Activists Across the World Demand Urgent Action to Improve Access to Lifesaving Tuberculosis (TB) Medicine, Bedaquiline
Call to action Medicine Equality Now! Public StatementJuly 1, 2022 – A new generic version of bedaquiline produced by Macleods Pharmaceuticals in India has cleared the Global...
Médecins du Monde challenges patents on COVID-19 vaccine
Medicine Equality Now! NewsMédecins du Monde (MdM), a global medical humanitarian organization, has exposed Pfizer/BioNTechs’s patent abuse on the COVID-19 vaccine by challenging...
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COVID-19 – entering year three of normalizing profit over life
Medicine Equality Now! OpinionMarch 2022 marked the beginning of the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The status quo hasn’t changed: as pharmaceutical...
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COVID Advocates Advisory Board meeting with Johnson & Johnson (J&J)/Janssen
Medicine Equality Now! NewsDirectly posted from CAAB Vax: Last November 15, a group of advocates working on vaccine access issues met with representatives...
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TNP+ demands that Thailand’s Minister of Health “unlock” Hepatitis C treatment
Medicine Equality Now! NewsOn 7 February 2022, during Thailand’s National Health Security Board meeting, a representative from the Thai Network of People Living...
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Fighting for access to better TB drugs in Thailand
Medicine Equality Now! NewsThailand is classified by the World Health Organisation as a tuberculosis (TB) /HIV high-burden country, including MDR-TB. It is estimated...
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Ukraine fights for affordable access to a life-saving COVID-19 treatment
Medicine Equality Now! News100% Life, MMA’s partner in Ukraine, has opposed a patent on tocilizumab, a monoclonal antibody that blocks interleukin-6, an inflammatory...
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Indonesia Issues Government Use Licenses for Remdesivir and Favipiravir
Medicine Equality Now! NewsMake Medicines Affordable Campaign and ITPC welcome the Presidential Decrees issued in Indonesia for government use licenses on remdesivir and...
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Bolsonaro and the Pharmaceutical Industry Are United Against Access to Medicines in Brazil
Call to action Medicine Equality Now! News OpinionA new chapter of Bolsonaro’s deliberate strategy to spread the coronavirus has begun. This time, his government is partnering with...
Art is Activism: Kenyan artists for Medicine Equality Now!
Medicine Equality Now! News VideoThe SANAA CENTER Artist Collective in Mathare, Nairobi, Kenya has used graffiti, music, spoken word, poetry and dance to communicate...
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