Access to Life-Saving Drugs

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Access to Life-Saving Drugs

• Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
• UAEM

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Newbie
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Access GapResearch Gap
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Ten million will die in 2007Why?
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Price
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Stavudine Success
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New York Times

• I once helped create a drug that could enable
  millions of people to lead better and longer
  lives.

D4T should be either cheap or free
insub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. William Prusoff, the Principal Investigator
for D4T as quoted in the op-ed, The Scientists
Story he published in the NYT on March 19, 2001.
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Second-line Therapies
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40 Million
Treatment Scale-up
1.3 million
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niversities

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A Simple Proposal

• Universities should adopt humanitarian
  licensing terms to ensure that
• every drug developed in campus laboratories be
  made available in poor countries
• at the lowest possible cost.

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A Promising Solution
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This is what it means to be a great research
university.
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Less than 1
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Fast-Growing Momentum
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World Health Organization

• Public research institutions and universities
  in developed countries should seriously consider
  initiatives designed to ensure that access to RD
  outputs relevant to the health concerns of
  developing countries and to products derived
  therefrom, are facilitated through appropriate
  licensing policies and practices.

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The Public Research in the Public Interest
ActS.4040

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

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New Chair of the Judiciary Committee
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Philadelphia Consensus Statement

• Paul Farmer
• Jeffrey Sachs
• Stephen Lewis
• Victoria Hale (One World Health)
• 4 Nobel Laureates in Science or Medicine
• Former Deans of the Schools of Public Health at
  Yale and at Harvard
• 2 former editors of the New England Journal of
  Medicine
• Assistant Secretary of Health under Clinton and
  Johnson
• Patient groups from Thailand, India, and South
  Africa
• The list just goes on

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Press
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Stanford White Paper

• California Institute of Technology
• Cornell University
• Harvard University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Stanford University
• University of California
• University of Illinois, Chicago
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• University of Washington
• Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
• Yale University
• Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

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Laudable Language
Action
National Day of
April 18, 2007
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National Day of Action

• 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 to commemorate the
  27,000 people that will die on the National Day
  of Action alone due to lack of access to existing
  medicines.
• Harvard students will host a speech by former
  World Health Organization HIV Director, Dr. Jim
  Yong Kim.
• 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 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 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
  world that lack access to existing medicines.

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You
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Make a Difference Today

• Sign the Philadelphia Consensus Statement
• National Day of Action

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www.essentialmedicine.org/cs