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Patent-free, low-cost vaccines highly protective against severe COVID

1 Mar 2023

Medicine Equality Now! News Press release Research

A new analysis of 390,459 participants assessing 14 different COVID-19 vaccines has identified no significant difference in efficacy against both symptomatic and severe...

Moving too slowly, and committing too little: Our statement on the G7 and WTO meetings

16 Jun 2021

News Press release

Last week, World Trade Organization (WTO) members and the G7 both held meetings. Discussions included possible solutions on how to...

Civil society files lawsuit against Thai Department of Intellectual Property as “failure to reject TB patent is unlawful”

5 Feb 2021

News Press release

Translated from the original press release published in Thai, by The Standard and Prachathai. On 2 February 2021, a civil...

Breakthrough success as reformed patent law enters into force in Ukraine

21 Aug 2020

News Press release

Ukraine’s reformed patent law provides a framework to prevent unlawful patents and monopolies on essential drugs, which have restricted access...

Morocco: Parliament urged to ensure access to future COVID-19 treatment and vaccines

29 Jul 2020

Call to action News Press release

This week, civil society in Morocco has called for the urgent removal of unnecessary legal barriers, which are “tailor-made for...

Letter to ViiV Healthcare: No more time to waste – increase access to dolutegravir in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

9 Jul 2020

News Press release

Dolutegravir is an essential drug in HIV treatment, recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Despite the drug being approved...

New data: Treat HIV for just four weeks of global pharmaceutical sales

9 Jul 2020

News Press release

The Make Medicines Affordable campaign is calling for a widespread switch from patented to generic HIV drugs so that at...