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To set up, with your contributions and support, a manufacturing facility for producing life-saving anti-retroviral drugs and other basic medicines on a not-for-profit basis in Africa and make them universally affordable and accessible to all Africans. To empower ourselves to combat those killer diseases that are threatening our existence, by transferring technology and knowledge to our continent.
"Fewer
than...one in a thousand are being treated with anti-retroviral
drugs (ARVs). These statistics clearly illustrate why
African AIDS Action and other organisations are pressing
as hard as they can to ensure that a much larger volume
of ARVs are made available in Africa for HIV/AIDS sufferers.
African AIDS Action, I shall
call it AAA from now on to avoid repeating myself, aims
to produce large quantities of essential anti-AIDS drugs
and to price them at an affordable level so that Africans,
assisted by the international community, can have universal
free access to HIV treatment."
The Rt. Hon. Tom Brake, United
Kingdom MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Education Secretary
and former Shadow 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.
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