The Coalition aims to maximize the involvement of people living with HIV and their advocates in the decision-making processes that affect their lives – at the international, regional, national and local levels.
ITPC EECA and partner organizations in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Moldova and Uzbekistan have substantial IP capacity. They have been involved since the birth of the Make Medicines Affordable campaign; opposing patents, preparing market analysis and IP legislation monitoring, developing proposals for improving the regulatory framework, and reducing prices for target drugs.
Their achievements over the past years include two compulsory licenses for remdesivir in Russia, first civil society patent oppositions in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, and the first opposition to a Eurasian patent in Kyrgyzstan.