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Treatment activists – here’s your campaign toolkit!
Intellectual property on essential medicines, vaccines and other health technologies affects us all. Where you live directly impacts on the...
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Editorial corrections: Pfizer’s NYT advert
Pfizer made 9.6 billion in net profit last year alone – 2021 is set to be an even more lucrative...
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Summit for Vaccine Internationalism
At present rates, it will take 57 years to vaccinate the world against COVID-19. That is why Progressive International is...
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Moving too slowly, and committing too little: Our statement on the G7 and WTO meetings
Last week, World Trade Organization (WTO) members and the G7 both held meetings. Discussions included possible solutions on how to...
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Medicine Equality Now! A fight for survival
World Trade Organization (WTO) members have, so far, had over eight months to back the TRIPS waiver, first proposed by...
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Kenyan artists for Medicine Equality Now!
This Sunday, performances created and directed by an artist collective in Nairobi, Kenya will raise awareness of the need for...
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From ally to active partner: Indonesia 62nd country to co-sponsor the TRIPS waiver
There is rapidly growing support for the TRIPS waiver – a proposal first tabled by India and South Africa –...
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Crossing the frontline to reach prisoners with HIV treatment in Russian-occupied Ukraine
In the seven years since Russia invaded Valeria’s home city, she lost her home, her husband, and her idea of...
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Thailand rejects Fujifilm’s COVID-19 related patent request
This development is a significant success for civil society which has been urging the Department of Intellectual Property to take...
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US support for waiving IP protections on COVID-19 vaccines: “Extraordinary circumstances call for extraordinary measures”
A statement released 5 May 2021, from the United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai, announced the Biden-Harris Administration’s support for...
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Plotting history: TheBodyPro interview on documenting COVID-19
TheBodyPro interviewed Tracy Swan, activist and Make Medicines Affordable consultant, on how the COVID-19 timeline came about during the pandemic....
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Brazilian Senate votes to suspend patents during pandemic
Treatment activists are celebrating after the Brazilian Senate took a historic step to remove barriers that prevent access to essential...
