Novartis, Stop It (AIDS Patent)
Novartis, a global pharmaceutical giant, is challenging India’s patent law. India supplies half of all AIDS medications used in poor countries. If Novartis wins its court case, access to AIDS treatment could be shut off for hundreds of thousands of people. Their lives hang in the balance. On February 14, 2007, AIDS activists demonstrated outside Novartis offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during a blizzard. Want to remix this video? See the press pack at wakeupsilver.blogspot.com More info at www.globaljusticenow.org and www.fightglobalaids.org Photos at www.flickr.com Demonstration organized by Health GAP Harvard AIDS Alliance Northeastern University School of Law SGAC Lawyers’ Guild Clark University AMSA MIT Video filmed with Canon digial still camera, edited in a few hours and posted to You Tube same day as the event. There was no budget, script, lighting, sleet-blocking device, or gloves.