Zain Rizvi
@zainrizvi
Senior health counsel @SenSanders @HELPCmteDems. Tweets are my own.
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04-04-2009 21:20:28
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.World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes President Biden' commitment to make medicines accessible and affordable to the American people.
Countries should use all legal tools available to promote timely, affordable access for all in need. #HealthForAll
A victory for clinical trial transparency!
In 2021, UAEM, my students, & I FOIAed U.S. FDA's 'Pre-Notices' to sponsors who withhold trial results.
In 2021, Reshma Ramachandran, Joseph Ross & I urged U.S. FDA share Pre-Notices proactively.
In Feb 2023, UAEM petitioned.
Yesterday, FDA agreed.
on rsch it funds. Those are built into the patent, reported in it. You can't 'seize' something you already own. #BundleOfSticks Sarah Owermohle Rachel Cohrs Adam Cancryn statnews.com/2023/12/06/dru…
US Senator Bernie Sanders speaks out about the unconscionable behaviour of Vertex Pharmaceuticals. 1/2
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
'If we can provide $886bn to the Pentagon for military spending, we can provide scientists with the money they need to develop cutting-edge cures that are accessible to everyone' Bernie Sanders
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‘Vertex is neither selling a new cystic fibrosis treatment in the developing world, nor allowing others to produce it; not only refusing to bring a life-raft to people drowning, but blocking others from deploying their own life-raft’ Brilliant Bernie Sanders theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Poor people in the developing world have a right to medicine. Patients should not die because of their income or where they were born. We must have the courage to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry, by Bernie Sanders theguardian.com/commentisfree/… via The Guardian #GlobalHealth
“Can the National Institutes of Health bring down drug prices? It doesn't approve new medicines or pay for them, but its role in drug research gives it surprising leverage.” Sydney Lupkin
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Essential that Pamela Hamamoto push for the inclusion of strong pricing and access standards in the #PandemicAccord
This is a historic opportunity to set strong global standards that put public health over profits.
#HealthEquity
'The life of a millionaire in New York City is not worth more than the life of a person living in extreme poverty in South Sudan,' says Bernie Sanders, urging 'public health over profits' in the WHO's draft pandemic treaty. commondreams.org/news/to-avoid-…