Today is World AIDS Day, Please Take Action

Hey Everyone,

Today is World AIDS Day and it would be great if you could take a minute to help increase the availability of antiretrovirals and other life saving medicines in the developing world. I started a chapter of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines here at UCSD - it is a national advocacy organization that works to ensure Global Access Licencsing for university-based biotechnologies and drugs. You can ask me more about it if you are interested. Anyways, we are stepping up our campaign to encourage the President of the University of California system (Mark Yudof) to adopt global access licensing for all UC-developed health technologies. Please go to http://www.essentialmedicine.org/uc and sign the letter that will then be emailed to Yudof, and please send it to other friends and professors. Over 100 physical letters were already collected at UCSD alone, and nearly 1,000 at all the UC schools combined, and have been hand delivered to the UC President's office. We need to continue to remind him how important it is that the fruits of university research should be available to all, not just those who are fortunate enough to afford it.

Thanks,
Chris