• UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to receive memorandum of demands in Durban
• UN High Level Panel provides unique opportunity for governments to make historic changes in healthcare.

Durban, 17 July 2016: On the eve of the 21st International AIDS Conference, civil society organisations from across the world call on world leaders to take decisive steps to ensure that the nightmare of people not being able to afford AIDS medicines will not be repeated for people with other diseases, including HIV co-infections. We make this call in Durban, South Africa, where on the morning of 18 July we will hand a memorandum of demands to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.

In advance of the 34th meeting of the Global Fund Board, 33 civil society organizations from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region and their partner organizations from other regions sent an open letter to the Global Fund Board members, alternates and focal points.

34 European civil society organizations call on EU political leadership to urgently address communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and hepatitis C epidemics in the European Union and neighbouring countries.

Subject: Funding target of the 5th Replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Advocates request that the EC immediately start working on a comprehensive EU-Eastern Partnership Policy Framework, which will pave the way for HIV, tuberculosis and viral hepatitis elimination in both the EU and the Eastern European Region.

А letter from 89 organizations urges action to accelerate access to new and repurposed drugs to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Community groups sent public comments in support of the addition of rifapentine, delamanid, bedaquiline and linezolid to the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines.

An open letter requests that The Union take steps to retire the use of stigmatizing and criminalizing terminology from the papers published in its journals and the abstracts submitted to its conferences.

Over 70 organisations globally have called on the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to urgently finalise South Africa's National Intellectual Property (IP) Policy in an open letter delivered today (June 17). You can find a PDF of the open letter here. The Fix the Patent Law campaign thanks all signatories for their support for improving access to medicines in South Africa!

Below is a communication sent by Civil Society Organizations to Mark Dybul and others calling for the abandonment of the Global Fund’s misguided tiered-pricing initiative. The CS letter is attached.