The young people fighting AIDS and big pharma
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Demanding radical reforms.
The pharmaceutical industry is broken, and people with HIV and AIDS are dying every day as a result. These young activists are stepping up to lead the fight to fix it.
On Wednesday 9th March, protesters gathered outside a meeting of UN’s High Level Panel for Access to Medicines, taking direct action to bring HIV and AIDS necessarily back into the spotlight. These campaigners were from Youth Stop AIDS, a passionate group of young people determined to reform an unjust pharmaceutical system.
In an effort to expose the reckless profiteering of the pharmaceutical industry, activists donned masks of Martin Shkreli, the notorious Pharma bro responsible for jacking up the price of a drug used to treat AIDS-related illnesses by over 5,000%. The masked activists emerged from a makeshift structure representative of ‘the system’. The point? That the problem isn’t just Shkreli, it’s the profit-led system that allows him, and others like him, to flourish.
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