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Interview: Patents, parenting, and putting people’s rights first
Dima Sherembey, 44, was one of the first 100 people to receive HIV treatment in Ukraine, back in 2002. As...
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World Health Day petition: No profit on pandemic!
Nine out of 10 people in low and middle income countries won’t have access to a COVID-19 vaccine in 2021....
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World TB Day 2021: End patents, end TB
The world has the science, targets and a plan to eliminate tuberculosis (TB). However, Johnson & Johnson, the patent holder...
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Photo gallery: World TB Day 2021
The latest figures, from 2019, revealed that 10 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) worldwide in one year, and...
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New resource: COVID-19 timeline
Today, one year after the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared COVID-19 as a pandemic (11 March 2020), we launch...
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Why all WTO members should back the TRIPS waiver proposal
There is evidence to show that an equitable roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines globally would dramatically reduce the loss of life....
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GALLERY: International Women’s Day 2021
Around this time last year, before many countries went into their first COVID-19 related lockdown, Make Medicines Affordable met with...
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‘Held to ransom’: Pfizer demands governments gamble with state assets to secure vaccine deal
Pfizer has been accused of “bullying” Latin American governments in COVID-19 vaccine negotiations and has asked some countries to put...
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The next COVID-19 crisis: A vaccine apartheid endangering us all
The West bought billions of vaccines fast and cheap, leaving poorer nations waiting longer and paying more. Published by The...
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Civil society files lawsuit against Thai Department of Intellectual Property as “failure to reject TB patent is unlawful”
Translated from the original press release published in Thai, by The Standard and Prachathai. On 2 February 2021, a civil...
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“No more delay – reject patent request for potential COVID-19 drug” urges Thai civil society
Japanese company Fujifilm-Toyama has filed for patents on favipiravir in Thailand. Favipiravir is an antiviral drug which has been used...
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Pan-genotypic Hep-C drug added to Thai health system
The first pan-genotypic Hepatitis C drug, which can be prescribed without the requirement for expensive and limited testing to determine...