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In the news: FDA Warns People to Avoid Compounded Semaglutide Medicines.

Ask an AI: 'What are compounded Semaglutide medicines?'

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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 WTO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus And members of the mRNA technology transfer programme, launched in South Africa and with 15 partners around the world in low- and middle-income countries, are working together to produce their own vaccines instead of relying on others.
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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 WTO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Global South countries and global campaigners are still pushing for the US, UK, Switzerland and other blockers to agree to an extension of the TRIPS decision so that all developing countries have access to generic COVID-19 medicines and tests.
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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 WTO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus This ground-breaking programme could become a leader in the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria and neglected diseases.

As Joseph E. Stiglitz said recently “It is imperative that we have the capacity to produce in the south when the next pandemic comes.'

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Our reaction to the news of antiviral sublicence agreement:

'This could be a lifeline for people in the countries that can access generics through this deal, but COVID-19 medicines remain unattainable for people in the many developing countries excluded.

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There are striking parallels between COVID-19 and another deadly pandemic.

HIV.

Winnie Byanyima & Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex tell how corporate greed & political failure has cost millions of lives. And how to make it stop.

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The People's Vaccine Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 The UN , with leaders in Africa & pharmaceutical companies, MUST draw up HUMANITARIAN vaccine policy so that when the next lethal virus appears it is shared out equally by need & not by who can pay.
Many where willing to watch others die.
💁‍♀️Viruses don’t respect borders.

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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 WTO “The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that reliance on a few companies to supply global public goods is limiting and dangerous,” said WHO’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Currently only 1% of the vaccines used in are produced on the continent of about 1.3 billion people.
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For every 1 vaccine administered in a low income country, 117 are given in high income countries.
Source: Our World in Data

It's rampant our world can't afford.
Everyone deserves protection from COVID-19, not just the richest.

We need a

For every 1 vaccine administered in a low income country, 117 are given in high income countries.
Source: @OurWorldInData

It's rampant #VaccineInequality our world can't afford.
Everyone deserves protection from COVID-19, not just the richest.

We need a #PeoplesVaccine
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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 Rich countries disregarded global solidarity, hoarding vaccine supplies, siding with pharmaceutical companies’ monopolies, and acting in a manner the UN GC Guterres deemed “an obscenity. We passed the science test. But we are getting an F in Ethics'
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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 And this injustice isn't just in the past. Lifesaving COVID19 medicines remain unattainable for people in many developing countries.

Govts must reach a deal at @WTO that addresses intellectual property rules and prioritises lives over pharma profits.
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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 WTO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus There are initiatives in the works to ensure this vaccine apartheid is not repeated.

Global South actors in the 'Group for Equity' are fighting for a that will enable us to equitably and effectively prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from pandemics.
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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 WTO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Just as with , the global response to failed the world’s most vulnerable, putting nationalism and pharma profits ahead of public health.

Never again.

Robust pandemic preparedness is the world’s best insurance against future threats.

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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 WTO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Joseph E. Stiglitz President Ramaphosa’s speech showed “we felt like life in the northern hemisphere is much more important than life in the Global South”.

We must support the initiatives that aim to bring equity and justice the Global South, and fight the profiteering that block them.

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MPN Hero Dr. Naveen Pemmaraju uses social media to share information for people living with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs)—including right here on Twitter! Learn more about Dr. Pemmaraju’s online advocacy.

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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 They blocked the adoption of a comprehensive on Intellectual Property Rights despite the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism saying that this “would run counter to the fundamental human rights principles of racial equality & non-discrimination”
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Powerful address from South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 to a room of world leaders on the resentment felt by Africans at having to beg for vaccines and then being blocked from manufacturing vaccines on the continent.

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