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    GTAC & HEALTH GAP COALITION PRESS RELEASES
    Issue: Drug Donation Programs

    • 21 FEBRUARY 2001 (Nairobi) Kenya Coalition of NGOs denounced the lack of transparency in price negotiations between the big pharmaceutical companies, UNAIDS and the Kenyan government and called for the lowering of prices as promised. Read press release

    • 12 DECEMBER 2000 (Rio) Health Gap Coalition position paper "Questioning the UNAIDS/Pharmaceutical Industry Initiative: Seven months and counting. . ." is presented at the UNAIDS PCB meeting in Rio. UNAIDS Campaign | Position Paper: Read online | Download as PDF file |

    • 29 NOVEMBER 2000 (New York) Health GAP Coalition releases World AIDS Day Report Card: Has Access to Life-Saving AIDS Medicines improved in poor countries? Read online or download the PDF file.

    • 7 NOVEMBER 2000 (Nairobi) The Kenya Coalition on Access to Essential Medicines urges the Kenyan government to carefully examine the extent of price reductions proposed as part of the by UNAIDS/5 ARV AIDS drugs initiaitive. The Coalition warns o the impact on more long-term rights and means of access to life-saving medicines. Read Press Release.

    • 07 SEPTEMBER 2000 (New York City) ACT UP New York Press Release: At Pfizer's world headquarters in Manhattan, activists demand life-saving drugs for poor countries. ACT UP protests United Nations "bluewashing" Pfizer's public image despite killer price-gouging. ACT UP Press release
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 20 JUNE 2000 Treatment Action Campaign Letter to William C. Steere, CEO of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.
    • 20 JUNE 2000 (Geneva) Médecins Sans Frontières PRESS RELEASE : PFIZER LIMITS SCOPE OF DONATION OF HIV DRUG IN SOUTH AFRICA. MSF Reiterates Demand that Pfizer Unconditionally Reduce Price or Issue Voluntary License for Fluconazole. Read Online
    • 19 JUNE 2000 (Pietermaritzburg) Treatment Action Campaign PRESS RELEASE : TAC Announces Steps to Protest Limitations in Pfizer's Donation Offer By refusing to negotiate, Pfizer is condemning countless people to suffering and possible death because they cannot afford the unreasonable price that the company is putting on the drug. Pfizer's "gift" appears to have been a fraud to protect their profits. Read Online | Download Word Document
    • 16 JUNE 2000 (Nairobi) Médecins Sans Frontières PRESS RELEASE : LONG-TERM STRATEGY NEEDED TO TREAT AIDS IN POOR COUNTRIES. New Study Shows East Africans Pay More Than Europeans For Life-Saving Drugs Read Online
    • 20 MAY 2000 (Geneva) ACT UP Statement: Limited Victory Emerges from World Health Assembly. Delegations from Zimbabwe, Swaziland and other developing nations to the 53rd World Health Assembly withstood an intense pressure campaign from wealthy nations over proposals that would lead to improved, sustainable access to generic versions of AIDS medicines.
    • 17 MAY 2000 (Geneva) On the day that the 53rd World Health Assembly (WHA) discusses HIV/AIDS; confronting the epidemic (resolution EB105.R17), public health advocates call for the WHA to provide global pricing information on quality medicines available to treat people living with HIV/AIDS and other opportunistic infections. ACT UP Press Release: The U.S. delegation is up to all its old tricks-- mobilizing opposition in the face of even the slightest positive movement by member states of the World Health Organization..
      Joint statement: Health Action International, Médecins Sans Frontières, ACT UP demand transparency on global medicine pricing information.
    • 11 MAY 2000: AIDS activists campaigning for affordable access to life extending AIDS treatments met announcement of a "joint agreement" between UNAIDS and major AIDS drug manufactures with deep skepticism.Read ACT UP Philadelphia press release
    • 10 MAY 2000 ACT UP PARIS PRESS RELEASE : Act Up Paris activists jammed Pfizer's world Viagra plant in Touraine, France, into a standstill. Activists denounced Pfizer's pricing policy which is directly responsible for the death of thousands of People With AIDS living in developing countries. Read Online | Download Word Document
    • 04 MAY 2000 PFIZER Announces Diflucan Donation Program. Activists and organizations call for a long-term strategy. Treatment Action Campaign | ACT UP | Médecins Sans Frontières
    • 29 NOVEMBER 1999 (Washington DC) ACT UP Philadelphia PRESS RELEASE : Global Day of Action Targets US Government, Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) for Blocking Life-saving Medications to Poor Nations
    • 18 NOVEMBER 1999 ACT UP PARIS PRESS RELEASE : Activist Response to Bristol-Myers Squibb's " Secure The Profit" Program.
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