Access to Life-Saving DrugsAccess to Life-Saving Drugs

Universities Allied for Essential MedicinesUniversities Allied for Essential Medicines

UAEMUAEM

NewbieNewbie

Access GapAccess Gap

Research GapResearch Gap

Ten million will die in 2007Ten million will die in 2007Why? Why?

PricePrice

Stavudine SuccessStavudine Success

New York TimesNew York Times

*Dr. William Prusoff, the Principal Investigator for D4T as quoted in the op-ed, “The Scientist’s Story” he published in the NYT on March 19, 2001.

““I once helped I once helped create a drug that create a drug that

could enable could enable millions of people millions of people to lead better and to lead better and

longer lives.” longer lives.”

““[D]4T should [D]4T should be either be either

cheap or free incheap or free insub-Saharan sub-Saharan

Africa.Africa.

$1600

$5596%

IPIPTR S

““Second-line” TherapiesSecond-line” Therapies

40 Million

1.3 million

Treatment Scale-up

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niversitiesniversities

A Simple ProposalA Simple Proposal

Universities should adopt humanitarian Universities should adopt humanitarian licensing terms to ensure that licensing terms to ensure that

every every drug developed in campus laboratories drug developed in campus laboratories be made available in poor countries be made available in poor countries

at the lowest possible cost.at the lowest possible cost.

A Promising SolutionA Promising Solution

This is what it This is what it means means to be a to be a great research university.great research university.

Less than 1%Less than 1%

Fast-Growing MomentumFast-Growing Momentum

World Health OrganizationWorld Health Organization

““Public research institutions and Public research institutions and universities universities in in developed countries should developed countries should seriously considerseriously consider

initiatives designed to ensure that access to initiatives designed to ensure that access to R&D outputs relevant to the health concerns of R&D outputs relevant to the health concerns of developing countries and to products derived developing countries and to products derived therefrom, are facilitated through therefrom, are facilitated through appropriate appropriate

licensing policies and practiceslicensing policies and practices.”.”

The Public Research in the Public Interest ActThe Public Research in the Public Interest Act

S.4040S.4040

A one-stroke solution to the collective action problem.A one-stroke solution to the collective action problem.

New Chair of the Judiciary CommitteeNew Chair of the Judiciary Committee

Philadelphia Consensus StatementPhiladelphia Consensus Statement

Paul Farmer Paul Farmer Jeffrey SachsJeffrey SachsStephen LewisStephen LewisVictoria Hale (One World Health)Victoria Hale (One World Health)4 Nobel Laureates in Science or Medicine4 Nobel Laureates in Science or MedicineFormer Deans of the Schools of Public Health at Yale Former Deans of the Schools of Public Health at Yale and at Harvardand at Harvard2 former editors of the New England Journal of Medicine2 former editors of the New England Journal of MedicineAssistant Secretary of Health under Clinton and JohnsonAssistant Secretary of Health under Clinton and JohnsonPatient groups from Thailand, India, and South AfricaPatient groups from Thailand, India, and South AfricaThe list just goes on…The list just goes on…

PressPress

Stanford White PaperStanford White Paper

California Institute of TechnologyCornell UniversityHarvard UniversityMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyStanford UniversityUniversity of CaliforniaUniversity of Illinois, ChicagoUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of WashingtonWisconsin Alumni Research FoundationYale UniversityAssociation of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

Laudable LanguageLaudable LanguageActionActionNational Day ofNational Day of

April 18, 2007April 18, 2007

National Day of ActionNational Day of Action

Students at Yale are hosting Thai HIV/AIDS activist Jon Ungphakorn, who, Students at Yale are hosting Thai HIV/AIDS activist Jon Ungphakorn, who, before his presentation, will light a haunting display of 2700 glowing pill bottles before his presentation, will light a haunting display of 2700 glowing pill bottles to commemorate the 27,000 people that will die on the National Day of Action to commemorate the 27,000 people that will die on the National Day of Action alone due to lack of access to existing medicines. alone due to lack of access to existing medicines.

Harvard students will host a speech by former World Health Organization HIV Harvard students will host a speech by former World Health Organization HIV Director, Dr. Jim Yong Kim. Director, Dr. Jim Yong Kim.

Students at UPenn will display a giant copy of the Philadelphia Consensus Students at UPenn will display a giant copy of the Philadelphia Consensus Statement in a prominent public place for the student body to sign in bright Statement in a prominent public place for the student body to sign in bright colors and host a teach-in to educate their fast-growing student base. colors and host a teach-in to educate their fast-growing student base.

UC Berkeley will hold a conference among leading research scientists eager to UC Berkeley will hold a conference among leading research scientists eager to see their discoveries benefit the worlds poor against the backdrop of three see their discoveries benefit the worlds poor against the backdrop of three giant stick figures, two white and one red that represent the one-third of the giant stick figures, two white and one red that represent the one-third of the world that lack access to existing medicines.world that lack access to existing medicines.

YouYou

Make a Difference TodayMake a Difference Today

Sign the Philadelphia Consensus Sign the Philadelphia Consensus StatementStatement

National Day of ActionNational Day of Action

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