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- August 12, 2002 (Manhattan) The AIDS activist groups ACT UP and Health GAP, who have been leading campaigns demanding multinational corporations like Coca Cola for AIDS treatment for African employees, offered provisional support for today's announcement from De Beers Consolidated Mines, and Anglo-American's recent announcement, committing the companies to treating its HIV positive workers. Activists announce a Global Day of Protest against corporations denying AIDS drugs. Press Statement
- 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
- 30 JUNE 2002 (New York) AIDS Activists Target Coca-Cola at New York Gay Pride Parade to demand Coke pay for AIDS drugs for workers in poor countries. ACT UP New York Press Release
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