African AIDS Action is a grassroots organization founded and run by Africans who are badly affected by the AIDS epidemic.

"At present, ARVs can be produced at a far lower cost than ever before and there is massive need, but the extreme demand is not accompanied by the necessary purchasing power among the needy. A key policy option would be to bridge that gap by combining the most economic production of ARVs with a dramatic extension of the ability of patients to pay for them

Like other Hon. Members, I find African AIDS Action's case interesting. I also fully appreciate that drugs must be distributed once they are made and that patients need proper instruction in how to take them and proper diagnosis in the first place to determine which drugs they need."

The Rt. Hon. Alan Duncan MP Conservative Party Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary and former International Development Secretary in the House of Commons on 2nd November 2004 when Parliament debated the African AIDS Action Proposal Project for more than two hours.