Uganda

Recent Developments

November 24, 2003. Memo from the Uganda Coalition for Access to Essential Medicines and the Consumer Project on Technology. Legal Mechanisms for Expanding Access to Generic Medicines in Uganda.

November 24, 2003. Letter from the Uganda Coalition for Access to Essential Medicines to the Minister of Health.

June 14, 2004. Charles Wendo for the New Vision. Uganda launches Free Access to ARVs Programme.

October 27, 2003. UN Integrated Regional Information Networks. Government Commits to Buying Generic Anti-Retrovirals.

September 16, 2003. Plus News. Uganda's Drug price cuts yet to reach PWAs.

July 11, 2003. Uganda Coalition for Access to Essential Medicines press release. Access Coalition Asks President Bush: 'Do You Want to Save Lives or Make Profits for American Pharmaceutical Companies?'

June 12, 2003. Gichinga Ndirangu from Health Action International. Note on controversy surrounding the NMS and discounted drugs.

May 31, 2003. Charles Wendo for The Lancet. Uganda's state-owned drug firm pressured to drop drug deal.

May 19, 2003. Edith Kimuli for the Kampala New Vision. House Cautioned On Drug Regulation.

May 19, 2003. Geresom Musamali for the New Vision. NMS stops AIDS drug deal.

May 17, 2003. Badru D. Mulumba for the Kampala Monitor. 3 Firms to Supply Cheap Aids Drugs.

Dispute involving Generic Duovir (AZT+3TC)

December 3, 2002. Glaxo Wellcome announces agreement with the government of Uganda to increase access to HIV/AIDS medicines.
August, 2001. Ugandan pharmaceutical firms apply for compulsory licenses for antiretroviral drugs, including AZT and 3TC. The Ministry of Health has not issued a license, citing quality concerns. See the Business Day stoty, Local HIV Generics Bid Rejected.
March, 2001. Treatment Action Group letter published in TheBody.com. vol 7, Issue 11. Open Letter to GlaxoSmithKline Executives.
December 19, 2000 Letter from CIPLA to Glaxo replying to a cease-and-desist letter from GlaxoSmithKline.
November 20, 2000 Letter from GlaxoWellcome to CIPLA regarding CIPLA's export of Duovir to Uganda. Here is a jpeg image of the letter.

Dispute Involving Uganda at the WTO's 5th Ministerial, Cancun, September 2003

September 18, 2003. Alex B. Atuhaire for the Kampala Monitor. Museveni: I Wrote to Mexico Team.
September 17, 2003. Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda & Badru D. Mulumba for the Kampala Monitor. MPs Attack Museveni Over WTO Talks.
September 16, 2003. Andrew M. Mwenda for the Kampala Monitor. Museveni Named As Talks Flop.
September 15, 2003. Ticha Khana for the East African. 'Museveni Letter' Threatens Third World Unity at Mexico's WTO Talks.

Misc.

Homepage of the Uganda AIDS Commission, which was established in 1992 to oversee the country's AIDS Programs. Its stated goals are to
1. Reduce HIV prevalence by 25% by the year 2005/6
2. Mitigate the health and socio-economic effects of HIV/AIDS at individual, household and community level
3. Strengthen the national capacity to respond to the epidemic
Undated report published jointly by WHO, UNAIDS, UNESCO, UNICEF, the World Bank and UNFPA. Uganda Reverses the Tide of AIDS. This document is a chapter of a full report titled Health: A Key to Prosperity - Success stories in Developing Countries.
February 13, 2003. UN Integrated Regional Information Networks. Leading User of Anti Retrovirals.
April 2, 2002. Ugandan Ministry of Health. HIV AIDS Surveillance Report.
March 23, 2002. Charles Wendo for The Lancet Volume 359, Number 9311. Health-rights organisation wants Uganda's intellectual property law delayed.
February 8, 2002. New Vision. HIV/Aids Tests Prices Slashed Again From Sh64,000 to Sh3,400.
January 22, 2002. Kikonyogo Ngatya for New Vision. HIV/Aids Test Fee to Drop in February.
December 6, 2001. AIDS Healthcare Foundation press release. The Ministry of Health/Government of Uganda, the Ugandan Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (UBC), and AIDS Healthcare Foundation Global Immunity (AHF GI) Join Forces in "Uganda Cares," a new AIDS Treatment Initiative.
December 8, 2000. Afrol.com document based on Economic Commission for Africa. President Museveni explains Uganda's success in combating AIDS.
December 1, 2000. UNAIDS press release. Uganda Successful Example of Strong Response to AIDS, UNAIDS Says.
June, 2000. UNAIDS Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Uganda.
News Stories
- November 4, 2003. Jovita Mirembe for the Kampala Montor. Firm to Make AIDS Drugs Here.
- July 11, 2003. Agence France Presse. Ugandan Aids activists question Bush's motives.
- November 1, 2002. Lydia Mugambe for the Kampala Monitor. Uganda Needs a Patent Regime That is Pro-Health.
- April 28, 2002. Editorial from the Kampala Monitor. Is US Taking Museveni for a Ride With AGOA?
- April 19, 2001. Reuters. Uganda Urges Compensation for AIDS Research Costs.

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