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Access to Medicines Global Health Fair Success!

25 November 2009

Our Global Health fair was quite a success! Thanks go out to RECURSO, Human Rights Awareness on Campus, Student Global AIDS Campaign, the Virology Society, and Global Empowerment for making such amazing displays- we were so glad to meet/ reconnect with you all!

Fatimat spreadin’ that awareness

Student Global AIDS campaign teaches us about [...]

Affordable Medicines Now!

25 November 2009

Check out this very informative and entertaining video by the Affordable Medicines Now campaign, a collaboration between UAEM and AMSA trying to counter Big Pharma’s push for ridiculously long periods of data exclusivity on biologics.
Affordable Medicine Now from Affordable Medicine on Vimeo.

meeting minutes 9/30

30 September 2009

Here are tonight’s meeting minutes:
-Finalized details for fair: Nov. 12th in the Plaza of the Americas between 11am-2pm.
-May try to set up night before
-Contact ONE, Recurso, SVS (Aleks); Engineers without Borders, Global Empowerment (Laura); SGAC (Celeste); Pre-Pharm (Christina); Invisible Children (Caitlyn); Human Rights Awareness (Fatima)
-Contact all above groups to meet with us Oct. 14th at [...]

Ichetucknee Springs Social this Saturday!

24 September 2009

Join your favorite group of UAEM-ers for a beautiful and relaxing float down the Ichetuknee!
We’ll meet on campus to carpool at 10am- just bring your swimsuit, $5.00 to enter the park, and maybe some sunscreen! If you’d like to tube, you can bring your own tube (awesome animal shaped ones are highly encouraged) or [...]

Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge

13 September 2009

Come to the Orange and Brew this Tuesday for a screening of “Rx for Survival”, an enlightening PBS documentary which touches on many important issues within global health and access to medicines. Plus, we’ll have some delicious free food!