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🚨🚨NEW: MSF Access Campaign @MSFAccess report: Secrets Cost Lives – Transparency and Access to Medical Products This report outlines why progress towards equity in access to medical products can only be built on the open sharing of information and knowledge - not on secrets 🧵

That moment when @MSF_uk @MSF buy the ads… …UK government is indeed complicit. Not on our watch.

This is not business as usual. My new UN report, From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, is out today. It shows how corporations have fueled and legitimised the destruction of Palestine. Genocide, it would seem, is profitable. This cannot continue, accountability must follow. ohchr.org/sites/default/… #EconomyofOccupation #EconomyofGenocide

📢 CALL TO ACTION – MASSIVE SOCIAL MEDIA AND EMAIL CAMPAIGN The Israeli military reportedly announced the deployment of a naval commando unit to intercept our ship. Let’s unite our voices to demand safe passage for the Freedom Flotilla! With just a few clicks, contact the authorities to demand: ⚓ Safe passage for the ship 🚛 Unrestricted entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza ⚖️ Israel’s respect for international law 📲 Take action now via this link : palestine.risefor.org/s/freedom-flot… #safePassageNow #Breakthesiege #FreedomFlotilla

The Gaza freedom flotilla is rescuing Sudanese refugees. Our causes are linked. We are one. From Sudan and Palestine to Haiti and Congo.

British surgeon Victoria Rose, who's just returned from Gaza: "They're coming through the doors like a conveyor belt... really small children with massive injuries.. bits of their bodies blown off... every day at least half [of my cases] were under the age of 11.. its barbaric"

“They killed my mother — and before that, my brother. I urge everyone: do not go to the American aid distribution points soaked in blood. This bag only contains 2 empty flour sacks — nothing else — & yet they shot & killed my mother as she tried to get us something to eat today.”

He argues for the need for standardization in *how* R&D costs are reported so this can be demanded from industry as part of health technology assessment

At the @Wemos @HAImedicines #WHA78 side event on transparency where the Spanish Minister of Health highlights Pharma industry hypocrisy in saying they don’t know what their R&D costs are when this is the backbone of their justification for high prices.

Big Pharma is using Trump’s tariffs as leverage to protect its profits at the expense of access to medicines—the E.U. should not give in. citizen.org/article/realit…

We published the costs of TB-PRACTECAL, a clinical trial conducted to identify a shorter, all-oral treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB): journals.plos.org/globalpubliche…

It’s time to put people before profits and individual national interests, and ensure lifesaving medical tools reach those who need them most. MSF full statement: msfaccess.org/msf-welcomes-p… @MSF_access #PandemicAgreement

Ground-breaking research and development (R&D) access requirements: for the first time in international health law, governments will be required to develop and implement policies that include building global access conditions into public R&D funding agreements;

MSF has responded to many health emergencies over the past 50 years - incl. HIV, TB, Ebola, COVID-19. We have witnessed how a lack of access to medical tools has left behind marginalised communities. The @WHO #pandemicagreement was agreed today. Here are 3 ways it could help🧵

BREAKING: Government’s own impact assessment on welfare cuts finds they would drive 250,000 more people, including 50,000 children, into poverty

Awesome to see Gary @garyseconomics at the wealth tax rally “I’m not very keen on rally’s. I always leave wondering if we can win. But I’m here cos I think we can win this one” #TaxTheSuperRich

An incomprehensible crime. The greatest of my lifetime.

📢Today it's #WorldTBDay. We wrote to @Keir_Starmer calling on him to reverse the UK aid cuts - they will devastate TB services. MSF projects are already seeing patients that are resistant to all TB treatments. The world's most vulnerable should not face more cuts to care👇

Listen to his wisdom. And empathy.

We stand in solidarity with activists mobilising outside of Parliament and fighting the deadly cuts to UK aid. The government has other means to increase its revenues, rather than stripping the UK's contribution to saving lives and building a safer world for all.

🚨 The government’s #NHS England scrap raises more questions than answers. On @SkyNews, our Director Diarmaid:  “If we risk a large scale reorganisation without significantly increased funds, I have very grave concerns things are going to get worse instead of better.” ⬇️