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News - Page 13 of 29
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New money for old drugs: COVID-19 is not a profit-making opportunity
To try to limit the catastrophic impact of COVID-19, a huge amount of funding has been invested into scientific development...
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Thai civil society opposes patent on an influenza drug, now used for COVID-19
Favipiravir, originally approved as an influenza drug, is being used to treat COVID-19 patients with pneumonia, alongside anti-malarial and anti-retroviral...
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Morocco: Parliament urged to ensure access to future COVID-19 treatment and vaccines
This week, civil society in Morocco has called for the urgent removal of unnecessary legal barriers, which are “tailor-made for...
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Russian NGOs oppose Gilead’s patent for HIV drug, Truvada
Humanitarian Action with technical support from ITPCru has opposed Gilead’s patent in Russia for the combination of two antiretroviral drugs,...
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Danylo: Positive attitudes start with teaching – and effective HIV treatment
Danylo (name changed), 18, shares information about HIV with his university friends in Cherkassy, Ukraine. For example, “that HIV is...
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Letter to ViiV Healthcare: No more time to waste – increase access to dolutegravir in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Dolutegravir is an essential drug in HIV treatment, recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Despite the drug being approved...
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Vera: HIV targets won’t be met without gender equality and accessible treatment
On the day that new research is published, showing that countries are being overcharged by $34 billion a year for HIV drugs, Vera Varyga,...
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New data: Treat HIV for just four weeks of global pharmaceutical sales
The Make Medicines Affordable campaign is calling for a widespread switch from patented to generic HIV drugs so that at...
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AIDS 2020 leadership workshop: Strategies for lowering drug prices
Activists, policy-makers, researchers and healthcare providers joined a leadership workshop led by ITPC’s Make Medicines Affordable campaign at AIDS 2020...
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COVID-19: Another of Gilead’s FIVE patent applications on remdesivir is opposed in Argentina
Our campaign partner, Fundación GEP, has filed a second patent opposition against one of Gilead’s numerous patent applications for the...
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AIDS 2020 exhibition: Love, life and riots
We’re exhibiting at #AIDS2020Virtual, the world’s largest virtual AIDS conference. Our photo exhibition Love, Life and Riots will be on...
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What’s on: AIDS 2020 Virtual for treatment activists
Kicking off on Monday 6 July, with a workshop on innovative strategies to reduce prohibitive drug prices, we’ve compiled some...