"Paying for your Drugs: Are you getting what you're entitled to"
Drug funding
An AIDS ACTION NOW! leaflet that discusses Ontario Drug Benefits - what it is and why it doesn't work.
AIDS ACTION NOW!
April 1995
Glen Brown
AIDS ACTION NOW! report on the Trillium Drug plan
Trillium
An AIDS ACTION NOW! report on the Trillium Drug Plan, arguing that it will "significantly improve access to the therapies needed by people with HIV and AIDS" but there are "several problems" that must be resolved.
AIDS ACTION NOW!
Glen Brown
"Rae & Co's kids' stuff"
Bob Rae
A newspaper column by Christina Blizzard offering commentary on Bob Rae's announcement of Trillium.
Glen Brown
Trillium Correspondence (1)
Drug Benefits
A fax sent from the Province of Ontario to AIDS ACTION NOW! regarding drug benefits. Lists the AIDS-related drugs covered by the Ontario Drug Benefit Program.
Province of Ontario.
July 1994
Glen Brown
Trillium Correspondence (2)
Drug Benefits
A fax template to be sent by People Living With HIV/AIDS to Ruth Grier, Ontario's Minister of Health requested that a list of drugs be listed to the Ontario Drug Benefits list.
AIDS ACTION NOW!
March 15, 1995
Glen Brown
Trillium Correspondence (3)
Drug benefits
A fact from Dave Grant, Positive Approaches Coordinator with the AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and Area (ACCKWA), to all OAN member groups expressing concern about the number of treatments that will not be covered under the plan.
Dave Grant, AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and Area (ACCKWA),
March 24
Glen Brown
Trillium Correspondence (4)
Drug Benefits
Fax from Bob Gardner at Legislative Research Service to Glen Brown, which includes a AIDS ACTION NOW! document on drug benefits - "Are you getting what you're entitled to?"
Glen Brown
April 3, 1995
Glen Brown
Trillium Correspondence (5)
Drug Benefits
A flyer faxed from AIDS ACTION NOW! entitled "Paying for your drugs - Are you getting what you're entitled to?"
AIDS ACTION NOW!
April 3, 1995
Glen Brown
Trillium Correspondence (6)
Drug Benefits
Handwritten notes discussing Ontario drug benefits.
Glen Brown
March 13, 1995
Glen Brown
Trillium Correspondence (7)
Drug Benefits
Notes from an AIDS ACTION NOW! meeting discussing Ontario Drug Benefits and the "Catastrophic Drug Plan".
Glen Brown
April 5
Glen Brown
Trillium Correspondence (8)
Drug Benefits
Further handwritten correspondence regarding drug benefits in Ontario.
Glen Brown
Glen Brown
Trillium Correspondence (9)
Drug benefits
A letter to AIDS ACTION NOW! from the Ministry of Health, requesting a representative from AIDS ACTION NOW! attend the unveiling of the Trillium plan.
Mary Catherine Lindberg, Assistance Deputy Minister
December 28, 1994
Glen Brown
Trillium Correspondence (10)
Drug Benefits
Letter to AIDS ACTION NOW! from Director of the Drug Programs Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Health providing details of the Trillium Drug Program.
Theresa Firestone, Direct, Drug Programs Branch, Ontario Ministry of Health
March 1, 1995
Glen Brown
Trillium Correspondence (11)
Drug Benefits
Letter to Premier Bob Rae introducing AIDS ACTION NOW! and requesting a drug benefit plan.
Mark Freamo, Co-Chair, AIDS ACTION NOW!
December 14, 1994
Glen Brown
News Release - Province of Ontario - "New Program helps People with Excessive Drug Expenses"
Drug benefits
A press release from the Province of Ontario on the Trillium drug plan.
Province of Ontario
February 1, 1995
Glen Brown
News clippings on Trillium (1)
Drug benefits
A couple of newspaper articles on the introduction of the Trillium drug plan.
Toronto Star
December 4, 1994
Glen Brown
News clippings on Trillium (2)
Drug benefits
A second set of articles on the Trillium drug plan. This set highlights the role activists in pressing for it.
Toronto Star, Globe and Mail
March 1994
Glen Brown
Notes for Press Conference
Drug benefits
Notes for a Press Conference on the Ontario needs assessment, calling for an adequate drug benefits program.
AIDS ACTION NOW!
March 7. 1994
Glen Brown
Ontario Drug Benefit Coverage of HIV-Related Drugs
Drug Benefits
Includes a memo from a doctor and a list of drugs included in the formulary.
Glen Brown
Meeting Agenda - Ontario's New Drug Benefit Program
Drug Benefits
An agenda for a meeting to discuss Ontario's new Drug Benefit Program.
January 9, 1995
Glen Brown