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Microbicides Advocacy at the EU level

Rebekah Webb

European Coordinator, GCM


Interact Worldwide, NAT, THT, IHAA,

ICW

Cairde

Abraco

AIDS Fonds/SAN!

SENSOA; Stop AIDS Alliance;

IPPF-ENAIDES

Grupo de Trabajo sobre del tratamiento

del VIH; Creacion Positiva

AIDS Fondet/ HIV Denmark

HIV Norge Global Campaign Europe


EU Advocacy Goals

• European Union is politically and financially supportive of microbicides

• EU funding is effective and efficient• EU policy on development, research and

health is pro-microbicide• EU regulatory policy is not a barrier to

microbicide licensing and access• EU policy on microbicides recognises and

supports the importance of community involvement in the microbicide effort EU = 25 member states plus the Commission Commission initiates policy, co-decision with

Parliament


Every European nation should be:

• Funding microbicide R&D, including rectal and HIV positive research questions

• Developing policies for introduction and use

• Engaged in a dialogue with stakeholders on introduction

• Building developing country health infrastructure supportive of trials

• Contributing to EU mechanisms and policies for research

• Encouraging the private sector to engage


EU Member StatesDonors =

NORWAYSWEDEN DENMARK N’LANDS IRELANDUK

‘Donors’ not yet converted:

FINLAND GERMANYFRANCE BELGIUMSPAIN


Increase in European public sector funding

since 2000


Resource tracking exercise

• Total investment in 2004 was $140 million, of which only $3 million went to advocacy

• Increase of more than 2 fold between 2000 and 2004

• Europe increased its share of funding from 2% to 23%

• Largest funder is the NIH (US)


What works?

• Working in coalition• Regular info-sharing meetings in Bxls• Joint civil society statements• Timely interventions as part of civil

society input into policy development• Letters to Ministers (Council)• Postcard campaigns• MEP champions in each committee and

each party• Lobbying around specific issues


Joint Statements


From left to right: Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (PES President), Geena Gonsalves (Action Aid International), Michael Cashman (MEP), Ivy Kakiiza (Action Aid International), Marie-Arlette Carlotti (MEP), Marta Monteso Cullell (Stop AIDS Alliance), Tadeusz Iwinski (SLD Poland), Mamadou Diallo (IAVI) and Ruairi Quinn (LP Ireland)


Write on the Minister’s speech!


GCM Role:

• The need for an independent entity to mobilise civil society participation in research

• Enhance and monitor civil society participation in decision-making

• Information sharing, networking and collaboration across regions, creation of common resources

• Technical assistance to partners• Messaging and strategy development• Accountability – independence and

engagement/coordination of civil society

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