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  • Title: New frontier of AIDS activism: international trade rules and global access to medicines. Interview by John S. James.
    Author: Sawyer E.
    Journal: AIDS Treat News; 1999 Apr 16; (No 317):1, 5-8. PubMed ID: 11366992.
    Abstract:
    Eric Sawyer, co-founder of ACT UP/New York and director of the HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Project, was interviewed regarding a meeting on compulsory licensing of essential medical technologies. Approximately 90 percent of those who are HIV-positive do not have access to modern medicines. Poverty and the unconscionable trade rules were reported as reasons for inaccessibility to those medicines. The key concepts of compulsory licensing and parallel importing, as well as controversies regarding these issues are discussed. Suggestions for making medicines accessible, such as redesigning trade policies and changing research and development provisions for the pharmaceutical industry, are presented.
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