COVID-19

Médecins du Monde challenges patents on COVID-19 vaccine

15 Jun 2022

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Médecins du Monde (MdM), a global medical humanitarian organization, has exposed Pfizer/BioNTechs’s patent abuse on the COVID-19 vaccine by challenging...

COVID Advocates Advisory Board meeting with Johnson & Johnson (J&J)/Janssen

31 Mar 2022

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Directly posted from CAAB Vax: Last November 15, a group of advocates working on vaccine access issues met with representatives...

Indonesia Issues Government Use Licenses for Remdesivir and Favipiravir

8 Dec 2021

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Make Medicines Affordable Campaign and ITPC welcome the Presidential Decrees issued in Indonesia for government use licenses on remdesivir and...

Art is Activism: Kenyan artists for Medicine Equality Now!

6 Dec 2021

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The SANAA CENTER Artist Collective in Mathare, Nairobi, Kenya has used graffiti, music, spoken word, poetry and dance to communicate...

Civil society raises awareness on molnupiravir overpricing in Thailand

20 Oct 2021

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MMA’s partner in Thailand, AIDS Access Foundation, along with six other civil society organizations, have sent a letter to the...

Brazilian House of Representatives approves bill to suspend patents: finally lives before profits?

9 Jul 2021

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Two months ago, the Brazilian Senate approved a law project bill (Law Project 12/21) that allows the country to expand...

Thailand’s opposition against Gilead’s patent application: overcharging what?

29 Jun 2021

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Earlier this month, Thai civil society opposed Gilead’s Sciences’ patent application on remdesivir, which has been trialled in the treatment...