Similarly, have any of the universities receiving #CBRFBRIF public money said anything about global access provisions in relation to this funding, in press releases or otherwise?
Remember UAEM's disheartening Global Equity in Biomedical R&D report card for Canadian universities?

Today Colombia 🇨🇴 made an expensive HIV/AIDS treatment affordable

By overriding the patent monopoly (a 'compulsory license')

Pharma sued & attacked health ministry staff, delaying progress

Colombia stood tall. 👏👏

Let's follow the example.

Here is the dolutegravir license:

Huge thanks to students from UAEM tonight for standing in solidarity with us & #cysticfibrosis patients around the world that are dying without access to lifesaving Vertex Pharmaceuticals drugs. 💊🌍 #RightToBreathe #NoOneLeftBehind
Just Treatment 💊

.Bernie Sanders on fair drug prices (& our JAMA Network Open paper):

'My reaction to this study is Novo Nordisk has to substantially lower the prices... In the US until last year you had the insane situation where drug companies could charge any price they wanted for any reason.'

The strangest case of my primary care career began with an electronic patient request.

I get these a lot. 99% are med refills, forms, or questions about symptoms. This was different. My patient felt fine. But, he was worried he’d be sent to jail…

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Ed Silverman's pharmalot march-in article in STAT on march-in ends with link to letter Bayh and Dole wrote to Washington Post in 2002. But not the letter by Bayh to HHS in 1997 where he said the Act should be used to address high drug prices.
statnews.com/pharmalot/2024…

We've been talking for years about AI disrupting the labor market. That moment might almost be here.

Chatbots will soon be able to perform real tasks, like triaging medical patients.

Max Bell School of Public Policy Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy's Taylor Owen explains the rise of AI agents on #GZEROAI .

#UK officials pressured to drop IP demands in #India #trade talk

economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/trad…

ICYMI: Anmol Gupta (Anmol Gupta), Aftab Ahmed (@Aftab_Ahmed95) and Harshini Ramesh: Hunter Prize: A pan-Canadian digital highway: Using teleradiology to reduce wait times

thehub.ca/2023-09-26/hun…

.Maurice Remy from UAEM explains why he sees the #PandemicAccord as a vital step to prepare better against future pandemics.

#UNGA

“TB is where the drugs are not. The drugs are where the disease is not”

John Green captured the paradox of global health United Nations

Canadians wait weeks for their diagnostic imaging tests, adding to the hospital wait time crisis.

A pan-Canadian teleradiology network promises to ease the backlog.

Thanks to The Hub for selecting our proposal as a finalist for the #HunterPrize .

thehub.ca/2023-09-26/hun…

How today’s heavily financialised pharma industry works in three paragraphs.

Brian Callaci Open Markets Institute Jacobin

Fantastic testimony from a fantastic #acess2meds leader.

Justin Mendoza reminds us that states DO have power to reduce drug prices.

Really exciting to see this momentous step for the Medicare program. Some quick reactions to this first list of 10 drugs:

1. Many drugs are no surprise - especially Eliquis, Xarelto, Januvia, Jardiance, and Imbruvica. All widely expected to make this list

A first but very important step for millions of patients today with the announcement of the first 10 drugs to be negotiated. While we mark this important milestone we acknowledge the work ahead to keep fighting for affordable meds for everyone in the US.

Last December I wrote about the threat that the UK's proposed trade terms with India posed for access to medicines around the world: maxpolicy.substack.com/p/left-unchang…

Disappointed to see the terms haven't changed, but glad to see more groups calling them out.

Thanks to Toronto Star for publishing our piece on addressing veteran homelessness in Canada, after we released our policy report on the issue earlier last month.

thestar.com/opinion/contri…

'...taxpayer money went into funding and developing the drug, we should have access to it once it comes to market. But in reality we're paying twice.'

-Neda Ashtari #Access2Meds #WhiteCoatRebels

globalhealthpursuit.com/episode-showno…

Check it out below!! At minute 15 30s, Rick Zamperin and I discuss veteran homelessness and some of the possible policy solutions. Gratitude to 900 CHML for the opportunity to discuss this hidden yet important issue.