CAMPAIGNERS dressed as George Bush and Tony Blair were in St Andrews yesterday as part of a UK-wide roadshow organised by international development charity ActionAid and the St Andrews People and Planet student group.

ActionAid is sending a mock mobile pharmacy around the UK to draw attention to the need for Aids drugs in the developing world.

Converted from a 13-year-old ice-cream van, “George and Tony’s phoney pharmacy” is calling on world leaders to ensure that all people living with HIV and Aids can have medical treatment.

It is estimated that nine million people are in need of life saving Aids drugs in the developing world. Currently just 700,000 receive them.

ActionAid campaigner Jess Worth said yesterday that locals had been asked to sign a ‘prescription’—a petition demanding more money for Aids drugs—to be presented to the leaders of the G8 nations when they meet in Scotland in July.

“We want to send a clear message to Bush and Blair—enough of the empty promises, 2005 is the year to make Aids history.

“Leaders in rich countries keep saying they want to make a difference, but they don’t match their words with concrete action,” he said.