Position Papers
Deciding what to advocate for can be a challenge for some smaller civil society organisations that do not feel they have the knowledge experience in specific areas or indeed the time to do the work. The World AIDS Campaign (WAC) aims to be a catalyst for providing information on some key positions either where the WAC has formulated them themselves or have been developed by other groups with specialist interest or experience.
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TRIPS, R&D and Access to Medicines
The magnitude of the AIDS crisis has drawn attention to the fact that millions of people in the developing world do not have access to the medicines that are needed to treat disease or alleviate suffering.
Universal Access - Fight for Action
The following letter was written to Dr. Peter Piot in 2006 to express concern over the the amount of country-level civil soceity participation in the universal access target setting process. To read more about national participation in universal access target setting, please visit www.ua2010.org.
Promises Promises
In 2006, WAC released a report for World AIDS Day that closely examined key AIDS statements, commitments and declarations by governments and the UN between 2000 - 2005 to see how they hold up under scrutiny as genuine ‘promises’.
