Category: Advocacy
Morocco: National Generic Drug Companies banned by the American laboratory GILEAD from producing anti-COVID-19 treatments
ALCS – AMDH – ITPC-MENA Joint Press Release Casablanca May 13, 2020 Moroccan civil society calls for government use licenses as national generics manufactures are banned from producing anti-COVID19 drugs by GILEAD On May 12, 2020, U.S. laboratory Gilead announced...
Initiative 5%: Call for proposal on operational research “ Improvement in tuberculosis screening, treatment and prevention”
Source: Initiative 5% website The 5% Initiative is the second mechanism for France’s contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GF). The operational implementation of this Initiative has been entrusted to Expertise France ( the French...
WHAT IS MISSING FROM THE UNITED NATIONS POLITICAL DECLARATION ON TUBERCULOSIS?
Source : ITPC GLOBAL (New York) — Today, UN Member States will come together at the UN Headquarters in New York City for the first “High Level Meeting” on TB, where countries will ratify a political declaration on tuberculosis (TB)....
The MENA Community Advisory Board (MENA-CAB) 2017 Report
The Community Advisory Board (CAB) constitutes a space of exchange between advocates from the MENA region, researchers and drug manufacturers, with the aim to educate people living with HIV and their advocates on access to treatment, to disseminate information about...
HRC38: Human Rights Council set to adopt resolution on Human rights in the context of HIV and AIDS
On Thursday, 28 June 2018, the delegations of Brazil, Colombia, Mozambique, Portugal, and Thailand submitted a draft resolution on “Human rights in the context of HIV and AIDS” to the 38th session of the Human Rights Council. The text of...
Civil Society Speaks: Fighting for Universal Access To Dolutegravir (DTG)!
Source : The Global Network of People living with HIV GNP+ What do people living with HIV need to know about Dolutegravir? What do our communities need to know about viral resistance to first line ARVs? GNP+ invites you to...
Global Fund MENA Regional Platform is relaunched
ITPC-MENA continues as the host for the Middle East and North Africa region As a key component of the Global Fund’s Community, Rights and Gender Strategic Initiative, the Regional Platform for Communication and Coordination will continue to support and facilitate...
New Study : Assessment of national intellectual property landscapes and their impact on access to medicines (Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia)
Title: A tool to assess how friendly to access-to-medicines your law is Background Provisions of intellectual property (IP) may have an important impact on access to medicines. For instance, the monopoly granted by the patent prevents competition with generics on...
Job offer for the MENA regional platform manager on Global Fund and Civil Society
JOB DESCRIPTION: REGIONAL GLOBAL FUND PLATFORM MANAGER ABOUT ITPC-MENA: International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) Middle East & North Africa (MENA) is a regional non governmental organization operating in the Middle East and North Africa region regrouping a network of community...
IAS 2017: Closing ceremony exposes Gilead Sciences
Conference funders, Gilead Sciences, named and shamed for its “insatiable greed” Yesterday, the 9th International AIDS Conference on HIV Science in Paris (IAS 2017), drew to a close, in style. The community address delivered by Othoman Mellouk, during the closing...