@elizfarrell said what would be smart to do on CoJ, and Judge Newman agreed. Push them to move forward without delay, without removing himself from all the things. Great minds.
.@DanaherCorp has shut down their public-facing phone line. I guess they don't love hearing from the public. That's odd, because they were happy to accept over $250,000,000 of public money to develop their GeneXpert Machine.
Hey @DanaherCorp: You're already in the news. Great story about Danaher's price gouging and nerdfighteria's refusal to accept it. #PeopleOverProfits
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Thanks to everyone who has shared this video about @DanaherCorp's price-gouging the world's poorest people. Please keep sharing it on reddit, facebook, and with friends who will care about the Danaher's Reverse Robin-Hooding. https://t.co/JKfsVyqz63
Indian Residential School Denialists: “Dig up the graves! Show us the bodies!”
Those same people, when we plead to search the landfill, to bring our sisters’ remains home, plead for justice: “It’s too expensive! Too tedious! Too humanizing!”
#SearchTheLandfill
I want to be clear that while I think our pressure may have affected the timing, this must have been in the works for a while. The real heroes here aren't us but the Stop TB Partnership and other activists who've been working for YEARS to get to this moment. You rule. THANK YOU.
!!!!!!!!!!!!! @JNJNews, THANK YOU for choosing #PatientsNotPatents. Takes real guts to live up to your credo. Generic bedaquiline WILL BE AVAILABLE in almost every country with a high tuberculosis burden. I am so happy and grateful to the Stop TB Partnership, J&J, and especially the activists around the world who are standing up for TB patients. So much more work to do, but WHAT WONDERFUL NEWS TO WAKE UP TO.
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It seems like @JNJNews has the power to save a lot of lives here, I hope they follow their own corporate Credo to put patients first.
Let’s all remember that if @JNJGlobalHealth @jnjnews does the right thing, we celebrate that and them with absolutely raucous enthusiasm. Takes guts to actually choose #PatientsNotPatents.
Like many intentionally confusing corporate crisis response messages, this says a bunch of things that are true but don’t mean what you think, like for example:
“On April 5, during a World Health Organization meeting, the GDF shared its intent to launch a tender for generic versions of SIRTURO® 100mg in the third quarter of 2023”
This sounds like it says “everybody can have generic bedaquiline!!” But actually they *had to allow* the production of a generic because some countries had the power and systems in place to reject their attempt to extend their patent. The generic will not be available in countries where the patent extension wasn’t rejected, just like John said in his video.
Unless that’s not the case @JNJNews!!
If you’re telling us that you will allow the sale of generics anywhere in the developing world then we will happily send thank you baskets to your entire c-suite! Please let us know! Maybe we got it wrong and you only did the arduous work of extending the patent in a bunch of developing countries for funsies!
Today my brother made a video about how the patent on a drug for Tuberculosis should be expiring, but that Johnson and Johnson is extending with a legal loophole for four extra years.
As a result, experts estimate that six million people will die.
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It seems like @JNJNews has the power to save a lot of lives here, I hope they follow their own corporate Credo to put patients first.
We are not going away. We are unalterably opposed to the privatization of our public hospitals.
We paid for them. We built them. They do not belong to the Ford government to run them into crisis,
gut their core services & privatize them.
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This anti-trans, hate event is promoted by @lconnectnet in the town of @MDBville As the only gender affirming physician in the area - this puts gender diverse kids at risk of harm. As a citizen of Treaty 6, this is also a Treaty violation. Please go show your support for 🌈 kids.