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McGill Radio & Access to Essential Medicines

By apalazzo on November 20, 2006.

So not only is McGill's radio station CKUT hosting a new show on global health, Health on Earth, but for their first edition they'll be talking about the Access to Essential Medicines campaign spearheaded by Doctors Without Borders. You may recall that I recently wrote about the student branch of this organization, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM). The goal of UAEM is to get their local universities to sign Equitable Access Licenses (EAL) that would lift patent barriers on drugs developed by these institutions. EAL agreements would effectively increase the access of medicines to poor countries.

To listen to Health on Earth, tune in tomorrow (and every Tuesday) to CKUT 90.3FM from 8:30-9pm. For those not in the Montreal metro area, you can stream the show live:
http://secure.ckut.ca/cgi-bin/live64_m3u.cgi

or download the mp3: (available one hour after airing)
http://132.216.18.132/128/20061121.20.30-21.00.mp3

or even stream the archive: (also available one hour after airing)
http://132.216.18.132/128/mp3.20061121.20.30-21.00.m3u

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