THE CENTER FOR AIDS - PRWeb Press Release Account Feed http://www.rsspad.com/rss2a/102093.xml THE CENTER FOR AIDS - Press Releases en xml@emediawire.com xml@emediawire.com 30 AIDS Activists Cry Foul as Drug Companies Push Prices to Record Levels http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/07/prweb261725.htm A steady onslaught of “unreasonable, unacceptable, and unjustified” increases in the price of therapies to treat HIV has caused activists in the US to accuse drugmakers of artificially inflating the market at the expense of people living with HIV/AIDS. In the US, prices charged for medications are often much higher than in other developed countries. This tends to work against patients, even those who have insurance. By working with legislators, consumer protection groups, and other advocacy groups, AIDS activists envision a future where unbridled greed does not dictate what treatments patients can afford or how public resources are spent in the effort to keep people alive. (PRWeb Jul 15, 2005)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/07/prweb261725.htm Facing Continued Challenges in AIDS http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/06/prweb252350.htm Facing continued challenges in the AIDS epidemic, a Houston-based community advocacy organization marks 10 years of service and changes its name. The Center for AIDS: Hope & Remembrance Project will now be known as The Center for AIDS Information & Advocacy to more clearly reflect its ongoing mission. In the past 4 years alone, the organization's client contacts have doubled to almost 3,000. The executive director of the organization notes, "As growing numbers of people become infected with HIV each day, we have an obligation to fight ignorance with education, stigma with compassion and disease with access to the best treatments available... Many people mistake AIDS in America as an issue of the past, but it is very much still with us and eating at the fabric of our society every day... " (PRWeb Jun 18, 2005)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/06/prweb252350.htm Activists Demand Permanent Price Freeze on AIDS and Hepatitis C Medications http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/10/prweb169407.htm AIDS activists issued a strong letter to the CEOs of seven major pharmaceutical companies demanding a price freeze in the United States for medications used to treat AIDS and hepatitis C. The letter, addressed to the CEOs of each company and signed by 200 AIDS service organizations, hospitals, faith-based groups, and HIV provider groups across the country, opens with a strong call to action: “the time has come for a drastic change in your company’s drug pricing practices in the United States.” The letter points to continuing company pricing practices that have resulted in mammoth profits, in the face of soaring health insurance premiums and decreased funding for lifesaving HIV/AIDS medications for people who cannot otherwise afford them. (PRWeb Oct 20, 2004)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/10/prweb169407.htm AIDS Activists Outraged by Abbott Settlement with AIDS Healthcare Foundation http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/07/prweb142638.htm The news of a settlement reached between Abbott Laboratories and California-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) in two lawsuits drew fire from the AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition (ATAC). Abbott’s 400% price increase last December for its drug Norvir, a protease inhibitor used to treat HIV but more commonly used now in small doses to help make other HIV drugs more potent, has sparked a furor among activists, but also healthcare providers. This has resulted in a series of state investigations, lawsuits, and demonstrations against Abbott. (PRWeb Jul 21, 2004)

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