J & J’s Deal With the Global Drug Facility Disguises the Continued Issue with Access to Bedaquiline to Treat Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Call to action Medicine Equality Now! News“This deal is big step backwards for global public health – it allows J & J to keep selling higher-priced...
The pandemic is declared finished, but the fight for access never stops
Medicine Equality Now! NewsMMA consortium members from Argentina, Brazil, Thailand and EECA region, took action to secure access to molnupiravir. In Argentina, the...
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Being ahead of the curve: access to Delamanid in Thailand
Medicine Equality Now! NewsMMA’s consortium partner, the Thai Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (TNP+), has filed a third-party observation on a patent...
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Civil Society Organizations in Brazil fight for better access to Dolutegravir
Medicine Equality Now! NewsBrazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA), along with the Working Group on Intellectual Property (GTPI) of the Brazilian Network for the...
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Paxlovid in the post pandemic world
Medicine Equality Now! NewsThe World Health Organization (WHO) recently declared that COVID-19 is “…now an established and ongoing health issue which no longer...
Patent-free, low-cost vaccines highly protective against severe COVID
Medicine Equality Now! News Press release ResearchA new analysis of 390,459 participants assessing 14 different COVID-19 vaccines has identified no significant difference in efficacy against both symptomatic and severe...
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TNP+ opposes patent claims on Lenacapavir
Medicine Equality Now! NewsTNP+, MMA’s partner in Thailand, has filled an opposition against Markush patent claims on lenacapavir, a new, long-acting antiretroviral drug,...
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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