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Indonesian Advocates Challenge Big Pharma’s Patent of HIV Prevention and Treatment Lenacapavir
Indonesia AIDS Coalition (IAC), a community-based organization advocating on HIV-related issues, filed a post-grant opposition against the secondary (selection) patent...
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Why the World Can’t Trust Pharmaceutical Companies to Ensure Global Access to Essential Medicines
ITPC Global’s reaction to Gilead’s voluntary licence on lenacapravir: Gilead’s announcement of their voluntary license for lenacapavir—a groundbreaking, long-acting HIV...
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Patent Applications for HIV Prevention Drug Opposed in India: Vulnerable Group Seeks to Protect Generic Competition to Lower Prices of HIV Prevention Drug Lenacapavir
New Delhi, 18 September 2024 – The Indian Patent Office is set to hear the objections of Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust...
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HIV Community-Based Organizations are Fighting Patent Monopolies on Lenacapavir
Despite the world’s efforts, there have been over a million new cases of HIV each year. Lenacapavir (LEN), a long-acting...
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ITPC Sounds Alarm to Prevent Mpox Treatment Disparities as WHO Declares Global Health Emergency
July 15, 2024 — ITPC Global welcomes the World Health Organization’s (WHO) declaration of the current mpox upsurge as a Public...
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Ending the Epidemic Could Cost Under $40 (per person, per year) – treatment activists say at AIDS2024
Munich, 23 July 2024 – Despite global efforts to end HIV and AIDS, the epidemic has been persistent. In 2022,...
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Activists at AIDS2024 called on ViiV Healthcare to drop their case in Colombia against Compulsory License on Dolutegravir
On the 24th of July, hundreds of treatment advocates attending AIDS2024 in Munich protested against the companies with “Drop The...
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TBPeople: fighting for affordable medicines in Georgia
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Activists block big pharma patent on COVID-19 pill in Russia, but fight not over
Russia’s patent office made a ground-breaking decision to reject a patent application for molnupiravir, a treatment for COVID-19, which was...
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The Rejection of the Bedaquiline Patent Opposition in Indonesia Raises the Risk of Difficulty in Accessing Optimal TB Therapy
The Indonesia AIDS Coalition (IAC) and Indonesia for Global Justice (IGJ) have filed a patent opposition for the Tuberculosis (TB)...
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World Community Advisory Board 2023
ITPC organized a World Community Advisory Board Meeting (WCAB) which took place from November 29th to December 1st, in Amsterdam,...
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Brazilian Community-Based Organization ABIA Bids to Expand HIV Treatment Access by Overriding the Patent on Dolutegravir
The Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA), an advocacy group in Rio de Janeiro, has called on the Ministry of Health...