Mobilize and fight back.

The WHO pandemic treaty: The Peace Clause and its discontents.

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🚨🚨🚨United States Trade Representative's annual NTE Report just dropped.

For the first time in memory, USTR is recognizing that it is NOT in the U.S. national interest to attack and threaten other nations’ consumer and worker protection measures. That is a change to be applauded and celebrated. 🙌

For a pandemic accord with equity

As part of this research, we asked Novo Nordisk for comment on their production costs (they declined).

Thank you Bernie Sanders HELP Committee Dems for asking more loudly, and for working to get a fair deal on drug prices.

Text of our JAMA Network Open study here:
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Price of Ozempic per month:
🇺🇸Nearly $1,000
🇨🇦$155
🇩🇪$59

Cost to Manufacture Ozempic: $5

Ozempic, Mounjaro & Wegovy are estimated to be a $150 billion a year cash cow for Novo Nordisk & Eli Lilly within a decade that could bankrupt Medicare & our entire health system. Insane.

This is very disappointing.

The Biden administration absolutely can do better than carry water for pharma

In an agreement intended to protect people in the U.S. and around the world from future pandemics.

Thank you Secretary Xavier Becerra & HHS.gov for continuing to plug away on implementing the Inflation Reduction Act secure lower drug prices and savings for Medicare beneficiaries.

Thanks DG Tedros.

We organized this call for equity w/ faith leaders, The People's Vaccine ACT Alliance & NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice

'... that people in the Global South are treated not as mere samples for pandemic monitoring but as equal partners in a shared endeavor towards a healthier world.'

COVID-19 devastated communities around the world. Many deaths and illnesses were preventable, but too many could not afford Big Pharma price gouging on vaccines.

I joined Bernie Sanders in urging President Biden to support a pandemic treaty with strong protections for future emergencies.

Governments have the leverage to negotiate conditions in their R&D funding to ensure development of & equitable access to resulting products. The Pandemic Accord under negotiation is an opportunity to make this a reality for future health emergencies. World Health Organization (WHO) #INB9 #pandemicaccord

🛐 It comes after more than 100 religious leaders urged World Health Organization (WHO) delegates to ensure 'that people in the Global South are treated not as mere samples for pandemic monitoring, but as equal partners in a collective endeavour towards a healthier world.' 5/
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Pharma's greedy monopoly over our health care system is why Americans pay the highest prices in the world for essential medicines!

Peter Maybarduk

We have an opportunity this week at WHO to negotiate a healthier and more just world.

“Millions of people in developing countries died at the height of the COVID emergency without access to the NIH-supported mRNA vaccines that made such a difference in the United States. The world has a rare, fragile chance to do better through the Pandemic Accord.' - Peter Maybarduk,…