November 7, 2020|COVID-19, Health JusticeStatement on the Election of Joseph R. Biden, Jr. as U.S. President and Kamala Harris as Vice PresidentJoe Biden and Kamala Harris have been elected to lead the United States at a moment of crisis. Since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, America’s worst tendencies domestically and globally have been not just exposed, but thrust into primetime and…
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…
July 6, 2020|COVID-19, Health JusticeThis Was Preventable: COVID-19 Collides with Unmet Global AIDS Goals, Creating New Crisis for HIV Positive Adults and ChildrenActivists call for $1.2 billion in increased PEPFAR funding to mitigate life-threatening COVID-19 harms and to accelerate HIV treatment and prevention scale up New global AIDS data published by UNAIDS on the opening day of the 2020 International AIDS Conference indicate…
June 15, 2020|COVID-19, Health JusticeWith COVID-19 Pandemic Accelerating in Africa, Activists Demand Full Reversal of Trump Administration Ban on PPE Purchases for Front-line Healthcare WorkersPlaying Politics with the Coronavirus Response is Costing Lives as New Data Indicate People Living with HIV and TB are at Increased Risk of Dying from COVID-19 As the coronavirus pandemic accelerates exponentially in Africa, the Trump administration’s arbitrary and…
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…
