Support Student Advocacy for Access to Medicines

Hello you!

Summer is drawing to a close, and with it the beautiful autum colours, isn't that nice too?

UAEMers around the globe have kept busy the last few months : from Washington to Boston to Berlin and Amsterdam to Rio de Janeiro, and many more. Throughout the summer, our student-volunteers participated and engaged in a number of conferences, building on the awareness on the importance of access to medicines for all. Summer was also synomym to learning and to empowerment, when our student-vounteers attended training camps and got together for leadership meetings.

Our global Transparency campaign is taking on a new turn as collaboration betweent the different regions is strengthened, with alwas our students at the core of it. Coming up soon too is the North America Fall Conference, but shhh, I can't tell you more, you have to stick around to know ;) 

Every little step counts in a world where issues which affect millions are decided upon by a select few. We have to do our part, and our student-volunteers are fully engaged and motivated to make this world a better place, where access to medicines responds to the needs of people and not the needs of profit-driven companies. All of our successes and achievements are yours too, because you care by supporing us. Your support matters, we appreciate that.

Check out below some pictures of our cool feats this summer,

Make the most of those last summer days and let's step into autumn with joy.

UAEM Love

At UAEM, each month of the year comes with stories to tell, and May has an outstanding one! UAEMers flew from around the world to do some collective advocacy for Access to Medicines, in no other event than the 71st World Health Assembly!

The 71st Word Health Assembly (WHA) was held in Geneva at the Palais des Nations from May 21st to 26th 2018. This high-level event is such an exciting opportunity for our UAEMers to meet and talk with and learn from all the acccess to medicines experts and professionals on a variety of issues and themes which UAEM is concerned with.

Our dynamic team consisted of 9 UAEMers from Brazil, the US, Canada, Germany, France and India. With fiery enthusiasm, our UAEMers sat in meetings and attended discussions, asked questions and more importantly talked to delegates and civil society representatives on the role of students in advancing efforts to make medicines affordable for all. With much poise and intelligence, our team highlighted how universities and students within their universities can make a difference in this fight. 

For our UAEMers, participating in this event was an enriching experience, giving them an insight of how policies are discussed further to understaanding the impact of consistent advocacy. But more importantly, it gave UAEMers an opportunity to convey our mission and to allow its student volunteers to be part of the solution by raising a collective student voice in awareness of the access to medicines issue.