Sixty-eight per cent of the global total of people living with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa, the part of Africa served by the Stephen Lewis Foundation.  There are grandmothers, parents and children right now in sub-Saharan Africa dying by the hundreds of thousands for want of proper health care and treatment drugs.

In May of 2004, the Canadian Parliament passed legislation, called the Canadian Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR), to allow the flow of generic drugs, including antiretroviral drugs, to developing countries.  Unfortunately the legislation isn’t working: everything is getting tied up in red tape.

Canadian Grandmothers for Africa: A National Advocacy Network has elected to join other organizations in lobbying the government and trying to raise public awareness about this tragic situation, with the goal of ensuring that the Canadian legislation will be changed so it will work properly.  This is the focus of our actions around Canadian generic drug legislation.  Select from the following to learn more.

• Background
• Initiatives to Date
• Summary Document