E-drug: Important Press Alert (28 Jan, 2002)
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Invitation to Press Briefing in South Africa
[Although e-druggers outside South Africa cannot attend this meeting,
it is of interest that it is happening so others in South Africa can
hear about the Khayelitsha example.
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Tuesday, 29 January 2002 at noon
AIDS Consortium
4th floor, Auckland House
185 Smit Street
Braamfontein, Johannesburg
The groups will make an important announcement about the use of
generic antiretroviral drugs in South Africa
Members of the Treatment Action Campaign and Medecins Sans Frontieres
will explain how this action cuts in half the cost of AIDS drugs used
in a pilot programme run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
MSF will report on the use of antiretroviral therapy in Khayelitsha, a
township of Cape Town, and on the feasibility of the use these drugs
in resource-poor settings
The groups will call on the South African government and
pharmaceutical companies to take all steps necessary to ensure
availability of treatment
Speakers:
Dr. Eric Goemaere, Head of Mission, MSF-South Africa
Zackie Achmat, Chairperson, TAC
Matthew Damane, person living with HIV/AIDS on MSF antiretroviral programme
Dan Mullins, Regional HIV/AIDS Coordinator, Oxfam
For more information, please contact:
Toby Kasper, MSF 082 332 9713
Mark Heywood, TAC 083 634 8806
Dan Mullins, Oxfam 012 362 2118
Colwyn Poole
MSF Resource Centre
MSF South Africa
Tel 27 21 364 54 90
Fax 27 21 361 70 51=20
"Colwyn Poole" <colwynp@mweb.co.za>
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