June 17, 2022|Access to Medicines, COVID-19Statement from Asia Russell, Health GAP Executive Director, on the Failure of the WTO’s MC12 to Deliver a TRIPS Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines, Treatments, and Tests“The World Trade Organization’s 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) was a dismal failure for the 85% of people in low-income countries that have not had a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine, for the billions of people worldwide without access to COVID-19…
April 20, 2022|Access to Medicines, COVID-19109 Civil Society Organizations Call on Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader to Support Compulsory License to Expand Access and Break Pfizer’s Monopoly Over Lifesaving COVID-19 TreatmentDecision Expected Any Day in Landmark Case Filed by KEI Could Set Precedent Across Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Determine Trajectory of Access to Essential COVID-19 Treatments Pfizer Brazenly Claimed its “Human Rights” in Pushback Against Effort to Utilize Existing Public…
March 17, 2022|Access to Medicines, COVID-19Nearly 100 Health, Development and Human Rights Groups Write Pfizer CEO Demanding Immediate Action to Increase Access to COVID-19 Antivirals in Low- and Middle-Income CountriesPfizer COVID-19 Treatment Licensing Deal with Medicines Patent Pool Excludes Almost 50% of the Globe Perpetuating Medical Apartheid Nearly 100 health, development, and human rights organizations sent a letter today to Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla demanding immediate steps to increase access to COVID-19…
November 17, 2021|Access to Medicines, COVID-19Statement on the Biden Administration Plan to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing CapacityAsia Russell, Health GAP Executive Director, said: “This is a dire global health emergency, and instead of using their power to compel pharma companies to share know-how to build capacity and rapidly expand vaccine manufacturing around the world, the Biden…
July 21, 2021|Access to Medicines, COVID-19Pfizer-BioNTech Fill and Finish Deal with Biovac in South Africa Is the Latest Step in Pharma’s Campaign to Convince the World the Status Quo is Good EnoughStatement from Brook Baker, Senior Policy Analyst, Health GAP, regarding the COVID-19 vaccine agreement announced today between Pfizer, BioNTech, and Biovac: “This is a far cry from actual technology transfer to allow independent manufacture of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics in…
June 3, 2021|Access to Medicines, COVID-19March & Vigil Calling for Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccines Held at Western Countries’ UN Missions in New York City Free the Vaccine Activists Remember Those Around the World Lost to COVID-19, and Called for Rich Nations to #EndVaccineApartheid via WTO TRIPS Waiver (New York, NY) — Dozens of New York activists gathered this evening outside Pfizer World Headquarters…
May 5, 2021|Access to Medicines, COVID-19Statement in Response to USTR Announcement that the U.S. Will Support Waiving Intellectual Property Protections for COVID-19 VaccinesHealth GAP Executive Director Asia Russell said: “As HIV activists, we know that activism and global solidarity can change the trajectory of a pandemic. Today’s announcement shows that the Biden administration is feeling the pressure built over many months of…
April 14, 2021|Access to Medicines, COVID-19FORMER HEADS OF STATE AND NOBEL LAUREATES CALL ON PRESIDENT BIDEN TO WAIVE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RULES FOR COVID VACCINESMore than 170 former heads of state and government and Nobel laureates, including former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown, former President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of France…
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,…
