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from our March 2007 parliamentary lobby event.
Programme information
10:00 - 11:15: Campaigner briefing at >
Emmanuel
Centre (map)
11:30 - 12:30: Public event with Andrew Mitchell MP at the Emmanuel
Centre
13:00 - 16:00: Meet your MP in the House of Commons
16:00 – 17:00: Demo and hand in of mass petition to 10 Downing
Street
1700 onwards: Social event (venue tbc)
A programme with further details will be available soon.
Lobbying your MP
Please make sure you arrange to meet your MP as soon as possible.
Send them a quick email now with details about when (between 1pm
and 4pm) and why you want to meet (to discuss Government efforts
to combat HIV and AIDS), and make sure you phone them straight afterwards
to follow up. Call 020 7219 3000 and ask for their office. Doing
this in advance will make the day much more successful. You can
download a guide about lobbying your MP, and can find out more about
your MP with the links above right.
Full briefings for the day will be available on
this page shortly. Support for travel expenses is also available
for student campaigners – please contact >
Katy Athersuch
at Student Partnership Worldwide.
What follows the
event?
The months following the event will be crucial on the road to Universal
Access to AIDS Services:
• 5th-6th April: the G8 Development Ministers meet in Tokyo.
• Between April and June: launch of new UK AIDS Strategy expected.
• End of April: international meeting to agree a global plan
of action on improving access to current and future medicines.
• 28th-30th May: Tokyo International Conference for African
Development, setting the agenda for the G8 Summit.
• 10th-11th June: UN summit will announce mid-term progress
towards Universal Access by 2010.
• 5th-7th July: G8 Summit, Hokkaido, Japan –will the
G8 keep their promises?
Resources
Stop AIDS Campaign’s current briefing >
'Shaping
the UK’s HIV and AIDS Strategy' (pdf file)
Report of > last
year’s parliamentary lobby event
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