Global: Free trade deals, drug patents derail AIDS fight

As the nineteenth International AIDS Conference continued in Washington, thousands of protesters marched on the White House with a set of demands to end the epidemic. At the forefront were calls for an end to free trade deals that protesters argue make vital AIDS medicines unaffordable. The march comprised a coalition of AIDS advocacy and activist groups organised under the mantra 'We Can End AIDS', and ended with a dramatic display when activists gathered symbols of the fight against AIDS – pill bottles and money – tied them with red ribbons, and threw them in front of the White House.