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UAEM Urges Universities to Support UNITAID Patent Pool

August 5, 2008
Contact: Sam Houshower
Phone: 415.686.8520
Email: houshower [at] berkeley [dot] edu
For Immediate Release
UAEM Urges Universities to Support UNITAID Patent Pool
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) applauds the decision of the UNITAID Executive Board to move toward establishing a patent pool for medicines to provide patients in low and middle income countries with increased access to […]

IGWG Statement by Ethan Guillen of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines

May 3, 2008
Today Ethan Guillen, Executive Director of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (www.essentialmedicine.org), issued the following statement on the World Health Organization Intergovernmental Working Group in Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property:
“We were pleased to see the advancement in the negotiations of important issues like technology transfer that promotes innovation of and access to […]

University Officials Fight Innovative Measures to Increase Access to Medicine

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Sara Crager
sara[dot]crager[at]yale[dot]edu
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 […]

Edindurgh University Students’ Association votes to support the fight for global access to medicines

Contact: Sinead Cook
07800978843
s0453907@sms.ed.ac.uk
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 19, 2008
Edindurgh University Students’ Association votes to support the fight for global access to medicines
Today, February 19th, Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA) voted to support Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) in their fight to ensure Edinburgh University makes lifesaving medicines developed in their laboratories accessible to the developing world. […]