HEALTH GLOBAL ACCESS PROJECT INCORPORATED
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Mission Statement
Health GAP (Global Access Project) is an organization of U.S.-based AIDS and human rights activists, people living with HIV/AIDS, public health experts, fair trade advocates and concerned individuals who campaign against policies of neglect and avarice that deny treatment to millions and fuel the spread of HIV. We are dedicated to eliminating barriers to universal access to affordable life-sustaining medicines for people living with HIV/AIDS as key to a comprehensive strategy to confront and ultimately stop the AIDS pandemic. We believe that the human right to life and to health must prevail over the pharmaceutical industry's excessive profits and expanding patent rights.
About This Cause
We campaign for drug access and the resources necessary to sustain access for people with HIV/AIDS across the globe. We work with allies in the global South and in the G-8 countries to formulate policies that promote access, mobilize grassroots support for those policies, and confront governmental policy makers, the pharmaceutical industry and international agencies when their policies or practices block access. Health GAP also invests tremendous resources into rebuilding and sustaining the global AIDS movement. We actively organize students and people living with HIV/AIDS throughout the United States, supporting organizations like ACT UP NY, ACT UP Philadelphia, ACT UP Rhode Island, ACT UP Boston, ACT UP San Francisco, Florida AIDS Won't Wait Coalition, Chicago AIDS Caucus and VOCAL Westchester with staff time, resources and technical assistance. We know that our seats at the table are only as useful as the movement pushing from the outside is strong. Sustained access cannot result from industry-controlled charity programs. Multiple strategies are needed to lower drug prices to affordable levels. These strategies include generic production, voluntary and compulsory licensing and parallel importing. A system of global bulk procurement at lowest world prices is crucial if people living with HIV in the poorest countries are to have access to treatment. We reject efforts by industry or governments to deny or restrict the right of countries to exercise these and other strategies to protect the health of their people.