by harriet | Aug 4, 2021 | Comment, News, Uncategorized
On 13th July, Members of Parliament voted not to reverse the cuts to the UK overseas aid budget from 0.7% of Gross National Income to 0.5%. We are incredibly saddened and disappointed by this result which will have a significant impact on the lives of the poorest and...
by harriet | Aug 13, 2020 | Comment, News, Uncategorized
With COVID-19 bringing into stark view the inequality that surrounds access to medicines around the world, Youth Stop AIDS campaigner Jash Shah reflects on how human life and ethics are side-lined in the face of profit. Life over profit. Money, not morality is the...
by harriet | Jun 18, 2020 | Comment, News, Uncategorized
As we have expressed in recent weeks, Youth Stop AIDS is outraged and deeply saddened by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade and the countless other lives which have been taken due to police brutality in the US and around the...
by harriet | Apr 25, 2016 | Comment
On Intellectual Property Day (April 26th), Emily Thomas, a Youth Stop AIDS Campaigner from London, takes us back to Robbie’s and Brian’s stories from the Speaker Tour earlier this year, reminding us why drug monopolies can be dangerous and why young people...
by harriet | Dec 16, 2015 | Comment
Hepatitis C treatment is now on sale for $10 a pill in Egypt. This would be great news if everyone living with Hep C lived in Egypt. Our system for developing new medicines leads to vital drugs being too expensive for the people that need them. Half a million people...
by ysa_admin | Sep 23, 2015 | Comment
Nick Henderson was a participant on the 2014 Student Stop AIDS Speaker tour. He is currently a member of the European AIDS Treatment Group and the Youth Stop AIDS Steering Committee. Martin Shkreli; He’s the former hedge fund manager that the world loves to hate. His...
