Past campaign activities
Global AIDS Week of Action 2007
The Global AIDS Week of Action (20-27 May 2007) was an opportunity for campaigners around the world to unite in calling for a stronger response to the global AIDS crisis. ActionAid UK marked the launch of the 2007 Global AIDS Week, by delivering a special book to No 10 Downing Street.
Target Brown 2007
Almost 7,000 ActionAid campaigners bombarded UK Chancellor Gordon Brown with emails, postcards and letters before the G8 Finance Ministers' Meeting, which took place in Germany in February.
Parliamentary Event 2006
As part of the Global Week of Action on AIDS, ActionAid helped to organise a major Stop AIDS Campaign event in Parliament supporting AIDS Treatment for all by 2010. Andrew Mitchell, (Conservative Shadow Secretary), Baroness Northover (LibDem spokesperson) and Neil Gerrard MP (Chair of the AIDS Group), spoke alongside activists from the South and MPs were given the chance to add their eyes to our online petition.
Get On Record 2006
The ActionAid Space team travelled around music festivals throughout the summer encouraging thousands of people to send a photo message to their MP. The messages called on MPs to get 'On Record' in support of our campaign for HIV and AIDS treatment for all by 2010. Over 500 MPs have now received photo messages from people living in their constituencies, and many have written to Gordon Brown about our campaign.
Global Fund Replenishment Conference September 2005
The pledge made at the G8 Summit 2005 to ensure universal access to treatment by 2010 will only become a reality with adequate funding. Campaigners from ActionAid, as part of the Stop AIDS Campaign, were out in force to watch the delegates' every move. Despite our efforts, the result of the conference was a major disappointment, although the UK did double its pledge.
World Aids Day 2005
On World AIDS Day - December 1, politicians got the distinct feeling they were being watched when a Routemaster bus covered with campaigners' eyes arrived on their doorstep. It was boarded by Tony Blair, Hilary Benn, and over 80 MPs at the House of Commons, all the European Development Ministers, the South African and Indian Embassy representatives, and other key politicians.
Read more and watch our campaigner lobbying Tony Blair on the bus
G8 Summit 2005
During the 2005 G8 summit, as part of the Stop AIDS Campaign, we went 'eyeball to eyeball' with the G8 leaders. Surrounded by over 100 enormous cardboard eyeballs, we trained a giant sized telescope towards Gleneagles reminding the G8 leaders that the world was watching and waiting for them to 'Make AIDS History', and deliver on the promises of the G8 Finance Ministers and commit to AIDS treatment for all by 2010. All our hard work paid off as in response to our campaigning the G8 leaders did indeed commit to ensuring access to AIDS treatment for everyone who needs it by 2010!
Phoney Pharmacy 2004
On World AIDS Day 2004, ActionAid launched 'George and Tony's Phoney Pharmacy' in London's Trafalgar Square. This mock 'pharmacy', an old ice-cream van redesigned by student activists, travelled across Britain, visiting universities and town centres, to call for global action on access to antiretroviral therapy for people in poor countries.
Empty promises 2004
ActionAid supporters were asked to put their signature on an empty medicine bottle to deliver to Downing street. Thousands of you did - one of the highest response rates we have ever had and these were taken down to the Prime Minister's office on the eve of the 2004 G8 summit. They called on the Prime Minister to make sure that the G8 would support the international target to get 3 million people onto treatments by the end of 2005.
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