Global Access to Medicines Month - April 2010
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) has been campaigning at academic institutions around the world to make certain that medicines discovered on our campuses are made affordable and accessible to patients in low- and middle-income countries.
There have been critical shortcomings at a number of universities regarding their mission to promote public welfare. In order to hold them accountable, we are organizing a Global Access to Medicines Month of action in solidarity with UAEM chapters globally. We would like to invite your chapter to participate this April in a concerted action designed to encourage universities to:
- adopt global access licensing policies
- retract support of legislation that will prevent access to affordable biologic drugs
- retract opposition to policy recommendations that would improve innovation of and access to genetic diagnostics
The annual spring UAEM action is a fantastic and exciting rallying point for students across the globe to draw attention to the role of universities and access to medicines. We hope you can join us, please keep checking this website to learn more about the issues, how your chapter can take action, and to register your action.
Here’s 5 easy steps you can take to get involved in the Global Access to Medicines Month:
- Download the GAMM toolkit (coming soon)
- Plan your action
- Register your chapter’s action!
- Take action!
- Tell us how it went
Thank you for your hard work and dedication to UAEM's mission and vision. 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
