About
The goal of UAEM Manitoba is to add the University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, Canada, to the group of universities that are members of UAEM.
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) is a group composed of students, faculty, and researchers at numerous member universities in the US, the UK, and Canada, who are dedicated to increasing access to medicines, especially for those who cannot afford life-saving therapy such as HIV/AIDS drugs.
Multiple barriers to access exist: high prices, lack of infrastructure, lack of political will, and insufficient funding of treatment programs. This "systematic inability of individuals in developing countries to obtain existing medicines," is known as "the access gap." A related obstruction to effective treatment of diseases prevalent in developing countries is the 9/10 "research gap," describing the fact that 90% of research funds go towards 10% of the world's disease burden, leaving diseases that primarily impact the global poor massively underfunded. UAEM has been formulating and advocating potential solutions that can help close both of these devastating gaps.
