It looks like twitter is barely still breathing so I guess I should update you all on how the writing is going, a lot has happened. I got a cover, my beta readers (who ae absolutely lovely) are killing it, sensitivity reader will hopefully be booked next month, then editing!
So when @msf, @pih, and hundreds of TB researchers and caregivers signed a letter begging you to end secondary patents for bedaquiline.... they were lying?
THAT'S your response?
Good morning. Johnson & Johnson has not yet commented on the huge public outcry over the last 24 hours about their pursuit of patent evergreening for bedaquiline, a medicine critically important to curing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Today is the day, @JNJGlobalHealth, to end the pursuit of an everlasting patent so that six million people can receive lifesaving medication over the next four years. #PatientsNotPatents
I want to be very clear that no one is SUGGESTING that people will die because Johnson & Johnson is trying to immorally extend their patent on bedaquline an additional 4 years after its 20-year term.
Instead, people are STATING THE FACT that people will die because of Johnson & Johnson trying to immorally extend their patent on bedaquiline an additional 4 years after its 20-year term.
It is false to suggest—as some recently have—that our patents are being used to prevent access to SIRTURO® (bedaquiline), our medicine for MDR-TB.
In fact, we have already entered into a collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (“GDF”)—the largest procurer of TB medicines—which enables them to invite potential generic suppliers and purchase generic versions of SIRTURO® 100mg. 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: https://t.co/6m49h5g7tn
In addition, we have shipped more than 660,000 courses of SIRTURO® to 159 countries since launch. Our patents made this possible, enabling us to assist countries to scale-up their use of our medicine responsibly and sustainably and invest in multiple, critical, anti-TB efforts. For instance, in the face of rising drug resistance, we support stewardship efforts that ensure MDR-TB patients can benefit from our medicine today and in the future.
Unfortunately, the most significant barrier to treatment access for patients today is the fact that millions of patients with TB go undiagnosed every year. This is a challenge that we have invested significant resources to overcome and must all get behind if we are to achieve the global goal of ending TB.
#PatientsNotPatents because these rich mother fuckers forgot that us being civil was a compromise to ripping their doors down and beating them to death in front of their families. Let people live. #tuberculosis
@CSexton25 Rn Tennessee is a powderkeg of gen z power. Start walking to back before those kids, many of which are about to be of voting age, come for your throat in the next election. Go ahead and expel these reps, sign the death certificate of your own career.
@TygerSongbird You have every right to be mad. She's just mad because she has a cookie cutter image of what she wants your life to be and doesn't like that you're not fitting it, you do you, she will get over it eventually, or not, either way, that's her problem.