Global Treatment Access Campaign

	GTAC Home Campaigns >South Africa lawsuit: Campaign Page About the Call to Action Actions Calendar About the Lawsuit TAC Fact Sheet >GTAC New York Campaign Campaign Artwork GTAC Sign on Letter Glaxo SmithKline Pfizer UNAIDS World AIDS Day Debt Microbicides Global Call Global Treatment Action Campaign (GTAC) is a network for communication and organizing advocacy efforts for access to essential medications for AIDS and other diseases. The campaigns vary but the core issues remain the same: exorbitant drug prices, crippling debt, and insufficient public health strategies to treat those affected by the AIDS epidemic. more About GTAC IN THE NEWS McNeil Jr, DONALD G. "Indian Company Offers to Supply AIDS Drugs at Low Cost in Africa" New York Times Magazine, 7 FEBRUARY 20001. Rosenberg, Tina. "Look at Brazil: Patent laws are malleable. Patients are educable. Drug companies are vincible. The world's AIDS crisis is solvable." New York Times Magazine, 28 JANUARY 20001.
			GTAC New York NYC MARCH 5th: AIDS DRUGS FOR AFRICA MARCH & RALLY STOP MEDICAL APARTHEID— FROM BOTSWANA TO THE BRONX PROTEST AGAINST DRUG COMPANIES BLOCKING AFFORDABLE AIDS TREATMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA GLOBAL CALL TO ACTION The events below are in response to the call to action and solidarity from AIDS activists in South Africa against multinational pharmaceutical companies. The drug companies are suing the South African government in order to block affordable, generic AIDS drugs and importation of less expensive drugs from other nations. Groups around the world are responding to the call by organizing a Day of Action targeting drug company profiteering on March 5, 2001. On this day, the court action by more than 40 multinational drug companies against the South African government will be heard in the Pretoria High Court. OUTREACH MATERIALS: View Posters Online Outreach Flyer: Black and White (PDF) \| Color (PDF) BACKGROUND MATERIALS: Read TAC's Call to Action \| TAC's Fact Sheet on the Lawsuit \| GTAC Community Sign-on Letter to Plaintiffs Read ACT UP press release on Glaxo office take over 2/21/01 \| Download Glaxo Fact Sheet NYC SCHEDULE OF EVENTS TOWN MEETING MARCH 4th "AIDS IN AFRICA: WHAT NEW YORKERS CAN DO TO FIGHT FOR AFFORDABLE TREATMENT." Sunday, March 4, 6:30 pm at Unity Fellowship Church in Brooklyn, 230 Classon Avenue between Willoughby and Myrtle. Take the G Train to Classon Avenue. MARCH & RALLY MARCH 5th STOP DRUG COMPANY KILLER PRICE-GOUGING AND MURDEROUS PATENT POLICIES IN AFRICA. Meet Monday, March 5th at noon at 59th Street and 5th Avenue in midtown Manhattan. RALLY and then MARCH to GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol Myers Squibb offices. Take the N/R to 60th street ; or B/Q to 57th and 6th Ave. GTAC New York Contacts Global Treatment Access Campaign (GTAC) NEW YORK Phone: 212-674-9598 E-mail: GTACny@hotmail.com Current list Co-sponsors of GTAC New York: Health GAP Coalition, Global ACCTS, African Services Committee, NYC Responds to AIDS in Africa, Americans Mobilized Against the Spread of AIDS in Africa (AMASAA), GMHC, Treatment Action Group (TAG), International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), Latino Commission on AIDS, The Africa Fund, ACT UP New York, NYC Fair Trade Coalition, Urban Justice Center, Queers For Racial & Economic Justice, Anti-Violence Project, NYC AIDS Housing Network, Direct Access Alternative Information Resources (DAAIR), Gray Panthers, International Socialist Organization (ISO), New York Public Library Guild--Local 1930 of District Council 37 (AFSCME), Edgar Romney--Executive Vice President of UNITE! (AFL-CIO), New York Central Labor Council (AFL-CIO), William Henning--Vice President CWA Local 1180 (AFL-CIO), Bailey House, The American Committee on Africa (ACOA), American Jewish World Service, Audre Lorde Project (ALP), Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries (STAR). Back to Top