Category: News
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)....
MENA Grants Update
This section will provide an update on where grants are at in all MENA countries. Most have recently been approved or should be approved soon. This is a particularly relevant time to provide an update like this. Afghanistan Disease...
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...
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...
2nd Francophone Symposium AFRAMED on HIV and Hepatitis
2nd Francophone Symposium AFRAMED on HIV and Hepatitis September 28 to 30, Hammamet, Tunisie Following the success of the first experience in Algeria, the second edition of AFRAMED symposium will be hosted by Tunisia. This AFRAMED edition is in line...
US Supreme Court Adopts International Exhaustion For Patents: Paving the way for parallel imports to exert downward pressure on domestic pharmaceutical (and other) prices
Source : By Frederick M The Supreme Court of the United States on May 30, 2017 adopted a rule of international exhaustion of patent rights for the United States in Impression Products v. Lexmark International, No. 15-1189. The near-unanimous decision...
Youth Toolkit for the High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS 2016
The youth toolkit for the High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS (HLM) 2016 is developed by the PACT, a global coalition of youth organizations working collaboratively in the HIV response towards ensuring the health, well-being and human rights of all young...
Morocco: Creation of a collective for t the right to health in the framework of the negotiations of the EU ALECA
At a time when the Kingdom of Morocco and the European Union are preparing to resume negotiations on the "comprehensive and thorough free trade agreement" (FTAA), Moroccan civil society unites to bell Alarm about ALECA's danger of access to generics...
WHO Launches New HIV Treatment and Prevention Guidelines
The WHO has made two important new treatment recommendations that will affect all HIV treatment programmes. The recommendations are entitled the ’Early Release’ Guidelines on when to start antiretroviral therapy and on pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV. The recommendations in this...
Treatment Advocates Denounce Gilead’s Embargo against Thousands of Tunisians Suffering from HCV Infection
The Tunisian Association of Fight against STDs and AIDS (ATL Tunis) and the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition in MENA Region (ITPC-MENA) denounce the refusal of Gilead Sciences to make their drug against the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), sofosbuvir, available to...