Canadian grannies and their families rap to K’naan’s Wavin Flag to demand that Canada make good on its promise to provide affordable medicines to countries in need. A child dies every 6 seconds in developing countries because of a lack of affordable, lifesaving medicines. Some 17 million children in Africa have been orphaned because of HIV/AIDS. Most are being raised by their courageous, desperately poor grandmothers. You can help–take action at http://www.aidsaction.ca/ and contact your local politicians today!
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We are a collection of folks who care about access to medicine issues. We started this blog because there didn't seem to be too many hubs where information of this sort could be found (written in a non-academic way anyway). We blog mostly on topic, sometimes with a Canadian angle: but not always.
Authors include:
Kevin Charles | posts | bio
Stephanie Gatto | posts | bio
David Ng | posts | bio
Natasha Ovtcharenko | posts | bio
THE WTF GLOSSARY
A basic primer (start here)
CAMR/Bill C-393
Data Exclusivity
Compulsory Licenses EU-India FTA
Patent Pools
ARVs What they do.
You may also notice that there will be a lot of things related to the Canadian election (at least until May anyway). This is because there are some spectacular instances of unethical behaviour in Canadian politics specifically in reference to Access to Medicine. Don't forget to vote (dammit!)
What is this Bill C-393 that keeps getting mentioned? A primer can be found here. FOLKS WE ADMIRE
My Rights Versus Yours 