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www.healthjusticeinitiative.org.za The Health Justice Initiative (HJI) is a South African non-profit organisation working to address systemic health inequities and injustices in SA and beyond.

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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📣JUST IN📣 NEW PAPER: The Limits of Material Interest: Third Party Standing & Public Interest Participation in the Competition Tribunal – The case of Roche Link:📲 healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2026/09/21/t... With: Power Law Africa
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Geneva Health Files @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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The Illustrative Case of Lenacapavir: The Gatekeepers of Prevention, Access & Financing
Newsletter Edition #379 [The Files In-Depth]  Subscribe Now! Readers, Few stories capture global health in all its complexity where science, politics and the economics come together to show the mul...
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Trump-Starmer Pharma Deal gets worse and worse. To make it work, the government is now about to throw money at Big Pharma even before meds have been properly assessed. No concern for if they’re really effective. This is NHS money. It’s a scandal.
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
JUST IN📄🚨 The fight over NHI Act is in SA's courts with at least 10 cases challenging it! HJI's NHI Case Explainer breaks down every case in plain language: healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2026/08/26/h... In HJI's NHI e‑Library you can access:Court documents, laws, policy docs, submissions & more!
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Health Justice Initiative’s Explainer on NHI Legal Cases (2023–2026) - Health Justice Initiative (HJI)
Just released! Health Justice Initiative’s Explainer on NHI Legal Cases (2023–2026) As South Africa debates the future of universal health coverage, litigation around the NHI Act will shape the policy...
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🚨🚨🚨 At #AIDS2026 along with @africanalliance.bsky.social -we presented our analysis of one of the most important HIV prevention breakthroughs of our generation-and one of its biggest ethical failures! *A Breakthrough Withheld: Power, Control & the Slow Rollout of Lenacapavir* #BREAKTHREPATENTS 📄
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Join us: 📣📣
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TAGHIVscience @taghivscience.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Statement from #HealthGAP @asia-ilse.bsky.social @hji-sa.bsky.social @justtreatment.org Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association, ABIA), Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust
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Activists React to Merck’s Voluntary License for Generic Production of Investigational Long-Acting Oral PrEP Product, Alimatravir
Activists React to Merck’s Voluntary License for Generic Production of Investigational Long-Acting Oral PrEP Product, Alimatravir  If Alimatravir is Approved, Merck’s Unethical Exclusion of Middle Inc...
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Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
@unitaid.bsky.social is quietly searching for its next leader behind closed doors as calls for transparency grow. The incoming leader will inherit acute financial shortfalls and mounting pressure for institutional reform. ✍️ @fargonaut.bsky.social @gavi.org @unitaidngos.bsky.social 📖 ⬇️ & 🔁🙏
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Unitaid’s Opaque Leadership Search Advances Amid Plunging Budgets, Calls For Reform - Health Policy Watch
With the recruitment process ongoing for Unitaid's next Executive Director, the market-shaping agency faces acute financial contraction and growing questions over its opaque selection process compared...
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Trump administration’s cuts to the largest global HIV program last year resulted in sharp drops in both prevention efforts and treatment for the people most at risk from the disease. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/h...
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1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Aid Cuts, a Study Finds (Gift Article)
New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected.
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Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Two competing models could shape the future of pathogen access & benefit sharing. What are the key differences between the federated & hybrid approaches, & can the #PABS annex still be completed this year? 📰➡️ & 🔁🙏 healthpolicy-watch.news/pandemic-tal... ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @afro.who.int
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📣📣📣WE ARE 6!!📣📣📣
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Fatima Hassan @fatimahassan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
So excited.... Join us next Thur at Book Lounge in Cape Town. 🎙
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
📣 Join us 📣 16 July 2026. Book Lounge, Cape Town. Featuring:🎙 @tahiramin.bsky.social from @imakglobal.bsky.social
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
June 16: South Africa belongs to all who live in it. Say no to racism, sexism xenophobia, homophobia. ✊🏾
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
June 16: South Africa belongs to all who live in it. Say no to racism, sexism xenophobia, homophobia. ✊🏾
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
CONGRATULATIONS FATIMA ! 🎉🎉🎉 Fatima is reimagining access to life-saving medicine by challenging the systems that treat essential healthcare as a privilege rather than a human right. Read: www.ashoka.org/en-us/fellow... #AshokaFellow #EveryoneAChangemaker #HealthJustice #AshokaAfrica @ashoka.org
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
CONGRATULATIONS FATIMA ! 🎉🎉🎉 Fatima is reimagining access to life-saving medicine by challenging the systems that treat essential healthcare as a privilege rather than a human right. Read: www.ashoka.org/en-us/fellow... #AshokaFellow #EveryoneAChangemaker #HealthJustice #AshokaAfrica @ashoka.org
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Fatima Hassan @fatimahassan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Shameful, sad time for all of us, in what should otherwise be a time of celebration. SA Govt. 'launches' a prog. of about 37000 doses lenacapavir tomorrow, BUT we need MILLIONS of doses. Scarcity & control is self-created. Will the President take on Gilead, the pharma co. flexing all of its power?
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 4 June 2026, Thursday, SAST 11h00 __________________ Launch of Lenacapavir in South Africa for HIV prevention South Africa Helped Create Lenacapavir, Gilead Should Not Decide Who Gets It – SA Civil Society Groups
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Must Read:📲 For the LEN-LA roll out in South Africa, what is at stake? This 2-part series by @fatimahassan.bsky.social & Tian Johnson unpacks key issues affecting timing, pace, price, delivery, licensing & control. Part 1: health-e.org.za/2026/04/20/m... Part 2: health-e.org.za/2026/04/21/w...
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We Are Managing HIV With Selective Lenacapavir Roll-out, Not Ending It
Lenacapavir promised to change the course of the epidemic, but a limited, geographically selective rollout exposes a harder reality: who gets protected, who is left behind, and whether this is progres...
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Fatima Hassan @fatimahassan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Part 2: "Who controls South Africa’s lenacapavir rollout? Not South Africa" With African Alliance @hji-sa.bsky.social health-e.org.za/2026/04/21/w...
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Fatima Hassan @fatimahassan.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
'We are managing HIV with a selective lenacapavir roll-out, not ending it...' Our latest in health-e on SA's drip feed LEN-LA roll out - with @africanalliance.bsky.social - @hji-sa.bsky.social LINK: 📲 health-e.org.za/2026/04/20/m...
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We Are Managing HIV With Selective Lenacapavir Roll-out, Not Ending It
Lenacapavir promised to change the course of the epidemic, but a limited, geographically selective rollout exposes a harder reality: who gets protected, who is left behind, and whether this is progres...
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Asia Russell @asia-ilse.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
SCOOP: Trump is trying to disguise a sociopathic idea as a garden variety neo-con slogan ('trade over aid'). In fact they are proposing U.S. corporations exploit poor countries as a trough they can eat from, subsidized by public funds, while eliminating lifesaving aid. Gift link: wapo.st/4tg4zI4
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Trump administration pushes nations to sign ‘trade over aid’ declaration
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it an opportunity to use the U.N. system to “promote America First values,” according to a cable reviewed by The Post.
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Asia Russell @asia-ilse.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
thank you @altcdc.altgov.info Here is more about the protest: healthgap.org/press/aids-a...
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AIDS Activists and Former USAID Employees Arrested Disrupting OMB Secretary Vought’s Appearance at House Budget Committee Hearing
PRESS RELEASEFor Immediate Release: April 15, 2026Contact: Asia Russell, Health GAP: (267) 475 2645 | asia@healthgap.org AIDS Activists and Former USAID Employees Arrested Disrupting OMB Secretary Vou...
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
📣📣📣 HJI DIRECTOR, FATIMA HASSAN - RECOGNISED AMONG 20 LEADERS SHAPING HEALTH ACROSS AFRICA: 📲 meridianletters.com/africa-healt... @fatimahassan.bsky.social
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
📣📣📣 HJI DIRECTOR, FATIMA HASSAN - RECOGNISED AMONG 20 LEADERS SHAPING HEALTH ACROSS AFRICA: 📲 meridianletters.com/africa-healt... @fatimahassan.bsky.social
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Fatima Hassan @fatimahassan.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Well this happened- just so humbled to be alongside some of these great voices for health equity and justice in Africa. 🤲🏾✊🏾 meridianletters.com/africa-healt... #Africahealth20
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Africa Health 20
Africa Health 20 is an annual editorial project highlighting 20 leaders shaping health across Africa.
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
HJI sends it condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Stephen Lewis. Today, the world lost a social justice warrior and HIV Tx champion. Rest in Power, Stephen. ✊🏾🤲🏾 @theslf.org
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Global Strategy Lab @gstrategylab.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
🌍 Worried about the impact US policy has had on global health? 📖 Read this timely analysis from GSL Global Health Law Director, @roojinhabibi.org and co-authors @mattherder.bsky.social, Fatima Hassan, and Andrew Hill.
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
ICYMI. THE US IS DRIVING A PHEIC.
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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
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Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF
Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.
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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I've walked thru the economic logic here, but Gilead obviously does not say this out loud. They don't really have a good reason not to sell to MSF, which is why they landed on negotiating supply contracts is "a lot of work" (actual thing they said). 13/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/preve...
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Open letter to Gilead: Prevention should not be a privilege
MSF calls on Gilead for direct access to lenacapavir, as the current rollout falls far short of the needs.
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pharmalot.bsky.social @pharmalot.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Doctors Without Borders calls Gilead ‘unconscionable’ for refusing to sell HIV prevention drug to organization.. statnews.com/pharmalot/20... #pharma #HIV #AIDS #pharma #Gilead
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Doctors Without Borders calls Gilead 'unconscionable' for refusing to sell HIV prevention drug to organization
The move came after months of talks in which Doctors Without Borders asked Gilead Sciences for a “limited” supply of lenacapavir.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.
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The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital
Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 08/08/2025
Cool new research digs into 💉 purchasing contracts that pharma negotiated with South Africa Here's what they found: @hji-sa.bsky.social‬ @abinader.bsky.social‬ @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social‬
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Law and power in pandemic negotiations: Policymaking via contract in South Africa's dealings with COVID-19 vaccine companies - PubMed
COVID-19 vaccine distribution was marked by deeply unequal access for Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This article analyzes negotiations between government and pharmaceutical companies, through the c...
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Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
"Imagine a new HIV prevention tool existed that could – if it reached the right people – flick the switch to prevent almost all new HIV cases across the world... Fatima Hassan, Leena Menghaney, and Bellinda Nkoana brilliant piece @hji-sa.bsky.social www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/09/09/a...
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A new HIV prevention jab could end AIDS – unless secrecy and greed get in the way
A new HIV prevention jab has the potential to bring an end to the AIDS epidemic. But a lack of ambition and unjustifiable secrecy over pricing is holding it back, argue three leading health activists.
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mattherder.bsky.social @mattherder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
New analysis published in @bmj.com where @roojinhabibi.org Fatima Hassan, Andy Hill & I argue the US -- through its actions -- creating a 'public health emergency of international concern'. Multiple epidemics are expected, so we call upon @who.int to act decisively. www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
📢JUST IN📢 This HUMAN RIGHTS month, we are excited to share Health Justice Initiative's (HJI) Turning 5 Report. Link: healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2026/03/25/h...
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
MUST READ: 'The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern' @mattherder.bsky.social @fatimahassan.bsky.social A Hill and @roojinhabibi.org Via @bmjmedicine.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern
Matthew Herder and colleagues call for broader mobilisation to avoid the deaths and morbidity in low and middle income countries likely to result from recent US policy changes Announcing the United ...
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Fatima Hassan @fatimahassan.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Read our new piece on the pernicious role of the USG in global health, in the BMJ, today. *The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern* With: @mattherder.bsky.social @roojinhabibi.org and Andy Hill.
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The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern
Matthew Herder and colleagues call for broader mobilisation to avoid the deaths and morbidity in low and middle income countries likely to result from recent US policy changes Announcing the United ...
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
MUST READ: 'The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern' @mattherder.bsky.social @fatimahassan.bsky.social A Hill and @roojinhabibi.org Via @bmjmedicine.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern
Matthew Herder and colleagues call for broader mobilisation to avoid the deaths and morbidity in low and middle income countries likely to result from recent US policy changes Announcing the United ...
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
📢JUST IN📢 This HUMAN RIGHTS month, we are excited to share Health Justice Initiative's (HJI) Turning 5 Report. Link: healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2026/03/25/h...
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Savage. The White House has responded to the paper we published last night in @bmj.com, which calls the US administration a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Read & weep:
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Trump administration is world’s "worst public health emergency" say experts
The researchers argue that U.S. policy shifts are fuelling disease spread and rising deaths—in some countries more than others.
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
We are 5!!!!! For more on our work, and to support the HJI please visit: www.healthjusticeinitiative.org.za healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/donate/
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Global Health Solidarity Project @gh-solidarity.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"We thought we had built the right networks for HIV and COVID—but with today’s political and aid instability, we need new forms of solidarity. "- Fatima Hassan, @hji-sa.bsky.social during the 3rd GH-Solidarity Webinar @wellcometrust.bsky.social #Health #solidarity #southafrica #GlobalHealth
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Global Health Solidarity Project @gh-solidarity.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🔔How can solidarity be used as a tool for justice during times of crisis? We're honoured to feature Fatima Hassan, a leading human rights lawyer and social justice activist, and founder of the @hji-sa.bsky.social in our upcoming GH- Solidarity Webinar. #globalhealth
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Must Read: Law & Global Governance of Infectious Disease: Access to Medicines on COVID, AIDS, & Beyond Via: American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics Journal Cambridge Univ. Press @ASLMENews Matthew Kavanagh Luis G Abinader Fatima Hassan Eric Friedman Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Law and Global Governance of Infectious Disease: Access to Medicines on COVID-19, AIDS, and Beyond | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics | Cambridge Core
Law and Global Governance of Infectious Disease: Access to Medicines on COVID-19, AIDS, and Beyond
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Must Read: Law & Global Governance of Infectious Disease: Access to Medicines on COVID, AIDS, & Beyond Via: American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics Journal Cambridge Univ. Press @ASLMENews Matthew Kavanagh Luis G Abinader Fatima Hassan Eric Friedman Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Law and Global Governance of Infectious Disease: Access to Medicines on COVID-19, AIDS, and Beyond | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics | Cambridge Core
Law and Global Governance of Infectious Disease: Access to Medicines on COVID-19, AIDS, and Beyond
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Must Listen: Via @safm - this weeks Talking Point w. @CathyMohlahlana ''Health civil society organisations calling on government to make emergency funding available'' (PEPFAR/USAID cuts for health services & research) omny.fm/shows/the-talk… With @SECTION27news @SweatTweets
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