E-DRUG: MSF Satellites @ Toronto AIDS Conference
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SUNDAY, August 13
12:30 - 14:30 MTCC, Room SBR 8
Satellite Meeting
The Challenges of Providing Long-Term Treatment in Resource-Limited
Settings
Moderator: Nathan Ford, MSF Thailand Introduction: Dr. Karim
Laouabdia, Director, MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines
Responding to the Need for Second-Line Treatment: When and Why?
- Dr. Alexandra Calmy, MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines
- Dr. Bill Rodriguez, Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative
- Professor Scott Hammer, Columbia University
- Dr. Delphine Sauvageot, Epicentre
Challenges in Securing Sustainable Access to Newer ARVs
- Lawan Sarovat, MSF Thailand
- Ibrahim Umoru, MSF Nigeria
- Dr. Shaheed Mathee, Principal Medical Officer, Khayelitsha, South Africa
- Anand Grover, Indian Lawyers Collective
What Can the International Community do to Ensure Equitable Access to New
Drugs and New Tools?
- Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
While some barriers to starting treatment for people living in developing
countries can be addressed through generic competition, regimen
simplification, decentralization, and increased community involvement, new
clinical and political challenges emerged. Speakers will discuss the
increasing need for patients to switch to alternative treatment due to
toxicities or treatment failure; the prohibitive cost of second-line
drugs; the urgency for needs-based R&D for affordable and field-adapted
new tools; and will explore strategies to overcome barriers to long-term
treatment.
TUESDAY Aug 15
Satellite Session 18:00- 20:00 MTCC, Room SR 9
Will it Deliver? WTO Rules and Canada's Law on Compulsory Licensing:
The Continuing Challenge of Scaling-up Global Treatment Access
- Brigitte Zirger, Director, Health Canada
- Prof. David H. Mwakyusa, Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Tanzania
- Dr. Bruce Clark, Vice-President Medical and Regulatory Affairs, Apotex Inc.
- Dr. Anil Soni, Director of Pharmaceutical Services, Clinton Foundation
- Rachel Kiddell-Monroe, Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF Canada
- Richard Elliott, Deputy Director, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Speakers will examine experiences with the Canadian law and the 2003 WTO
August 30th Decision, and consider whether such mechanisms will or can
improve access to ARVs and other medicines urgently needed in developing
countries. Co-hosted by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network.
Carol Devine
Coordinator for MSF Participation in the XVI International AIDS Conference
Medecins Sans Frontieres
416 875 6103
Carol DEVINE <Carol.DEVINE@toronto.msf.org>