TB advocates

Open letters to Johnson & Johnson requesting equitable access to bedaquiline

Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan and Moldova demand that Johnson & Johnson take urgent action to improve equitable access to bedaquiline in all countries with a high burden of TB.

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Urgent action necessary for equitable access to bedaquiline in all countries with high burdens of TB, MDR-TB, and TB/HIV

Advocates demand that Johnson & Johnson commit to non-enforcement of secondary patent on bedaquiline so that access to generic, quality-assured bedaquiline is guaranteed after the primary patent expires on 18 July 2023.

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Urgent action necessary to improve equitable access to GeneXpert TB diagnostics and achieve 1/4/6x24

Advocates urge Cepheid to take immediate action necessary to bring about affordable, equitable, and expanded access to GeneXpert TB testing.

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Urgent action necessary to improve equitable access to bedaquiline-based regiments and achieve 1/4/6×24

Advocates urge Johnson & Johnson to correct its course and stop blocking entry of generic versions of bedaquiline into the global market and into countries.

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Advocates call on Indian government to stop using injectable agents for the treatment of drug-resistant TB

Advocates urge the Indian government to stop using kanamycin for the treatment of drug-resistant TB and instead scale up access to all oral regimens.

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Time to lower the price of Xpert cartridges to $5

Advocates request Cepheid immediately reduce the price of Xpert tests to $5, inclusive of service and maintenance; Cepheid claims costs for each Xpert cartridge "substantially exceed" the requested price target of $5, but does not provide evidence to support this claim.

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FDA approves pretomanid for highly drug-resistant forms of TB

Pretomanid receives FDA approval in combination regimen with bedaquiline and linezolid for people with XDR-TB or treatment-intolerant/non-responsive MDR-TB.

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Transparency and access to pretomanid and the Nix-TB regimen

Advocates request responsible investment in pretomanid promoting transparency and equitable access.

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Activists demand Johnson & Johnson drop the price of bedaquiline

Activists storm the corporate stall of Janssen Pharmaceuticals (a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson) at the 9th South African AIDS Conference.

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Advocates call on TB Alliance to make public the pretomanid licensing agreement with Mylan

Advocates request full access to the terms of the agreement granting Mylan the rights to commercialize pretomanid.

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