News items related to: COVID-19
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Activists block big pharma patent on COVID-19 pill in Russia, but fight not over
Russia’s patent office made a ground-breaking decision to reject a patent application for molnupiravir, a treatment for COVID-19, which was...
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World Community Advisory Board 2023
ITPC organized a World Community Advisory Board Meeting (WCAB) which took place from November 29th to December 1st, in Amsterdam,...
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People’s Resolution: A Roadmap to Protect the Right to Life in a Failed Multilateral Order
We, as members of communities, civil society and activists affected by epidemics, call for a plan of action to end...
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FGEP Files Pre-Grant Patent Opposition for Covid Vaccine Against Pfizer
Fundación Grupo Efecto Positivo (FGEP) has filed a pre-grant patent opposition in a bid to make COVID-19 vaccines accessible and...
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Activists File Patent Opposition to Challenge COVID-19 Drug Monopoly on Baricitinib
Activists from Morocco, Thailand, and Vietnam have filed patent oppositions to challenge drug manufacturers Incyte and Eli Lilly over the...
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The pandemic is declared finished, but the fight for access never stops
MMA consortium members from Argentina, Brazil, Thailand and EECA region, took action to secure access to molnupiravir. In Argentina, the...
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Paxlovid in the post pandemic world
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently declared that COVID-19 is “…now an established and ongoing health issue which no longer...
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Médecins du Monde challenges patents on COVID-19 vaccine
Médecins du Monde (MdM), a global medical humanitarian organization, has exposed Pfizer/BioNTechs’s patent abuse on the COVID-19 vaccine by challenging...
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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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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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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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Civil society raises awareness on molnupiravir overpricing in Thailand
MMA’s partner in Thailand, AIDS Access Foundation, along with six other civil society organizations, have sent a letter to the...
