News items related to: Medicine Equality Now!
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COVID-19 – entering year three of normalizing profit over life
March 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
Directly 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
On 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
Thailand 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
100% 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
Make 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
A new chapter of Bolsonaro’s deliberate strategy to spread the coronavirus has begun. This time, his government is partnering with...
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Art is Activism: Kenyan artists for Medicine Equality Now!
The SANAA CENTER Artist Collective in Mathare, Nairobi, Kenya has used graffiti, music, spoken word, poetry and dance to communicate...
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The only sustainable future is one where everyone has access to affordable optimal treatment
________________________________________ Baktygul Israilova, 48, was diagnosed with HIV more than 10 years ago, when she was pregnant with her second...
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Botswana stories: information is essential in the battle against stigma
The second interview in Botswana was with Theo Keborate, who is 22 years old now. She was diagnosed with HIV...
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Botswana: treatment activists and their ongoing battle for access to healthcare
BONELA (The Botswana Network on Ethics Law and HIV/AIDS) is an NGO seeks to integrate a human rights approach to...
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Moldovan patients and CSOs stood against the patent monopoly on bedaquiline
In 2019, 1.4 million people died from tuberculosis (TB) – which is the leading cause of death among people living...
