The Global AIDS Policy Watch expresses total solidarity with the peers of the Directorate of AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Hepatitis, Tuberculosis and Leprosy, of the Ministry of Health of Argentina.
The Regional networks and organizations working on HIV / AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean (undersigned) express their outright rejection of recent decision of the Argentine government to close the Ministry of Health of the Nation, to subsume it as a secretariat within another portfolio.
Global AIDS Policy Watch deeply regrets the decision of the US Global AIDS Program to suspend direct funding through the 2016 Key Population Investment Fund (KIPF). The measure impacts the work of organizations that target the most vulnerable populations in the HIV/AIDS epidemic in low-income countries, who have been waiting for their grants for two years.
In Rio de Janeiro activists demand INPI to reject the patent. In São Paulo, activists remembered the deaths due to lack of access in front of Gilead’s office.
