Global Access to Medicines Day
Global Access to Medicines Day, part of the Global Health Week of Action, is coming up on March 30, 2009! We’d once again like to invite you to participate in our unified spring action to raise awareness of the dire need for universities to implement global access licensing and this year’s focus on educating the scientists who actually make the discoveries. As usual, it’s hard to find a day that matches all academic schedules so please feel free to hold your event when it makes the most sense for your chapter.
Check out the YouTube video on how to tell university scientists about global access licensing!
Here’s all you have to do:
- Download the GAMD toolkit and the UCGH Week of Action Toolkit
- Plan your action
- Register your chapter’s action!
- Take action! (for example: reach out to university scientists, hold a teach-in, etc.)
- Tell us how it went
Be sure to check out the resources page and download the toolkit that has lots of great information and helpful event suggestions that you can use as ideas to kickstart your school’s action!
The Global Access to Medicines Day is part of the larger Global Health Week of Action coordinated by University Coalitions for Global Health (UCGH), of which UAEM and many other allied student organizations are members. The Week of Action features activities and events on issues around sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, health care workers, access to essential medicines, and human rights (for more info: http://www.ucgh.org/take-action/2009-global-health-week-of-action/).
And don’t forget to register your chapter’s action!
Looking forward to being in touch and hearing about the headway you make through your action this spring.
In solidarity,
UAEM Coordinating Committee
