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NOW ONLINE: The 2024 Access to Medicine Index #ATMI24 provides an in-depth analysis of what the #pharma industry is doing to bridge the gap in equitable access➡accesstomedicinefoundation.org/news/pharma-co… #access2meds @FCDOGovUK @DutchMFA @gatesfoundation @HelmsleyTrust @wellcometrust @si_sfg @AXAIM
📢 Join us for the #MedsPaL Webinar! 📢 🙌🏽 Excited to unveil the enhanced MedsPaL interface in a 1️⃣ hour Zoom webinar 💻. Discover new features, functionalities, and design improvements 🚀. 🤓 MedsPaL provides crucial info on the IP status of patented essential medicines,…
South Africa is facing a severe shortage of insulin pens, which are critical for people living with #diabetes. Why? @NovoNordisk, the corporation that makes them & is the South Africa govt’s main supplier said they will no longer produce human insulin pens!
Today on #WorldDiabetesDay, we’re at @NovoNordisk offices in Johannesburg w/ a message: 📢Resume the supply of insulin pens in South Africa AND 📢DROP THE PRICE to $1/pen so ALL people living w/ #diabetes can manage their treatment. Insulin pens shouldn’t be a luxury!
More than 70 TB activists from around the world called on @DanaherCorp and @CepheidNews at the @UnionConference to make all GeneXpert cartridges affordable for all and also to open their books and share the audit.
Hey @NovoNordisk, don’t be two-faced! Do not choose profits over the lives of countless people in low- & middle-income countries who depend on insulin pens to manage their #diabetes. Make insulin pens AVAILABLE & AFFORDABLE for all! Put #PeopleOverProfits
Forty years ago, as lawmakers were crafting the Hatch-Waxman Act, the pharmaceutical industry and its lobbyists were doing everything they could to kill the bill. When they recognized they couldn’t, they began lobbying Congress to weaken it. In the end, the industry successfully…
As @Public_Citizen's Steve Knievel explains, patent abuse thrives in a system that allows bad patents to be granted. "We need to improve our standards and prevent [bad patents] from being granted in the first place."
I spoke to @RemaNagarajan @timesofindia about drug cost transparency and the ongoing legal fight to win affordable, sustainable access to #risdiplam in India. Unabridged interview here: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-ti…
.@Public_Citizen examined lobbying activity on the TRIPS waiver between 2021-2024. More than 500 lobbyists were hired to lobby the waiver. Of them, 90% were hired by entities opposed to the waiver, incl. @USChamber, @PhRMA, @pfizer, and @Novartis 🔗citizen.org/article/indust…
📺 Student and @UAEM member CJ Cole explains how branded drug companies build “patent thickets”—legal webs of frivolous patents that block and delay competitors from entering the market, thereby enabling the branded drug company to extend its ability to charge higher prices to…
Lenacapavir, an injection every 6 months, could be a breakthrough for HIV. Questions remain about its price tag & the legitimacy of its patents. Hear from activists from across regions on the ethical & political issues of the lack of access. 💻 Register us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
The new draft of the @WHO #PandemicAgreement has progressed, but the language in several key equity-related provisions is weak & insufficient. This briefing document analyses the current text & makes recommendations to address these shortcomings. msfaccess.org/pandemic-agree…
Interesting piece on #tuberculosis💊drug research, but big issues left untouched: -#UBC has track record of not walking the walk on global access - Key existing drugs for DR-TB not available in Canada -🇨🇦still lags behind on access & benefit-sharing (ABS) for Indigenous knowledge
Researchers at the University of British Columbia are using a North American wildflower called bloodroot — long used by First Nations in traditional medicine — to fight drug-resistant tuberculosis. thetyee.ca/News/2024/10/2…
@MSF_canada has been calling on🇨🇦Canada to use the BMC to make products that the for-profit industry isn't supplying for use during global public health emergencies, and make them available to countries & humanitarian organizations free of charge or on a cost-recovery basis.
Three years and waiting for Canada's made-in-Montreal #COVID19 shot. A December deadline looms with no vaccine deliveries in sight and questions swirling about the $130-million plant owned by the federal government, by @JacobSerebrin montrealgazette.com/news/local-new… via @mtlgazette
What's new in #GlobalHealth R&D? 🦟Noninvasive #malaria test 💉#Mpox vaccine trial for kids 🧫Novel class of antimicrobial agents
At $65 per dose, @BavarianNordic's mpox shot is one of the most expensive vaccines @UNICEF buys for lower-income countries We're standing with @Public_Citizen and allies calling on the company to lower prices, increase production, and share vaccine tech💉 citizen.org/article/letter…
1.25 million people died of a CURABLE disease LAST YEAR. We’re not waiting on technological advancements to allow us to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent tuberculosis. We’ve already done that step. We just need to get it to the people who need it. #TimeFor5
1.25 million lives lost to tuberculosis last year, and the threat of antimicrobial resistance is only growing. Every life lost is preventable. Let’s prioritize TB as a global health emergency. Read the @WHO's full report 👉who.int/teams/global-t… #YesWeCanEndTB
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