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At a rally in Bridgeport, Connecticut, HIV/AIDS activists from Yale and Harvard Universities, including key UAEM students, protested President Obama's unmet promise for increased HIV/AIDS funding. After chanting "Fund Global AIDS" from the crowd, Obama addressed the protesters directly. "You've been appearing at every rally we've been doing," he commented. UAEM student activists have been persistent in their efforts to hold the President accountable to his promise of increased funding. For further information on the events at the Bridgeport rally, click the link below.

Yesterday, UAEM joined with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, the Raging Grannies among others to rally in support of reforming the Canadian Access to Medicines Regime.  If properly reformed, it will be easier for generic companies in Canada to export low-cost medicines to poor countries that do not have their own production capacity.  Read more about it here: http://www.aidslaw.ca/EN/camr/index.htm.

AAAS, an international non-profit organization dedicated to advocating science around the world, invited members of the Human Rights Coalition to explore the right to access live-saving medicines.

UAEMers Sandeep Kishore and Rajesh Panjabi Profiled in Lives, a Scientific American Publication, alongside President Jimmy Carter and six others "tied together by clarity of purpose, by strength and determination, by humility and by an obvious joy in their interactions with others less fortunate than themselves."

The letter UAEM and several other NGOs wrote to George Washington University calling for the cessation of it's industry-sponsored intellectual property (IP) training in India was picked up India-based PharmaBiz on June 14, 2010.

UAEM's Sandeep Kishore and Karolina Maciag submitted a letter to Nature Reviews Microbiology,  published online on 7 June 2010, titled "Generic Drugs for Developing Nations" in response to a recent editorial.

The University of Edinburgh featured UAEM's work, including UAEM's UK national coordinator Mori Mansouri, in their annual review. The University has taken a leadership role as one of the first universities in the UK to adopt a humanitarian agenda for the licensing of its medical research.

Article on UN agencies discussing intellectual property (IP) and Access to Medinces (A2M) and a mention of Berkeley Declaration coming from meeting UAEM advisory board member Amy Kapczynski organized on enforcement agenda at Berkeley.

June 7, 2010

NGO’s Call For George Washington University to Cease Industry-Sponsored Intellectual Property Training in India