🚨 BREAKING NEWS:
“Today’s price announcement by Cepheid and its parent corporation Danaher is an important step in the right direction, and comes after years of public pressure to reduce the price of the TB Xpert tests.” @StijnDx
https://t.co/9qjkoXfeRI
.@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.
It continues to be ridiculous that the world's deadliest infectious disease is CURABLE, yet six people died from it in the time it took me to write this tweet. @DanaherCorp denying millions access to affordable, accurate TB tests is unacceptable. #PeopleOverProfits
Breaking news: Danaher thinks it is "sustainable" to price gouge the world's poorest countries with 500% profit margins for tuberculosis tests. #PeopleOverProfits
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
Just so you know, @DanaherCorp, today is Day One of However Long It Takes you to facilitate equitable and affordable access to lifesaving TB diagnostic tools.
We don't let up. #PeopleOverProfits
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.
I HAVE RETURNED TO MAIN because I am FURIOUS that @JNJGlobalHealth is preventing millions from accessing life-saving treatment with bedaquiline, thereby costing innumerable lives and increasing the global risk of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. https://t.co/AbTdNzC1Sm