SGAC in the news

Check out a joint Princeton SGAC and ACT-UP Philly action on Abbott:

The company, located in Whippany, sent no one to meet with the demonstrators -- all members of the Princeton Student Global AIDS Campaign and ACT UP Philadelphia -- although the picketers left a gift basket filled with melted Easter bunnies and a letter addressed to CEO Miles White.

The group explained that the melted candy was symbolic of how useless the older versions of the company's leading AIDS medication, Kaletra, become when not refrigerated. The FDA approved a new version of the drug in October that does not require refrigeration and can be taken without food, and the letter lists the group's demands, which include affordable pricing for the new version of Kaletra in low- and middle-income countries.

I love creative demonstrations.