Category: Hepatitis
MENACAB 2021 – 2022 REPORT : TREATMENT ACCESS IN TIME OF PANDEMICS
Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, Community Advisory Boards (CABs) constituted an effective tool to link communities as real partners with researchers and drug manufacturers; educate people living with HIV and their advocates, disseminate information about research and drug...
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...
Call for application : MENA-CAB meeting 2018
Are you advocates of the right to health and access to treatment? or activist living with HIV, hepatitis C, hepatitis B or tuberculosis in the North Africa and Middle East (MENA) region? Would you like to participate in an interactive...
ITPC-MENA organize its Middle East and North Africa Community Advisory board (MENACAB)
The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition in Middle East and North Africa (ITPC-MENA) is organizing its Middle East and North Africa Community Advisory board (MENACAB), in late November in Marrakech.The MENACAB is a treatment advocate network which main aim is to improve...
ITPC-MENA at the Mediterranean Symposium on HIV and Hepatitis (AFRAMED 2017)
ITPC-MENA at 2nd Mediterranean Symposium on HIV and Hepatitis (AFRAMED 2017) Join ITPC-MENA at AFRAMED 2017 – Hammamet Join ITPC_MENA at 2nd Mediterranean Symposium on HIV and Hepatitis (AFRAMED 2017) in Tunis and Hammamet from 27 – 30 September 2017. We...
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...
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...
HIV Activists Denounce ViiV for Denying 3.5 million People Access to Optimal Treatment
Source : ITPC GLOBAL Today, Monday, 24 July 2017, during the 9th International AIDS Conference on HIV Science in Paris (IAS 2017), HIV treatment activists from around the world collectively blocked access to ViiV Healthcare’s promotional booth and stormed its...
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...
Access to medicines amendment of the WTO TRIPS Agreement– hype or hope?
By: Ellen ‘t Hoen, Global Health Unit Department of Health Sciences, UMCG Groningen, e.f.m.t.hoen@umcg.nl On 30 January the World Trade Organization (WTO) announced the first ever amendment to the TRIPS Agreement under the headline WTO members welcome entry into force of...