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 by 2008. 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.