AIDS Advocacy Network (AAN) Issues

1) HEALTH WORKERS

• Health Care Workers Fact Sheet
• African Health Workers Platform
• African Health Capacity Investment Act Fact Sheet
• African Health Capacity Investment Act (full text)
• Overview of Physicians for Human Rights Report (PDF)
  An Action Plan to Prevent Brain Drain: Building Equitable Health Systems in Africa
• Full Text of PHR Action Plan (PDF)
• Brain Drain: Africa's Health Workforce Crisis (1.2MB PowerPoint)
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2) ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL MEDICATIONS

• Access to Essential AIDS Medications: A Medical Student Call to Action (PDF)
• Treat the People: Access to Essential AIDS Medications (PowerPoint)
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• Brazil vs. Merck
  • Brazil Puts Patients over Patents
  • Brazil Breaks Patent on HIV Drug: Dispelling the Myths
• Thailand vs. Abbott
  • Thailand issues compulsory licenses
  • Abbott vs. Thailand: Fact or Fiction?

3) GLOBAL DISPARITIES IN HIV/AIDS

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