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Fighting for access to better TB drugs in Thailand
Medicine Equality Now! NewsThailand 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
Medicine Equality Now! News100% 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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Georgia’s civil society opposes patents for HIV medicines
NewsNetwork TBPeople, MMA’s partner in Georgia, has made progress in the fight against patent monopolies for life-saving drugs. Image ©...
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Indonesia Issues Government Use Licenses for Remdesivir and Favipiravir
Medicine Equality Now! NewsMake 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
Call to action Medicine Equality Now! News OpinionA 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!
Medicine Equality Now! News VideoThe SANAA CENTER Artist Collective in Mathare, Nairobi, Kenya has used graffiti, music, spoken word, poetry and dance to communicate...
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MMA and ITPC’s 3rd POA: building capacity to challenge low quality patents
NewsThe Academies aim to provide practical training and capacity building for civil society groups and activists in challenging pharmaceutical patents...
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MMA’s partners in Kazakhstan call for systemic changes to the country’s intellectual property and access to medicines framework in their annual report
News ResearchAnswer Foundation and Antihepatitis C Foundation, MMA’s partners in Kazakhstan, with technical support from ITPC-Ru, recently launched a comprehensive Annual...
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ITPC-LATCA filed an application for nullity of Doravirine’s patent in Honduras
NewsITPC-LATCA is the hub forLatin America and the Caribbean of the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC). According to the latest...
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MPP-Merck Molnupiravir License Reveals the Limits of Voluntary Measures During a Pandemic
News Public StatementOn 27th October 2021, Merck Sharpe Dohme (MSD) and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) announced a voluntary licensing agreement covering...
