By Carolina Andrada | UAEM Student Leader at Johns Hopkins University
Hi! My name is Carolina Andrada, I’m 21 years old and originally from Argentina. I spent the summer as an intern at Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) North America doing what I love: defending people’s right to access to medicines and healthcare.
Did you know that more than one in three life-saving medicines originates in universities, funded by tax-payers? Our work at UAEM helps to ensure the fruits of this university research and development is affordable and available to the people who need it most.
One of our major projects in the pipeline is our conference coming up in October at Emory University. With your support via Global Giving we have been able to raise much-needed funds to support the travel of new students from Brazil, India, Europe and North America to participate in this access to medicines advocacy training weekend. This way, we will have even more brilliant minds at the table to inspire and work together on university campuses to fight for access to medicine for all.
Throughout the summer, I also helped to organize an event in Washington DC. In a small speech, I expressed how concerning it was to be so young in such a turbulent age, but how invigorating it was to know that nevertheless, I have the ability to create change that matters. It was incredible to witness the sincere care that our friends and peers felt for other people, and it was so empowering to know that they cared about our fight for access to medicines. Your support via GlobalGiving means that we now have more funds to help more students like me with their travel to our next gathering at Emory. We are excited to bring more incredible young activists to our training, to empower them to action at their universities to help ensure new medicines are affordable and available to all not just the privileged few.
My fellow student activists are busy preparing for the conference now, and I am busy preparing for our next big project. Stay tuned to learn more from my other team members around the world about their experiences at the conference and our upcoming global access to medicines week happening on university campuses worldwide!
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