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- September 2, 2005 (Manhattan) Health GAP and Physicians for Human Rights press UN members not to concede to US proposals to gut the World Summit Document. Call for stregthening language and commitments towards health care systems support and health worker scale-up needed to meet the Millennium Development Goals.
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- September 6, 2005 (London) Final pledges of money to the replenishment of the Global Fund for HIV, TB and Malaria fall drastically short of what was needed. The $3.7 billion pledged by donors is enough to sustain current programs. However, no funding for new prevention, treatment or care programmes for 2006 and 2007 was forthcoming. The disappointing U.S. pledge today of $600 over 2006 and 2007 is far less than the U.S. commitment to funding one-third of the Global Fund's needs of $7.1 billion over the two years. Press Release
- September 19, 2005 "India's 2005 Patent Act: Death by Patent or Universal Access to Second- and Future-Generation AIDS Medications," by Brook Baker. Background Paper
- August 30, 2005 Experts and activists speak out against 10 month long condom shortage in Uganda and the role of the Bush administration in deriding the use and promotion of condoms to prevent HIV. CHANGE and Health GAP release fact sheets and timelines regarding the Uganda condom crisis and US policies supporting abstinence-only programs through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
- August 30, 2005 (Manhattan) A coalition of AIDS activists held a demonstration in midtown Manhattan outside of the Ugandan Permanent Mission to the United Nations today to bring attention to that nation's severe condom shortage which is putting people at dangerous risk of HIV infection. The crisis has developed over the past ten months as the government of Uganda has stopped its robust program of public sector condom distribution. These condoms previously accounted for 80% of condoms available in the country.
- August 11, 2005 Letter from Health GAP, CHANGE, TAC, GMHC, Advocates for Youth, and CHAMP, calling upon Peter Piot to mobilize mass-awareness of the Ugandan condom crisis and its implications, and to urgently mobilize resources as necessary to get quality-assured condoms available to the public as well as to rebuild national trust in the Engabu brand and/or quality assured condoms distributed by the government.
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- July 18, 2005 Imminent CAFTA Vote: Will Poor Nations Be Cut Off From Access To AIDS and Other Medicines? Conference with experts on issue of CAFTA choking the life out of access to treatment in Central America Media Advisory | Download transcript
- July 15, 2005 Health GAP letter to the Secretary
of State of Brazil regarding the country the need for an issuance of a compulsory license for production of generic lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra) as well as other medicines whose high prices are threatening the sustainability of the Brazilian National AIDS Program. Download pdf of letter
- July 14, 2005 Timeline of events and leading news accounts regarding Brazil's crisis with prices of second line ARV drugs. Download timeline (.doc)
- July 8, 2005 Health GAP and Physicians for Human Rights release financial targets and interventions needed to scale-up health care workforces in Africa to meet MDGs and the target of universal HIV/AIDS treatment by 2010. The groups are calling for a global investment of US $2 billion in 2006, rising to $7.7 billion in 2010 by all donors, and have calculated the U.S. share as being one-third of the sum needed, or $650 million for 2006, rising to $2.6 billion in 2010. US spending could focus on countries funded under the PresidentŐs Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The figures were calculated by a group that included Lincoln C. Chen, MD, MPH, the Director of the Harvard University Global Equity Initiative and co-chair for coordination of the Joint Learning Initiative (JLI).
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- July, 2005 Ahead of the G8 Summit, Health GAP and Physicians for Human Rights release release international letter calling for G8 commitments towards supporting builing up of healthcare workforce in Africa. Download letter to G8 (PDF)
- June 30, 2005 Ahead of the G8 Summit United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for efforts to build affordable and efficient health systems in the developing world, particularly in Africa, which will require 1 million new health workers to meet internationally agreed meet the Millennium Development Goals for the 21st century. Health GAP press statement
June 29, 2005 Will the G8 Learn the Lessons of 3 by 5, or Announce More Empty Promises?
Health GAP released the following reaction to WHO's 'Report on Progress on Global Access to Antiretroviral Therapy, an Update on 3 by 5' (the full report is available at www.who.int/3by5). Health GAP Press statement
- JUNE 24, 2005 Health GAP statement on Brazil's authorization of a compulsory license of Kaletra, putting the government one step toward's breaking the Abbot's patent monopoly.
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FIX THE FUND! TREAT THE PEOPLE!Transparency and Accountability of Global Fund Financing in Kenya,
Sharonann Lynch, Kibera, June 12 2005.
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- June 1, 2005 (Manhattan) UN Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS Becoming a Declaration of Betrayal; G7 Donors Must Act to Increase AIDS Funding and Treatment Access. At the opening of a high-level UN meeting on progress in implementation of the four-year-old "Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS," AIDS activists warned that countries are breaking their promises to scale up the response to global AIDS, and are not doing their part to meet the critical challenge laid out by the World Health Organization to ensure treatment access for 3 million people in developing countries by 2005.
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Health GAP press statement on the state of 3x5 and UNGASS
- May 13, 2005 (Manhattan and Washington, DC) AIDS activists from Health GAP, Student Global AIDS Campaign, ACT UP New York, and Global AIDS Alliance urge Brazil to issue compulsory licenses on expensive patented antiretrovirals. Protestors deliver "spine" and memorandum to Brazil Mission to the UN in New York and to Embassy in Washington, DC.
Press Release | Download press release | Civil society memorandum to the government of Brazil: Word | download Portugese
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Bilateral Financing for ARV Treatment Programs: Promises, Pitfalls, and the Need for Change,
Sharonann Lynch,
Realising the Right to Health, Mumbai, India, 19 March 2005.
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- April 20, 2005 (Geneva) Health GAP delivers letter to Board Members of the Global Fund the Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
and the Secretariat to Fix the Global Fund Now and address the ongoing crisis of delays in implementation of Global Fund financed HIV treatment programs. Download PDF
- March 8, 2005 (Manhattan) Health GAP responds to UNAIDS shrinking its projections of resource needs for global AIDS by 2007 under pressure from donor countries. Health GAP Press Release
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- What is the Health GAP (Global Access Project) Coalition. Health GAP Coalition, 02 February 02. Download PDF file
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- Scaling-up antiretroviral treatment and financing the fight against global AIDS: IPRs, access to medicines and public health. Briefing Paper for the World Health Assembly, May 19, 2003. Read online| Download Word doc
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- The Global AIDS Crisis: Human Rights, International Pharmaceutical Markets and Intellectual
. Alan Berkman, MD, Health GAP Coalition at the Property Symposium, 2002. PDF file
- Myths vs. Reality: In the Global Struggle for AIDS Treatment Access by Health GAP, 8 OCTOBER 01. Download PDF file
- The IMF, the World Bank and the HIV/AIDS Crisis by Rob Weissman of Essential Action, 5 SEPTEMBER 2001. Download: Word document | PDF File
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