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Letter |
19 May 2020

South Africa’s patent laws threaten access to future COVID-19 medicines

In a letter to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa published today, the Fix the Patent Laws (FTPL) coalition outlined major concerns about the country's ability to access future treatments or vaccines for COVID-19. They point out that the country’s outdated patent laws ensure that when effective treatments become available, they will likely be too expensive and remain inaccessible to those in need.

Press release |

Pfizer and GSK’s HIV/AIDS division, ViiV, prevents children with HIV from getting needed medicine

MSF calls out ViiV Healthcare—a division of US and UK pharmaceutical corporations Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline plus Japan’s Shionogi—for preventing children with HIV from getting child-appropriate formulations of a critical HIV medicine ...