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Today we share correspondence (email thread) with IAS IAS - the International AIDS Society following 40+ Groups Open Letter (8 Health Related Demands) in February 2024.

And regarding:
-upcoming 25th AIDS Conference in Germany;
-IAS continued silence on Genocide in Gaza.

Silence is complicity.

Humanitarian aid and missions in #Gaza urgently need safe, sustained and smooth passage across the Strip to serve people in critical need of lifesaving care.

On 20 April, World Health Organization (WHO) and partners could only partially complete their mission to Kamal Adwan and Al-Awda hospitals due to

We will see if HIV related civil society organizations & key population organizations or their members decide to speak up about the Israel genocide in Palestine at 'AIDS 2024' the 25th International AIDS Conference in Munich Germany in July.

Or not.

IAS - the International AIDS Society AIDS Conference

And people - here is the IAS for you - complicit silence, when it suits.

If you attending the 25th AIDS conf. in *Germany* -you know what to do...what to say...when to say it...

Say it, say it.
Genocide in Gaza.
Say it.

#GazaHealth
#GazaGenocide

1/5: The proposed text for WHO #PandemicAccord has been released. Access the text from this link: healthpolicy-watch.news/wp-content/upl…

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Today we share correspondence (email thread) with IAS IAS - the International AIDS Society following 40+ Groups Open Letter (8 Health Related Demands) in February 2024.

And regarding:
-upcoming 25th AIDS Conference in Germany;
-IAS continued silence on Genocide in Gaza.

Silence is complicity.

On Apr 18, internationally renowned scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian was arrested by Isra*li police at her home. This is an attack on all scholars & activists who bring to light the violent & gen0cidal nature of the Isra*li state. Read & share tinyurl.com/FreeNadera #FreeNadera

A new draft of the Pandemic Agreement, an accord under deliberation with World Health Organization member states, leaked earlier this week.

With final negotiations set for late April, Dr Alexandra Phelan and Nina Schwalbe explain the nuances behind the text. on.cfr.org/4aJ1gQa

The statement from World Medical Association is so bizzare...none so blind as those who do not want to see the ethical, moral, medical, legal issues of a genocide...using health workers and health care as weapons of war in Gaza are war crimes.

Suspend the IMA NOW. 🚨

Insufficient, imbalanced, and burdensome on developing countries.

K.M. Gopakumar, senior researcher Third World Network, explained why the current Pandemic Agreement text will do more harm than good if signed as it is in a Devex article by Jenny Lei Ravelo.

devex.com/news/experts-w…

Saving lives is not a crime.

Today at #Wits
Special screening of Tomorrow’s Freedom, a documentary on political prisoner Marwan Barghouthi. Program will include a Q&A with the producers and a special guest.
RSVP at forms.gle/tVB35m6Nu87nAu…
#jhbevents
#freedomday

Francois Venter Aka a 'heist'.

We called this out years ago...:

dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/20…

aka 'We tested our vaccines on you lot, made tons of money, now sod off.' This company is a disgrace.

6/6 Many activists and representatives of Global South countries knew the truth though: the WTO and the TRIPS Agreement would be a death sentence for millions around the world, serving to uphold the Global North’s comparative advantage in a new knowledge/technology economy.

5/ Ahead of the signing ceremony, Director-General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Peter D. Sutherland heralded the Final Act as the “greatest trade agreement in history, one whose benefits span entire continents”.

4/ Upon its signing, TRIPS created an instrument multinational pharmaceutical companies could wield to enforce monopolies over life-saving knowledge, stymieing the Global South’s ability to catch up technologically and ensuring a state of dependency in a post-colonial world.

3/ Among the most significant components of the Final Act was the TRIPS Agreement, an international treaty that, for the first time, globalised and enforced Western intellectual property regimes under a “rules based order” as part of the global trading system.