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http://www.genericsnow.org/ Tuesday February 21, 2001 Aids : first international summit for generics The first Summit for access to HIV/Aids drugs, an initiative of Act Up-Paris and ReMeD, will take place in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) between 3 May and 7 May 2001. Today, a huge majority of the 36 million people living with HIV/AIDS cannot access multitherapies because of the current prices set by the pharmaceutical companies who own the patents on those drugs (up to almost 10,000 euros per patient per year). Only a few thousand now benefit from generic versions, or copies of those treatments. The current emergency is to make this access available to all in the southern countries. This summit on generics is an unprecedented initiative of committed pro-treatment access People With AIDS groups, working in more than thirty countries, most of them from Africa. It will enable participants to study all perspectives of production and importation of generic drugs, or good quality copies, in order that action be undertaken as soon as possible. It is actually essential that legal clauses included in the WTO agreements could be used by southern countries for PWAs and to defend public health stakes. After four days of strategic brainstorming, local actors will invite international financial backers and political representatives to take concrete measures for this initiative to open a way to an effective availability of generics in southern countries. On 26 February 2001, the organisers of the summit will meet the press in Paris, at the Bourse du Travail at 6, rue du Ch�teau d'eau, together with representatives of associations supporting the initiative. The international summit for access to HIV/Aids drugs is supported by : ANSS (PWA association, Burundi), Comit� Burkinab� pour les G�n�riques, Consumer Project on Technology, Health Action International, Health Gap Coalition, International Coalition of Women with HIV, M�decins Sans Fronti�res, Planet Africa, R�seau Africain des Personnes S�ropositives, R�seau Sant� Bouak�, Treatment Action Campain, Women Fighting Aids in Kenya Press/media contacts : Emmanuel M'BAI KOUE, Germinal PINALIE email : [email protected] # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]