Abolish user fees?
The global AIDS crisis and the first 100 days of George W. Bush’s Administration: a report card from the health gap coalition
Why the US government needs to change its position on HIV/AIDS
Authors:
; Health GAP Coalition
Publisher:
Global Treatment Access Campaign , 2001
The article indicates that Bush's administration gained international attention with its decision to retain the Executive Order that affirmed the rights of sub-Saharan African countries to manufacture and import affordable generic medication without facing sanctions from the US, as they had in the past.
The Health GAP coalition demands the Bush Administration:
- allocate $2 billion in new US money to the UN fund for AIDS treatment, care and prevention
- allocate proportional financial support to both treatment and prevention
- support global AIDS drug distribution and procurement at lowest prices, including access to generics
- Immediately call on the IMF and World Bank to use its own resources to cancel debt owed by the world’s poorest countries; the US must also call on the World Bank to abandon its support for user fees for health care and education
- immediately end the WTO dispute against Brazil’s over compulsory licensing and Brazil’s domestic patent law
- support the creation of health exceptions to trade agreements, such as the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement)
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