Egypt becomes the first country to achieve WHO validation on the path to elimination of hepatitis C
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Next week, MOH @KKMPutrajaya plans to approve the Patent Linkage Guideline. This regulatory overreach expands patent monopolies, delays affordable generics, and threatens public health equity in 🇲🇾. Join our campaign & demand accountability today.
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🚨Developing countries' ability to issue compulsory licenses for generics is now under serious threat.
The non-violation complaints moratorium expires today & without it, countries can be challenged at the WTO for using rights TRIPS grants them.
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At #WTOMC14, the final hours have arrived. The TRIPS moratorium on non-violation complaints expires tonight. If it is not renewed, countries could be sued for using legal flexibilities to provide generic cancer drugs & HIV treatments. Public health is on the line.
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💊 The treatment, registered in Malaysia and Egypt in 2021, was developed by a public-private partnership bringing together the MoH Malaysia @KKMPutrajaya, Egyptian pharmaceutical company @PharcoC, Malaysian pharmaceutical company @pharmaniaga_bhd, @MSF and DNDi.
📊New data presented by Datuk Dr Radzi Abu Hassan at the 2025 #EASLCongress showed that the ravidasvir/sofosbuvir treatment can be safely shortened from 12 to 8 weeks. This shorter regimen is intended for people living with #HepC who do not have cirrhosis. https://t.co/bXtdmPfDss
The WHO recognizes a Malaysian-developed hepatitis C medication as an essential drug. Above all, it was Malaysia’s contribution to World Hepatitis Day in 2023.
The medication, *ravidasvir* (combined with sofosbuvir), was added to the WHO’s Essential Medicines List (EML) in 2023, marking a milestone for Malaysia in affordable hepatitis C treatment. This achievement is our national contribution to global hepatitis elimination efforts by 2030. It is hoped with the elimination of hepatitis C we will see less cases of long term complications of liver cancers, liver cirrhosis and liver failure.
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On the sidelines of the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva, @DrTedros handed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Population Dr Khaled Abdelghaffar the WHO certificate recognizing Egypt as malaria-free.
Over the years, 🇪🇬 has achieved major milestones in fighting communicable diseases:
✔️2006: Polio eliminated
✔️2022: Measles & rubella eliminated
✔️2023: 1st country to achieve the gold tier on the path to elimination of Hep. C
✔️2024: Hep. B control regional targets achieved
Through South-South cooperation, developing countries with endemic disease can address health challenges and promote medical innovation, argues @radzi_dr. https://t.co/HeHsRZoeRO
@JMP_DNDi @Dreamlopments @RaksthaiF@DNDi@PharcoC Congratulations for this amazing achievement and thanks for all partners participating in this success