The UK-India trade deal threatens #accesstomedicines and global health. I'm asking the UK government to withdraw its dangerous intellectual property demands. Act now: https://gju.st/3P65xER?utm_source=twitter_share&utm_campaign=%5B3806%5D&utm_medium=share

New article: 'The Gewirthian Needs-Based Hierarchy: A Concept for Prioritising Conflicting Norms in International Law' by Marc A. Stuhldreier, Nordic Journal of Human Rights:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/18918131.2023.2229155

#internationallaw
#accesstomedicines
#righttohealth
#legalhierarchy
#treatylaw
#IP
#patentrights
#TRIPS
#gewirth
#humanrights
#WTO

Pleased to share a new paper: "Breakthrough treatments for #Ebola but no access—what went wrong, and how can we do better?" #AccessToMedicines #globalhealth
https://twitter.com/ElsTorreele/status/1617928331814658048?s=20

RT @CPME_EUROPA: 📢 European Doctors are deeply concerned about the rise of short- and long-term medicine shortages

We call on the European Union to take urgent action

➡️ Press release: https://www.cpme.eu/news/european-doctors-call-on-eu-to-take-urgent-action-to-tackle-medicine-shortages

#AccessToMedicines

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/peterliese/status/1618303083804782594

"Stopping outbreaks when and where they occur"
Pleased to share my new publication in The Lancet, with amazing group of co-authors including Helen Clark, Mariana Mazzucato, Joanne Liu, Michel Kazatchkine and others.
Available free of charge: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00015-6/fulltext
@thelancet #AccessToMedicines

Big #Pharma’s obscene profits, not striking nurses, are killing the #NHS
"There’s so much hoo-ha about the fiscal consequences of nurses resisting pay cuts, but profiting by corporations isn’t deemed an issue. British prime minister Rishi Sunak claims that paying minimally decent wages to nurses is “obviously unaffordable”, while saying nothing about all the extra cash being handed to pharma companies that have a stranglehold on NHS spending."
#AccessToMedicines
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nhs-nurses-strike-big-pharma-medicine-profits/

Big #Pharma’s obscene profits, not striking nurses, are killing the #NHS
"There’s so much hoo-ha about the fiscal consequences of nurses resisting pay cuts, but profiting by corporations isn’t deemed an issue. British prime minister Rishi Sunak claims that paying minimally decent wages to nurses is “obviously unaffordable”, while saying nothing about all the extra cash being handed to pharma companies that have a stranglehold on NHS spending."
#AccessToMedicines
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nhs-nurses-strike-big-pharma-medicine-profits/

Calling it "pure and deadly greed" and "unseemly profiteering", Senator Warren and Senator-elect Peter Welch sent scathing letter to #Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla over company's plan to increase price of its #COVID-19 vaccines by 400% next year to $110-130 per dose. That 's a whopping 10,000% markup from the vaccine's estimated manufacturing cost.
#AccessToMedicines https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/pure-and-deadly-greed-lawmakers-slam-pfizers-400-price-hike-on-covid-shots/

During 2020-22 I connected with four colleagues to make the case for a waiver of intellectual property rights #TRIPSwaiver so more vaccines could be produced in times of catastrophic need. #VaccineEquity

I met two co-authors online. Intense outreach through seminars, hearings and debate followed. Work done by us and countless others might still transform #AccesstoMedicines

That was a gift of #Twitter.

Now I never see tweets from my collaborators. The damage to links unmade is incalculable.

I have just boosted a call from Health Justice Initiative in South African calling for donations on #givingtuesday

This might be new to some followers here but Fatima Hassan the founder is a tireless advocate for vaccine equity and public health. HJI could do with all our help, please consider donating.

https://healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/donate/

#VaccineEquity #Patents #AccesstoMedicines #GlobalHealth

@nogracias_eu
RT @Care4Access: "Privatization of knowledge leads to market failures, which not only impact neglected diseases. The billions of profits made by Moderna & Pfizer COVID vaccines illustrate that. Knowledge is a common good. We should shape R&D for public interest & #accesstomedicines @ElsTorreele

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/DaHammerstein/status/1575363455141515265