Activists Crash Pharmaceutical Giant's Symposium at International AIDS Conference

AIDS activists, organized by Act UP Paris, made their voices heard at a symposium sponsored by pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb yesterday, coinciding with the launch of the 17th Annual AIDS Conference, being in held in Mexico City this week. Bristol-Myers Squibb announced in March that it would stop distribution of a vital HIV drug for children known as efavirenz – a move that activists denounced as they took the stage and microphone at the symposium. Worldwide, more than 300,000 children died from AIDS last year alone and an estimated 420,000 children contracted the virus.

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