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Same Meds, New Patents: What Do Activists Need to Know About Long-Acting Formulations?
Long-Acting Formulations (LAFs) have the potential to make treatment for hepatitis C (HCV) and tuberculosis (TB) easier to adhere to,...
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COVID-19 – entering year three of normalizing profit over life
March 2022 marked the beginning of the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The status quo hasn’t changed: as pharmaceutical...
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COVID Advocates Advisory Board meeting with Johnson & Johnson (J&J)/Janssen
Directly posted from CAAB Vax: Last November 15, a group of advocates working on vaccine access issues met with representatives...
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TNP+ demands that Thailand’s Minister of Health “unlock” Hepatitis C treatment
On 7 February 2022, during Thailand’s National Health Security Board meeting, a representative from the Thai Network of People Living...
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Fighting for access to better TB drugs in Thailand
Thailand 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
100% 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
Network 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
Make 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
A 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!
The 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
The 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
Answer Foundation and Antihepatitis C Foundation, MMA’s partners in Kazakhstan, with technical support from ITPC-Ru, recently launched a comprehensive Annual...
