TB Accountability Project

Amazing week for TB advocates, I never want to hear the rhetoric of a weak/"vigourless" TB civil society, we broke that rhetoric @UnionConference. We are eager to achieve our demands including a dollar a day for bedaquiline!

Activism at #UnionConf continued this morning with demonstrators calling for Xpert for all!

TB drugs of the future: unknown quality? Unaffordable? Unavailable? @GlobalFund must wake up and ensure transition doesn’t erase last 15 years of progress for TB medicines market #UnionConf

Wake up Global Fund! Stop the Stock-outs! With the Global Fund transitioning away from procuring TB drugs it is up to the individual countries to ensure drug quality and coordinate pooled purchasing power. How will this affect the price and quality of TB drugs!? #ProcurementCliff

Civil society stormed a J&J sponsored session @UnionConference calling out "J&J, a dollar a day"-demanding for the price of bedaquiline to reduce and a response to @MSF_access letter to @JNJGlobalHealth on price decrease and a sustainable supply of bedaquiline @TAPUnion2018

Earlier tonight activists at #UnionConf reiterated our ask to @JNJGlobalHealth: drop the price of bedaquiline to $1/day so countries can implement injectable-free regimens for everyone now!

.@mwfrick @nandita_venky @jonathanjstillo, Michael Miro and Jen Furin led physicians, healthcare workers, advocates, donors, policy makers and persons affected by #Tuberculosis at the #UnionWorldLungConference2018 in a pledge to #CapTheJabs and to end unnecessary hearing loss

No one with MDR-TB should have to choose between deaf or dead. #Capthejabs @TAPUnion2018 @MSF_access @msf_tb

Pharma/J&J what are you thinking? Lives like mine are at stake, J&J bring down the price of bedaquiline to one dollar a day -Nandita cc @JNJGlobalHealth @MSF_access @msf_tb

What do we want? TB LAM! When do we want it? Now! Today @TAGTeam_Tweets had pop-up LAMonade stand @UnionConference calling for the increased use of the TB LAM urine dipstick test. This test saves lives by diagnosing TB in patients with advanced HIV disease. @MSF_access

"As a coalition representing the global #TB affected community we ask @JNJGlobalHealth to urgently make #BDQ accessible and affordable and save lives.” @blessi_k @G_C_T_A msfaccess.org/activists-inte… #UnionConf

Read our report on the barriers preventing most people from getting safe and effective treatment for drug-resistant TB and what must be done to change this: ow.ly/UbP230mmIOo

.@mwfrick kicks off the #UnionWorldLungConference2018 opening plenary on the need for a human rights-based approach to #Tuberculosis!

Carrie Bourassa speaks on the health of Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous principles and concepts of ethical research #UnionConf #TBRights

Now happening: First ever plenary on Human Rights in TB at the @UnionConference #UnionConf

Coco Jervis of GNP+ opens #UnionConf plenary on topic of TB, human rights, and international law “From Baltimore to Bangalore, the fact is that vast majority of people with TB face staggering stigma, discrimination, and human rights violations.” #TBRights

Protestors have taken to the stage to demonstrate about the price of TB drugs. #UnionConf

.@JNJCares received substantial taxpayer money for the development of #bedaquiline. They have a clear responsibility to ensure public return on this public investment by making this drug affordable and accessible ow.ly/6a2R30mmIVf

#Bedaquiline is a lifesaving drug for treating drug-resistant #TB, but most of the people who need it can’t access it. That’s why we’re asking @JNJCares to cut the price in half >> ow.ly/5OJM30mmIRl