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1) Health Workers

  1. Health Care Workers Fact Sheet
  2. African Health Workers Platform
  3. African Health Capacity Investment Act Fact Sheet
  4. African Health Capacity Investment Act (full text)
  5. Overview of Physicians for Human Rights Report (PDF)
    An Action Plan to Prevent Brain Drain: Building Equitable Health Systems in Africa
  6. Full Text of PHR Action Plan (PDF)
  7. Brain Drain: Africa's Health Workforce Crisis (1.2MB PowerPoint)
  8. Get Involved
  9. Read More About This Issue

2) Access to Essential Medications

  1. Access to Essential AIDS Medications: A Medical Student Call to Action (PDF)
  2. Treat the People: Access to Essential AIDS Medications (PowerPoint)
  3. Read More About This Issue
  4. Brazil vs. Merck
    1. Brazil Puts Patients over Patents
    2. Brazil Breaks Patent on HIV Drug: Dispelling the Myths
  5. Thailand vs. Abbott
    1. Thailand issues compulsory licenses
    2. Abbott vs. Thailand: Fact or Fiction?

3) Global Disparities in HIV/AIDS

  1. Overview of UNAIDS/UNFPA/UNIFEM Joint Report
    Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis
  2. Full Text of Report (1MB)
  3. AIDS's Has a Woman's Face (1.2MB)
  4. Microbicides Development Act
    1. Microbicides FAQ
    2. Microbicides Development Act Overview
    3. Full text of Senate Bill S. 823
    4. Full text of House Bill
    5. Microbicides: New Hope for Prevention of HIV and Other STDs-Long Version (1MB)
    6. Microbicides: New Hope for Prevention of HIV and Other STDs-Short Version (710KB)
    7. Get Involved
    8. Read More About This Issue
  5. PATHWAY Act
    1. Overview of Bill
    2. Full Text of Bill
    3. One-pager on the bill for Advocates
    4. One-pager on the bill for Congress
    5. Findings from the Government Accountability Office and the Intitute of Medicine about why the abstinence-until-marriage earmark needs to be removed
    6. Get Involved
    7. Read more about the issue

Students

Direct Action: AMSA members urge Abbott CEO to 'Treat, not Trick' when it comes to their heat-stable HIV medicine, Kaletra.

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