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United Nations and World Health Organization websites:

UNAIDS: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

• Accelerating Access to HIV Care, Support and Treatment (UNAIDS)

World Health Organization (WHO) / Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS)   

• Health as a Human Right (World Health Organization)

• {···français: La sante en tant que droit de l'homme} 

• HIV/AIDS 

Other websites:

Access to health (Novo Nordisk)

AEGIS: The largest HIV/AIDS website in the world

AIDS & Africa: Comprehensive, up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS in Africa

AIDS Law Project - South Africa

• HIV and AIDS: Your Rights in the Workplace (AIDS Law Project)

AIDS, Poverty and Development (Global Policy Forum)

Aventis: Partnerships for Health -...Aventis teamed up with WHO and other groups to ensure that the products needed to tackle such epidemics reach those in need. Partnerships include the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, and the recently formed partnership to tackle African Sleeping Sickness. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)

Biodiversity, Access, Indigenous Knowledge and IPRs [intellectual property rights] (Third World Network)

Biopiracy and appropriation of traditional knowledge (Third World Network)

Biotechnology (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)

Biotechnology: Ethics & The Industry (Industry Canada, Government of Canada)

Center for Bioethics (University of Pennsylvania)

Consumer Project on Technology

• Web page on Cipro patent dispute: Ciprofloxacin: the Dispute over compulsory licenses (Consumer Project on Technology)

• Health Care and Intellectual Property (Consumer Project on Technology)

• Public Policy Issues Related to Intellectual Property (Consumer Project on Technology)

European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (European Commission)

Financial Compensation for Nazi Slave Laborers website (ReligiousTolerance.org)

Genetic Engineering (Greenpeace)

Genetic Engineering (Sierra Club)

GeneWatch UK

Global Alliance for Leprosy Elimination (Novartis, World Health Organization)

The Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS 

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria: Private Sector -...The creation of such a public-private partnership requires the full involvement of the private sector, both as a strategic partner in building strong alliances to fight these diseases, and as a source of expertise and experience. The Global Fund encourages the private sector to take a fully active role in fighting AIDS, TB and malaria

A Global Roadmap for Modern Biotechnology: An issues-based navigational tool with policy options for decision-makers in the public and private sectors (International Chamber of Commerce)

Global Trade Negotiations: Intellectual Property Rights (Center for International Development at Harvard University) 

Global Treatment Access Campaign: Campaign for Affordable AIDS Drugs and Essential Medicines

Green Power Market Development Group: a collaboration of 10 leading corporations [Alcoa, Cargill Dow, Delphi Automotive, DuPont, General Motors, IBM, Interface, Johnson & Johnson, Kinkos, Pitney Bowes] and the World Resources Institute dedicated to building corporate markets for green power. 

Health (Third World Network)

Health Action International

Health and Human Rights Database (Boston University School of Public Health)

Health Gap Coalition: Bridging the Gap in Access to Medicines 

HIV/AIDS (Global Development Gateway)

HIV/AIDS and Human Rights (Health and Human Rights, published by François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights [Harvard School of Public Health])

HIV/AIDS Pilot Project: To deliver patented therapies & other treatments to patients in developing countries (International Intellectual Property Institute)

Impact of HIV/AIDS (Eldis: the gateway to development information)

Increasing Access to Essential Drugs in a Globalised Economy (Health Action International)

Indigenous Knowledge (Global Development Gateway)

Indigenous Knowledge and Community Rights (Third World Network)

Industry Watch: Pharmaceuticals (Washington Post)

Institute for OneWorld Health: The mission of the Institute for OneWorld Health is to develop new, essential and affordable medicines for neglected diseases (Institute for OneWorld Health)

Integrity in Science: The Integrity in Science project seeks to safeguard science and the public welfare from the corruptive effects of industry’s influence (Integrity in Science, a project of The Center for Science in the Public Interest)

• DATABASE: Scientists' and Non-Profits' Ties to Industry: The Center for Science in the Public Interest has launched this Internet site to provide information about the links between hundreds of scientists — mostly in the fields of nutrition, environment, toxicology, and medicine — and businesses. All too often, such ties result in conflicts of interest, especially when neither the scientists nor the corporations disclose them. (Integrity in Science, a project of The Center for Science in the Public Interest)

Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Creativity (World Intellectual Property Organization)

International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO)

International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (IFPMA)

International Partnership against AIDS in Africa

Issues Library: Biotechnology (CorpWatch)

Médecins Sans Frontières

• Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines (Médecins Sans Frontières)

• DNDi, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative: A global initiative to develop drugs for those in need (Médecins Sans Frontières)

Novartis' Concept of Development (Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development)

Novo Nordisk equal opportunities toolbox (Novo Nordisk)

• Why EO [equal opportunities] (Novo Nordisk)
• background paper: Why focusing on Equal Opportunities? (Novo Nordisk)

• Age: Novo Nordisk equal opportunities toolbox (Novo Nordisk)
• Disability: Novo Nordisk equal opportunities toolbox (Novo Nordisk)
• Gender: Novo Nordisk equal opportunities toolbox (Novo Nordisk)
• Political opinion/trade union membership: Novo Nordisk equal opportunities toolbox (Novo Nordisk)
• Pregnancy/maternity: Novo Nordisk equal opportunities toolbox (Novo Nordisk)
• Race/ethnicity/national origin: Novo Nordisk equal opportunities toolbox (Novo Nordisk)
• Religion: Novo Nordisk equal opportunities toolbox (Novo Nordisk)
• Sexual orientation: Novo Nordisk equal opportunities toolbox (Novo Nordisk)

Novo Nordisk positions: Access to health in developing countries (Novo Nordisk)

Novo Nordisk positions: Human Rights (Novo Nordisk)

Novo Nordisk positions: Intellectual property rights and patenting (Novo Nordisk)

Oxfam's Cut the Cost campaign

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)

• Health Care in the Developing World (PhRMA)

• PhRMA Position Papers on Intellectual Property (PhRMA)

Sierra Club:

• Genetic Engineering (Sierra Club)

• Sierra Club Policies: Biotechnology

Special report: The Aids crisis (Guardian [UK])

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security (Friends of the Earth)

Thai Business Initiative in Rural Development (TBIRD), examples of succesful projects: Bristol-Myers Squibb (Thailand) Ltd. (Population and Development Association [PDA], Thailand)

Thailand Business Coalition on Aids

Treatment Action Campaign: Fighting for affordable treatment for people with HIV (South Africa)

TRIPS, sui generis and plant variety protection (Third World Network)

World Trade Organization website (World Trade Organization)

• TRIPS [trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights] material on the WTO website

World Trade Organization and Indigenous Peoples (Indigenous Environmental Network)