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    South Africa's Medicines Act
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    PRESS CENTER
    GTAC & HEALTH GAP COALITION PRESS RELEASES
    Issue: News and events from the XIII Int'l AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa including TAC's March for Global Access.

    • 19 JULY 2000 (Durban) ACT UP PARIS PRESS STATEMENT : Dr Van Damme confirms Nonoxynol 9 is inefficient and toxic.
    • 12 JULY 2000 (Durban) ACT UP Press Release: Activists demand that the US use its considerable influence with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to pressure them to cancel the foreign debt of developing nations and end structural adjustment programs.
    • 09 JULY 2000 (Durban) TAC Announces Next Steps: MTCT; Compulsory license against Pfizer; Defiance Campaign against drug companies- importation of essential medicines; Launch of national Treatment Action Council.
    • 09 JULY 2000: (Durban) ACT UP Press Statement: UNAIDS Confesses that Generic Access is Key to Making AIDS Treatment Available. ACT UP Demands: Break the Patents, Treatment for All.
    • 09 JULY 2000 (Durban) Médecins Sans Frontières Press Statement. MSF calls for replication and expansion of successful efforts to reduce AIDS drugs prices.
    • 09 JULY 2000 (Durban) ACT UP Press Statement. Taking Hostage: Merck and Gates announce $100 million donation for access to treatment in Botswana.
    • 09 JULY 2000 (Durban) Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Health Gap deliver MEMORANDUM at end of the Global AIDS March Global Manifesto to Save 34 Million Lives: Measures Needed to Rapidly Expand Access to Essential Treatments for HIV/AIDS. Read the memo online | Download Memorandum
    • 08 JULY 2000: (Durban) ACT UP: Activist response to Boehringer Ingelheim's announcement of a five-year nevirapine donation program (brand name: Viramune) to developing countries for prevention of perinatal transmission of HIV-1 without a plan for providing for the care of the mother or child.
    • 07 July 2000: (Durban) Statement released by ACT UP Philadelphia: Activists Blow Away Smokescreens, Expose Real Issues at International AIDS Conference.
    • 05 JULY 2000 (Durban) Treatment Action Campaign & Health GAP PRESS RELEASE : GLOBAL MARCH FOR ACCESS TO HIV/AIDS TREATMENTS: WILL BREAK THE SILENCE ON PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY PROFITEERING AND GOVERNMENT INACTION. Read press release online | Download Word Document | Zulu version online
    • 29 MAY 2000 (Durban) Joint Statement: TAC and & the XIII International AIDS Conference: The Treatment Action Campaign march against pharmaceutical giants and governments - planned to coincide with the opening day of the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa in July, will be peaceful and legal. The march has been endorsed by trade unions and many local and international organisations.
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