By Priscilla Li Ying | Executive Director, Europe
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.
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