geneva) AIDS activists monitoring the development of the second Guidelines for Proposals document for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria submit revisions to the Fund's Board of Directors. Activists claim the current draft fails to address glaring errors in the first call for proposals. Lack of clarity in the original Guidelines for Proposals played a part in assuring that only a handful of applications would request and be granted money for HIV treatment programs. Open Letter to the Global Fund Secretariat
  • JUNE 25, 2002 (Washington, DC) On the eve of the G8 Summit in Canada, the Global AIDS Alliance today issued a briefing which states that even though G8 leaders plan to meet with African leaders, the leaders the wealthiest countries are effectively "turning their backs" on the AIDS crisis in impoverished countries. Press Statement | Report Online
  • JUNE 19, 2002 (Washington, DC) AIDS activists protest Bush at record-breaking Republican fundraiser. Activists denounced the global AIDS plan President Bush which announced this morning in a White House Rose Garden ceremony. They chanted that the plan was a hoax, as no new money was being proposed for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Press Statement
  • JUNE 17, 2002 (Washington, DC) AIDS activists hold rally against President Bush recycling damaged goods in lead up to G8 meeting: NO NEW MONEY, NO DRUGS FOR FAMILIES WITH AIDS. Activists denounce Bush sabotaging a bipartisan effort that would have made a substantial new U.S. contribution in 2002 to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Press Advisory

3-6 MILLION ON ANTIRETROVIRALS BY 2005

  • JULY 8, 2002 (Barcelona) Health GAP and ACT UP press for a plan to back up WHO's most recent analysis of their Accelerating Access Initiative and its announcement of support for scaling up treatment access to get HIV treatment to 3 million people in the developing world by 2005. Press Statement
  • JUNE 26, 2002 (Washington, DC) MSF letter sent to Bush in advance of the G8 Summit addresses critical health issues: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria pandemics, other less visible neglected diseases, and in particular the crisis in access to effective and affordable essential medicines for the treatment of these major killers in developing countries. Letter to Bush


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