March 11, 2021|Access to Medicines, COVID-19“People Over Profit” Rallies Push Pharmaceutical Companies to Commit to Equitable Global Vaccine DistributionActivists gathered across U.S. calling for lower-income countries ravaged by COVID-19 to get immediate access to lifesaving vaccines NEW YORK, N.Y. –– Today, activists gathered at rallies in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia as part…
February 26, 2021|Access to Medicines, COVID-19Hundreds of Prominent US Civil Society Organizations Call on Pres. Biden to Stop Blocking COVID-19 WTO Waiver to Boost Vaccines, Treatments WorldwideMSF, Oxfam, Partners In Health, Human Rights Watch, Public Citizen, MoveOn, Indivisible, Unions, Faith Groups, Citizens Trade Campaign, Health GAP, and More Urge U.S. Support for Waiver at March 1-2 WTO General Council WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. consumer, faith, health,…
February 24, 2021|Access to Medicines, COVID-19Biden’s USTR Must Stop Obstructing Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccines by Supporting the TRIPS Waiver Proposal Led by South Africa and IndiaOn the same day as a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Council on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Council) in Geneva, where the Biden administration was explicitly opposing a proposal from South Africa and India, with…
February 3, 2021|Access to Medicines, COVID-19As COVAX Falls Short, Biden Administration Continues to Block Efforts to Scale-Up Global COVID-19 Vaccine Supply As COVAX Falls Short, Biden Administration Continues to Block Efforts to Scale-up Global COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Biden Administration Must Break from Failed Trump Policies and Drop Opposition to South Africa-led Request to Expand Global Access to Vaccines As…
January 20, 2021|Access to Medicines, COVID-19Statement From Health GAP on the Biden Administration’s Day One Global Health ActionsMatthew Rose, Health GAP Director of U.S. Policy and Advocacy, said: “In this moment of global health crisis, it’s fitting that President Joseph R. Biden has made reengaging with the World Health Organization (WHO) one of his first acts as…
July 9, 2020|Access to Medicines, COVID-19Biden’s Commitment to Global Sharing of COVID-19 Vaccine Technology is a Step in the Right Direction, Must be Followed by Concrete Plans to Dismantle Dangerous Healthcare NationalismIn a conversation with healthcare activist Ady Barkan, Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for U.S. president, committed to sharing COVID-19 vaccine technologies and ensuring patents do not stand in the way of other countries accessing life-saving vaccines…
May 29, 2020|Access to Medicines, COVID-19Statement from Health GAP on today’s “Solidarity Call to Action” in support of the WHO COVID-19 Technology Access PoolWhen governments don’t stand up to Big Pharma, disaster ensues. Twenty years ago, millions of poor people in sub Saharan Africa were dying preventable deaths from AIDS because of pharma’s price gouging. International shame and pressure brought Big Pharma to…
May 21, 2020|Access to Medicines, COVID-19More Than 80 Academics, Researchers, and Teachers Call on President Ramaphosa to Fix the Patent LawsThe letter reproduced below was sent to President Cyril Ramaphosa on 19 May 2020 by more than 80 leading academics, researchers and teachers in South Africa. They urge the President to urgently reform South Africa’s patent laws and take further…
May 18, 2020|Access to Medicines, COVID-19South Africa’s patent laws threaten access to future COVID-19 medicinesContact: Lotti Rutter (Health GAP) | lotti@healthap.org | +27 82 065 5842 Ntsiki Mpulo (SECTION27) | mpulo@section27.org.za | +27 82 782 7143 Ngqabutho Mpofu (TAC) | ngqabutho.mpofu@tac.org.za | +27 72 225 9675 (Johannesburg) — In a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa…
May 4, 2020|Access to Medicines, COVID-19Funding Raised at Coronavirus Global Response Summit Must Come with “Strings Attached” to Ensure Access for AllAs a pledging conference for the World Health Organization’s Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator kicks off today during the Coronavirus Global Response Summit, hosted by the European Commission, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Norway and Saudi Arabia, activists called for…
