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Sustainable development in health, through improving the availability, accessibility, quality, and proper usage of prescription medications.
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AIDS: First international summit for generics The first Summit for access to HIV/Aids drugs, an initiative of Act Up-Paris and ReMeD, took place in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) between 3 May and 7 May 2001Today, a huge majority of the 36 million people living with HIV/AIDS cannot access multi therapies because of the current prices set by the pharmaceutical companies who own the patents on those drugs (up to almost 10,000 € per patient per year). Only a few thousand now benefit from generic versions, or copies of those treatments. The current emergency is to make this access available to all in the southern countries. This summit on generics is an unprecedented initiative of committed pro-treatment access People With AIDS groups, working in more than thirty countries, most of them from Africa. It will enable participants to study all perspectives of production and importation of generic drugs, or good quality copies, in order that action be undertaken as soon as possible. It is actually essential that legal clauses included in the WTO agreements could be used by southern countries for PWAs and to defend public health stakes.After four days of strategic brainstorming, local actors will invite international financial backers and political representatives to take concrete measures for this initiative to open a way to an effective availability of generics in southern countries.On 26 February 2001, the organizers of the summit will meet the press in Paris, at the Bourse du Travail at 6, rue du Château d'eau, together with representatives of associations supporting the initiative.The international summit for access to HIV/Aids drugs is supported by : ANSS (PWA association, Burundi), Comité Burkinabè pour les Génériques, Consumer Project on Technology, Health Action International, Health Gap Coalition, International Coalition of Women with HIV, Médecins Sans Frontières, Planet Africa, Réseau Africain des Personnes Séropositives, Réseau Santé Bouaké, Treatment Action Campaign, Women Fighting Aids in Kenya. Press/media contacts : Emmanuel M'BAI KOUE, Germinal PINALIE+33(0)1 49 29 04 04 / +33(0)6 08 40 92 02 / germinal@samizdat.net
web: www.genericsnow.org The Declaration for a framework for action improving access to HIV/AIDS care in developing countries |
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