December 2, 2024|Access to Medicines, Health JusticeOn World AIDS Day, Activist Coalition Demands Accelerated Access to Revolutionary HIV PreventionPRESS STATEMENT For Immediate Release: December 2, 2024 Activist Coalition Demands Accelerated Access to Revolutionary HIV Prevention Calls on Governments in the Global South to Break Trade and Intellectual Property Barriers and Take on Gilead’s Power Countdown to access campaign…
September 24, 2024|Funding the Fight, Health JusticeActivists: World Bank President Ajay Banga Must Stand Up to Discrimination in Uganda Protest at Uganda’s U.N. Permanent Mission, 336 East 45th St, NY, Thurs Sept. 26 9am(Kampala and New York) One year after the World Bank announced there would be no new financing to Uganda after President Museveni signed a draconian new anti-LGBTQ law, called “among the worst in the world,” Bank President Ajay Banga is…
May 20, 2024|Health JusticeLGBTQ+, HIV Activists Demand U.S. Accountability on Human Rights in Kenya Ahead of President Ruto’s State VisitWhile LGBTQ+ Persecution Increases in Kenya, Ruto Seeks Major Deals with Coca-Cola and other U.S. Companies Lauded for Pro-LGBTQ+ Workplace Policies (Washington, D.C.) Human rights organizations called on the Biden administration to honor his promise to advance the rights…
January 30, 2024|Health JusticeHEALTH ACTIVIST GROUPS: DEFUNDING UNRWA IN GAZA IS AN ACT OF DEPRAVITY AND ENABLES A GENOCIDE‘’The clock is ticking fast towards famine… [in Gaza]’’[i] We are appalled. As organisations that have historically worked on issues of health justice and access to medicines for millions of people around the world, for decades, focusing on HIV/AIDS, TB, cancer, and…
July 17, 2023|Funding the Fight, Health JusticeDuring U.S. Trade Ambassador’s Trip to Kenya, Advocates Urge Action on LGBTQI+ RightsDuring pride month, a coalition of leading LGBTQI+, labor, trade, HIV, and human rights groups met with United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai to discuss the so-called Family Protection Bill - a copycat of the draconian new anti-LGBTQI+ law in…
June 29, 2023|Health JusticeAt Meeting With U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, Groups Tell Biden Administration to Pause Bilateral Trade Negotiations with Kenya Until President Ruto Commits to Vetoing Legislation that Further Criminalizes LGBTQI+ PeopleCongressional Equality Caucus Letter to USTR Tai Echoes Demand that Biden Administration Pause STIP Negotiations A coalition of leading LGBTQI+, labor, trade, HIV, and human rights groups met with United States Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai at her Washington, D.C.…
May 29, 2023|Health JusticeStatement from Health GAP Executive Director Asia Russell on President Museveni’s Signing of the Anti-Homosexuality Law, 2023“By signing this authoritarian, anti-human rights legislation, President Museveni is waging a deadly attack on his own citizens and further estranging Uganda from the rest of the world. Museveni’s action today is a full-throated attack on queer Ugandans’ human rights…
December 1, 2022|Access to Medicines, COVID-19, Funding the Fight, Health Justice, Transparency & AccountabilityFORGOTTEN BUT NOT GONE: On World AIDS Day, People with HIV, Long COVID and ME/CFS Protest Biden’s Pandemics Neglect, Urge Funding from Congress in Demonstration Outside the White HouseDecember 1, 2022 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE In an unprecedented on-site and virtual World AIDS Day protest, people with HIV united with chronically ill and disabled people with Long COVID, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), and others, in a rally today outside the…
July 28, 2022|Access to Medicines, Funding the Fight, Health JusticeHealth GAP Statement regarding ViiV – MPP Voluntary Licensing Agreement for CAB-LAFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 28, 2022 Health GAP Statement regarding ViiV - MPP Voluntary Licensing Agreement for CAB-LA “Just four months ago, ViiV announced it would not pursue voluntary licensing for CAB-LA to allow generic manufacturing and accessible pricing for…
July 27, 2022|Funding the Fight, Health Justice, Transparency & AccountabilityAs the International AIDS Conference Kicks Off in Montreal, New UNAIDS Global AIDS Update Shows Deadly Backsliding Away From Ending the Pandemic, With AIDS Deaths No Longer DecliningFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 27, 2022 As the International AIDS Conference Kicks Off in Montreal, New UNAIDS Global AIDS Update Shows Deadly Backsliding Away From Ending the Pandemic, With AIDS Deaths No Longer Declining Perfect storm rising of pandemic competition,…
