What We Do
CAFTA:
CAFTA is a trade plan that mirrors NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement), and it will have disastrous effects on Central American countries’ access to generic drugs, in addition to destabilizing the lifestyles of agricultural workers and other laborers within these countries. Read more about how CAFTA prohibits access to generic drugs under these new tightened provisions.
US
& Latin American AIDS Advocates Blast CAFTA's Anti-Generic Drug
Provisions
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/B060305Z.shtm
Will Poor People have Access to Medicines (Oxfam):
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/pdfs/cafta_ip_brief0404.pdf
Guatemala: Country example (MSF):
http://www.msf.org/countries/page.cfm?articleid
=0C4AAA4A-0F7E-4ABE-AE0238670EAFAC93
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What we have done in the past:
-Coordinated the New York City Student Global AIDS Walk 2002
-Placed 2nd in Oxfam's Povertyfighters Clickdrive spring 2003
-Coordinated and planned Columbia's first ever World AIDS Week,
extending World
AIDS Day into a week-long event
-link to last year's CUWAW calendar
-Hosted Student Initiative for AIDS and a slam poetry event to
raise money and
awareness about the HIV pandemic
-Coordinated with SIA a citywide student discount card program
to raise money for
AIDS efforts in Africa
-Protested Kerry, Bush and Edwards to campaign on AIDS (check
out: aidsvote.org)
-Held teach-ins on debt relief, the overall pandemic,
microbicides, and vaccines
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Read about our past events:
Rally Kicks
Off First Ever CU AIDS Week
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/12/01/
3fcc5596cefa2
AIDS Group interrupts speech, seeks policy
outline
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/02/20/
4035ce2c5f75f?in_archive=1
AIDS fight gets $125 million grant
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/03/01
/442fc5e76ae8?in_archive=1
Columbians,
start your mouses
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/03/05
/40480ea26f662?in_archive=1
Columbians make bid for first in click off to end
poverty
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/03/01
/404300f9743dc?in_archive=1
Forum calls anti-aids effort a "global effort"
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/09/16
/3f66d0dbb6f5d?in_archive=1
Voices of the Virus
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/blake/archives/000864.html
The Edwards action
http://www.nyunews.com/news/campus/6808.html
Time magazine: http://www.time.com/time/election2004/columnist/
klein/article/0,18471,593500,00.html
