Global South Dialogue on Access to Medicines

With support from the Public Health Program’s Access to Essential Medicines Initiative and OSI’s Information Program, India’s Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit will host a four-day strategy meeting in April 2008. Sixty global advocates, civil society groups, and experts will convene to examine trade, intellectual property, and access to medicines issues. In assessing the landscape at a national, regional, and international level, participants will learn from civil society successes and identify challenges that remain. The objective is for civil society groups to identify priority issues and key advocacy campaigns that will be pursued over the next three to five years and foster increased collaboration in the global south.