Items tagged with Advocacy
AIDS leaders call on advocates to join together to fight AIDS and TB in Melbourne (post with simple image)
The 2014 International AIDS Conference in Melbourne concluded on 25th July with a renewed commitment by the AIDS community to unite efforts against AIDS and TB. Addressing the 14,000 delegates attending the conference during the opening ceremony, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé said “We cannot run away from the TB epidemic among people with HIV. All our efforts to keep people with HIV alive will be lost if they die from TB.”
Pharma companies in Ukraine raised their prices for medical products by up to 300% (post with simple image)
Patient and anticorruption organizations call on pharma companies not to sell medical products to Ukraine at the price of gold and decrease the prices instead to the level of the year 2013.
TBEC participates in the WHO National TB Programme Review for Armenia (post with simple image)
Recently, Oxana Rucsineanu, a member of the TB Europe Coalition Steering Committee, was invited to take part in the WHO Review of the National TB Programme for TB Control in Armenia. Oxana’s invite follows calls from civil society organisations towards the WHO to include a civil society or key affected voice in these NTP reviews. With her extensive experience both of TB itself and of the need to include the civil society voice in TB programmes, Oxana was well placed to take part in this visit to Armenia. Here Oxana shares some of her findings and recommendations from the visit.
TAG symposium: Zero Accountability: when action doesn't match the numbers (post with simple image)
2014 International Union Against TB and Lung Disease World Conference
Date: October 30, 2014
Time: 18h00 - 22h00
Location: Hotel Diagonal Zero Barcelona
MSF letter to Indian government - IP negotiations in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (post with simple image)
Ahead of the RCEP Ministerial Conference to be held in Myanmar on 27-28 August 2014, see letter from Medecins Sans Frontieres addressed to the Indian Minister of State for Commerce & Industry regarding the inclusion of intellectual property (IP) in the negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and its potential impact on access to affordable generic medicines from India.
Open letter to Janssen: Reducing the price of bedaquiline (post with simple image)
Several organizations and individuals working on TB appeal to Janssen to lower bedaquiline's price for all non-high-income countries.
TB CAB, TAG open letter to Janssen regarding the FDA approval of bedaquiline (post with simple image)
Determining a fair and affordable price of bedaquiline is essential for timely approval and appropriate domestic and global access to the best possible therapeutic options for people with DR-TB.
Janssen's response to open letter calling on the company to reduce the price of bedaquiline (post with simple image)
Several organizations and individuals working on TB appealed to Janssen to lower bedaquiline's price for all non-high-income countries.
Patients groups rally in Ukraine as government fails to conduct essential drug purchase tenders (post with simple image)
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian patients were left without drugs for treatment, when government did not manage to conduct tenders for 80% of drug purchases under the state health programmes, the joint press release from prominent patients organisations in Ukraine informs.
Two new activist guides on delamanid and linezolid (post with simple image)
Both guides describe what activists—including people with TB, researchers, and doctors who treat TB—can do to help ensure access, fair pricing, and further research.
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