Campaigning Groups

UK Based

Medecins Sans Frontieres
Web:www.msf.org/unitedkingdom or www.msf.org
An international doctors charity (known as Doctors Without Borders in the USA) which provides free medical assistance to people around the world, and also campaigns to highlight the plight of the people they help. They have successfully campaigned to improve access to essential medicines, and are active in the UK as well as in the developing world. Read one of their reports on this subject here.
MSF London
67-74 Saffron Hill
London EC1R 5DJ
Tel: 0207 404 6600
Fax: 0207 713 5004
E-mail: office-ldn@london.msf.org

Oxfam
Web: www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/health/index.htm
Oxfam is a development, relief, and campaigning organisation dedicated to finding lasting solutions to poverty and suffering around the world. The charity works with poor communities, local partners, volunteers and supporters to help this become a reality. They have been campaigning heavily to cut the cost of essential medicines, demanding that people come before profits and highlighting issues such as how the WTO patent rules directly affect poorer nations. Read one of their briefing papers on the subject, Priced out of Reach here.
Oxfam Supporter Relations
Oxfam House
John Smith Drive
Cowley
Oxford OX4 2JY
Tel: 0870 333 2700

Save the Children
Web: www.savethechildren.org.uk/scuk/jsp/..
The UK site of Save the Children, an organisation working to create a better future for children. They are active in around 70 countries worldwide. The site includes information on their campaigns such as the current Time for Change campaign.

VSO
Web: www.vso.org.uk
VSO is an international development charity that works through volunteers and campaigns on drug company ethical practices. Read their Beyond Philanthropy report (written in conjunction with Oxfam and Save the Children here.

Information on the Drugs and Drug Trials featured in the film

Canada

The Hospital for Sick Children – L1 Clinical Trials Review
Web: www.sickkids.on.ca/l1trials/section.asp/..
Read the chronological progress of the clinical trials of L1 on which Dr Nancy Olivieri was a key researcher.

College Vindicates Olivieri
Web: www.caut.ca/en/bulletin/issues/2002_jan/default.asp
In 2001, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario fully vindicated Dr Nancy Olivieri against complaints filed by the Hospital for Sick Children in 2000. This bulletin contains links to the complaints committee decision and the full 500 page report.

South Korea

Consumer Project on Technology: Glivec
Web: www.cptech.org/ip/health/gleevec
Healthcare and intellectual property resources on Glivec from Consumer Project on Technology.

Glivec
Web: www.glivec.com
The international website run by the drug company Novartis on the Leukaemia drug shown in the film.

Honduras

Consumer Project on Technology: AIDS
Web: www.cptech.org/ip/health/aids
Detailed intellectual property and 'access to medicine' information on AIDS from Consumer Project on Technology.

Consumer Project on Technology: Diflucan
Web: www.cptech.org/ip/health/fluconazole
Detailed healthcare and intellectual property resources on Diflucan (the brand name of the drug fluconazole) from Consumer Project on Technology.

Diflucan
Web: www.diflucan.com
Information from the drug company (Pfizer) that owns Diflucan.

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