Join students, faculty, and researchers at top research institutions in the U.S, Canada and the UK for the Universities Allied for Essential Medicine’s Week of Action: Demand that lifesaving drugs developed in your campus laboratories be made available in poor countries.
Order your T-shirts for the 08 Week of Action now!
Download UAEM materials for contacting your board here:
Cover letter, Packet to Boards, Faux article
And don’t forget to register your chapter, and check out the University Coalitions for Global Health materials for the 2008 Global Health Week of Action: The Many Sides of The Right to Health. Packet is here and video below.
Millions are Dying
The World Health Organization estimates that ten million people die every year who could be saved by existing drugs but are simply too poor to afford them.
Universities Can Help Change This
Because many of these life-saving drugs are developed in campus laboratories, universities wield substantial leverage when they license their drugs to pharmaceutical companies.
Our proposal is simple: When a university licenses a promising new drug candidate to a pharmaceutical company, it require that the company allow the drug to be made available in poor countries at the lowest possible cost. This would have virtually no financial impact on the company or university, but could ultimately save millions of lives.
A Call to Action
Events and Actions are planned throughout the U.S., Canada and UK.
Register your school’s participation at http://www.essentialmedicine.org/nda!