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Moroccan civil society calls for compulsory licence on Gilead’s possible COVID-19 drug
NewsOn 12 May 2020, Gilead Sciences announced voluntary licenses to five generic manufacturers in India and Pakistan allowing them to...
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Brazil and Thailand: Activists oppose more TB patents during COVID-19 pandemic
NewsBedaquiline (BDQ) is a core component of an ‘all-oral’ solution to multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB), and is recommended by the...
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Civil society asks WHO and Unitaid to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 technologies – and that commitment is binding
Call to action NewsIn an open letter, sent to Unitaid, the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Member States today, 86 civil society...
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Activists urge Eurasian states to order more affordable medicines, after HIV patent is dropped
Call to action NewsAbbVie has waived its patent rights for HIV drug, lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r), in many parts of the world, including for the...
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COVID-19 pandemic: ‘An opportunity of a lifetime’?
News Research The race is on to find an effective treatment and vaccine for COVID-19. Everyone hopes a solution will be...
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Global headlines: Potential COVID-19 drugs are over-priced
News ResearchFrom the front page of Le Monde, to the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera and others, research demonstrating that potential...
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Postponed: Global Summit on Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines
NewsThe 2020 summit will now take place at a later date, at a time when we are assured that international...
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Open letter: Prepare NOW for equitable access to COVID-19 treatments in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Call to action NewsOrganizations working on health and rights in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) region, have called on governments to...
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Possible treatments for COVID-19 could all be made for $1 a day, say researchers: Pharma must not profit from a pandemic and countries must ACT NOW.
Call to action News ResearchDrugs currently being used in COVID-19 treatment trials can all be mass-produced affordably, research from the University of Liverpool, published...
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Open letter: COVID-19 underlines the need for 37 World Trade Organization members to reverse a critical decision
Call to action NewsAs the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), we have signed an open letter asking 37 World Trade Organization members to...
