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President Bill Clinton Praises UAEM’s Work at Yale Law School

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 […]

Presidential Candidates Pledge Support for Fighting Neglected Diseases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Anjali Dalal
Monday, Sept 29, 2008
anjali [dot] dalal [at] yale [dot] edu
Presidential Candidates Pledge Support for Fighting Neglected Diseases
Barack Obama Builds Upon Support for Making Low-Cost Medicines Available in Developing Countries
Berkeley, CA – At the Clinton Global Initiative Thursday, United States presidential candidates Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama highlighted the importance […]

Rachel Kiddell-Monroe, chair of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, today calls on the World Trade Organization to urgently review its August 30th Decision

25 September 2008, Berkeley, California.
Rachel Kiddell-Monroe, chair of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, today calls on the World Trade Organization to urgently review its August 30th Decision and quickly provide a workable model to address the access to medicines crisis in developing countries.
On August 30, 2003, the World Trade Organization issued a Decision […]

UAEM Announces Stephen Lewis, Co-Director Of AIDS-Free World and Former Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa as Keynote for 2008 Conference

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 […]