Events

UAEM's Annual Happy Hour Fundraiser in Washington, D.C.
Free Pool and Shuffleboard! Free food! Drink Specials!

Help us make this a success: please pass this invitaition on to your friends, family and colleagues in the DC area!

Please join us on Thursday July 30th for a happy hour to benefit Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, www.essentialmedicine.org, a national student-led non-profit working to bring life-saving medicines to patients in low-income countries.

A fun evening at one of DC's best neighborhood bars is planned! * Details below. * And the cause is a worthy one: 10 million people die each year from diseases that have available treatments. Tragically, throughout much of the world, patients simply cannot access the necessary medicines -- often because the drugs needed are unaffordable. (Indeed, during the fifteen seconds it takes to read this paragraph, five people have died from preventable causes.) Sadly and ironically, those unaffordable medicines are often the product of publicly funded research carried out at universities.

Call Congress today to support Domestic and Global AIDS Funding. The calls are part of a coordinated effort of dozens of HIV/AIDS advocacy organizations calling on Congressional leaders to fulfill US commitments to global AIDS initiatives. From June 30-July 7, activists in cities across the country are targeting members of the US Senate Appropriations Committee, urging them to increase funding levels for global and domestic AIDS programs.

Call on Congressional leaders to fulfill US commitments to global AIDS initiatives.

Make your call today. Read how here and below.

Global Access to Medicines Day is coming up on March 30th, 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.

Dozens of medical, graduate, law, and undergraduate students gathered at UCLA this weekend to organize and plan for a formal presentation by University Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) to a system-wide panel in March.

UAEM, an international campaign of students, healthcare providers and patient advocates, lobbied UC Presidents Dynes and Yudof to enact a Global Access License for UC's medical innovations.

As the leader in academic research and technology transfer, the UC system can do much to increase access to essential medicines

Berkeley, CA - Nearly 1,000 students, faculty and staff from seven of the ten University of California campuses demonstrated their support of global access licensing of UC-developed medicines by signing letters to UC President Mark Yudof that were delivered to his office by UAEM students last week.

President Clinton was in New Haven for his 35th law school reunion, and spoke to a large hall of gathered alumni about America’s role in the world, including the importance of UAEM’s work on global health. President Clinton told the crowd: “I like [their work] because that is an example of how we turn good intentions into positive changes.” President Clinton’s comments represent just one of the many high profile endorsements UAEM has recently received--including nine Nobel Laureates and dozens of leaders in the fields of science, medicine, public health, law, and economics.

If you are a Yale alum who heard about UAEM through President Clinton’s speech, you can help make President Clinton’s vision a reality. Alumni are incredibly important to Yale University; please call on Yale to be a leader on access to medicines issues. Specifically...

Berkeley, CA, -- Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) is pleased to announce that Stephen Lewis, former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa and Co-Director of AIDS-Free World (www.aids-freeworld.org) will be the keynote speaker for this year's UAEM National Conference to be held in Berkeley, CA on October 17-19, 2008.



Lewis's longstanding commitment to humanitarian work and, in particular, his efforts in combating the AIDS epidemic, was recognized by TIME Magazine in 2005 when he was named among the World's 100 Most Influential

This year’s Fall Conference will be October 17-19 at University of California, Berkeley. You can register for the conference here.

Over the spring semester, UAEM's chapter at University of Florida worked closing with Americans for Informed Democracy (AID) in conceiving and carrying out a tremendous campaign that has truly pushed the school closer to adopting a licensing policy that would improve access to medicines in the developing world.

Mark your calendars. This year's Fall Conference will be at University of California, Berkeley from 17-19 October. We're looking forward to an amazing schedule of presentations and strategizing. We'll post more information here as more information and resources become available.