E-drug: Worlds AIDS Day: Pledges on medicines
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1 December 2000
Dear E-drug readers,
I pass on to you Pascal Lamy's World AIDS Day statement.
MSF will be present at the Okinawa meeting next week. We will make
sure to report on e-drug what happened.
Later today we will post briefing for the G8 conference on our web-site
www.accessmed-msf.org
The title is:
Emergency Prescriptions: Strategies for Increasing Access to
Medicines for Infectious Diseases
Okinawa International Conference on Infectious Diseases: December 7-8, 2000
Ellen 't Hoen
MSF Access to Essential Medicines Campaign
e-mail: ellen.t.hoen@paris.msf.org
tel: + 33 1 40212836
WORLD AIDS DAY: LAMY PLEDGES ACTION ON MEDICINES
European Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy marked World AIDS day (1 Dec)
by confirming his commitment to action to make safe, affordable
medication available to all who need it. 'We are committed to doing
whatever is necessary to shape the right conditions so that the
poorest of the poor have access to the medicines they deserve.
Increasing access to affordable key pharmaceuticals is a MUST in the
fight against the three main communicable diseases, that is, malaria,
tuberculosis, and of course HIV/AIDS which is in the spotlight today,'
he said.
Mr Lamy was joined by Commissioners Poul Nielson (Development and
Humanitarian Aid) and Philippe Busquin (Research) in expressing
support for efforts to combat HIV/AIDS with all means at their
disposal. They said their pledge to give the issue top priority at
the Round Table on Communicable Diseases held in Brussels on 28
September with the World Health Organisation and UNAIDS could be
given a boost at the upcoming G8 conference in Okinawa, and at the
EU-US summit on 18 December.
For more information on DG TRADE Action for Access to Medicines and
World Aids Day, go to: http://europa.eu.int/comm/trade/csc/med.htm
and http://www.unaids.org
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