The Missing Medicines coalition condemns the actions of the UK Government at the WTO TRIPS waiver negotiations and calls for the text to be returned to that of the original proposal:
On 7th June 2022 the Third World Network reported that the UK, along with Switzerland, have been continuing to act to limit the scope of the TRIPS waiver text currently under negotiation. Changes include limitation of the scope of the waiver through...
Missing Medicines Coalition Responds to New UK International Development Strategy
Missing Medicines Coalition Responds to New UK International Development Strategy: This week the UK Government released its new International Development Strategy. The Missing Medicines Coalition welcomes references within this strategy to improving access to...
Missing Medicines Coalition call on UK Government to share vaccine doses and push Pharma to share manufacturing know-how
The Missing Medicines Coalition is calling for a renewed commitment from the UK Government to immediately redistribute available COVID-19 vaccines in light of a report published yesterday by AirFinity and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers...
Making COVAX work – People’s Vaccine Alliance write to Gavi Board Members
Ahead of the December 2020 Gavi Board Meeting, the People’s Vaccine Alliance wrote to all Board Members to outline the changes needed to the COVAX Facility. We recognise the considerable work that has so far gone into the design of the COVAX Facility thus far. As a...
Missing Medicines Coalition call for Moderna to openly share their vaccine technology so doses can be produced at needed scale, at the lowest possible price
Access to medicines campaigners today welcome the news that Moderna may have found an effective COVID-19 vaccine, but warn that serious affordability and access challenges lay ahead. Governments and pharmaceutical companies must take urgent action to make sure all...
The health innovation system is ‘broken’ and failing patients
NHS patients are being let down by a global health innovation system which fails to deliver the treatments they need at prices that government can afford, according to a new led by Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public...
Novartis must end ‘bullying tactics’ over life-saving medicines
Friday 2 March 2018 – Swiss multinational Novartis yesterday faced international calls from an alliance of health campaigners for an end to its ‘threats, lies and bribes’ towards governments over access to life-saving medicines, on the eve of the company’s AGM...
New Report: Drug companies in £1bn NHS rip-off
Treatments for cancer, arthritis and multiple sclerosis (MS) are among drugs costing the cash-strapped NHS over a billion pounds a year – despite public funding playing a substantial role in the medicines’ development.
Launch of PharMADNESS – an online game that exposes the profit-driven nature of drug development.
On the 10th October STOPAIDS Missing Medicines campaign is launching PharMADNESS - an online, interactive game that puts you in the seat of a Big Pharma exec and exposes the profit-driven nature of our system for developing medicines. The event will include a panel...
Missing Medicine campaign commends the recommendations of the UN High Level Panel on Access to Medicines and the call from panel members to go further
Three months after the original deadline, the UN High Level Panel on Access to Medicines (HLP) FINAL REPORT is finally out. In December 2015 Ban Ki Moon set up the HLP with the mandate to solve the policy incoherence between human rights, trade, Intellectual Property...
AstraZeneca: refusing people in Africa access to cancer treatment?
'There's no point giving free cancer drugs to Africa' a shocking headline, but not surprising when you realise it is propagated by the CEO of a BIG PHARMA company. The BBC article published last week outlined how Pascal Soriot, CEO of AstraZeneca doesn’t see tackling...
Campaign wins! Needs-based R&D, plans for sustainable funding and space for future talks around an R&D agreement: the WHA resolution on R&D for health is better than expected!
For the past 8 months the Missing Medicines campaign has been calling on the UK government to support the establishment of a global R&D agreement to ensure we produce the medicines we all need at prices we can afford. Over 6,000 people have taken action and on...
Celebrating 6,000 people taking action as part of the Missing Medicines campaign
Today Missing Medicines campaigners met up in Westminster to take some snaps to celebrate the 6,000 people who have take action as part of the Missing Medicines campaign in the last 8 months! Thanks to each person for their energy and dedication to achieving universal...
Access to 2nd line ARVs in South Africa
In South Africa, thousands of people living with HIV are resistant to first line antiretrovirals, for them the combination drug liponovir/ritonovir is a vital lifeline. Khaya Mhkize (not real name) was diagnosed with HIV in 2010 and Thandi Shabangu was diagnosed in...
Will we get the R&D reforms we want at this week’s World Health Assembly?
This week is the World Health Assembly where a resolution on Research and Development will be drafted and agreed upon by member states. This is a moment the Missing Medicines campaign has been working towards for quite some time with over 6,000 people taking action...
STOPAIDS, KEI and HAI statement at the CEWG open-ended meeting on R&D 2016
From May 2nd-4th the World Health Organisation's Consultative Expert Working Group on R&D (CEWG) have held an open-ended meeting to discuss reforms to our current R&D model and address market failures that lead to diseases areas being ignored and medicines...
Civil society urges Member States to support the Dutch EU Presidency’s vision on access to affordable medicines
Missing Medicines campaign urges Member States to support the Dutch EU Presidency’s vision on access to affordable medicines Call for backing comes as Health Ministers meet in Amsterdam today. Missing Medicine's campaign strongly support the Dutch European Union (EU)...
Kim’s story: Access to Hep C treatment in the UK
Many years ago, whilst in the Air Force we used to get Wednesday afternoon off if we were representing the base doing sports. Sometimes we needed time off to practice but if I asked the sarge for time off he used to say "The day you've got eyes in your backside will...