#Timefor5

[iamlestatsmuddyshoes]

FIGHTERS:

Contact Danaher and let them know it's time for $5:

Post on social media using #PeopleOverProfits and #TimeFor5, and tag @DanaherCorp and @CepheidNews on Twitter.

Call Danaher's corporate office at +1-202-828-0850.

Email Danaher at sustainability@danaher.com.

[road2nf]

https://tbfighters.org/

Tuberculosis is curable, yet 1.6 million people die of tuberculosis every year while Danaher grossly overcharges for diagnostic tests for the people who can least afford it.

[emily-erdbear]

I'm not really active on any social media and this probably won't do much on tumblr but I am enraged that Danaher and Cepheid use a printer ink model to sell overpriced cartridges to test for TB and multi resistant drug TB causing many people to not getting treatment early enough and fucking die!

So drop those prices!!

[ms-metra]

Hey all TB fighters has been pressuring Danaher(a publicly traded company) to lower the prices on its various tests for diseases. These tests make it possible to screen for diseases such as TB, HIV, Ebola, and many more. Unfortunately, they are extremely overpriced, which makes them very hard to access in lower income countries. A few months ago, TB fighters(and John Green) led an online campaign that successfully lowered the price of its MDR-TB test, but now they're pushing for the same thing on all of its tests. If you want to help, you can sign the petition below(also linked a video explaining why it'll work).

[vizivoir]

anyway, so this is unacceptable

ough oops whats this im dropping it's Danaher's corporate phone line and also their email ahha I'm so clumsy

+1-202-828-0850 sustainability@danaher.com

[dykebeeduo]

This is Tuberculosis Underscore, and THIS

is Tuberculosis a bacteria that will infect 10 million people this year and kill 1.5million, the WHO recommends that a rapid test be administered by anyone presenting with symptoms and signs of TB one of these tests is the GeneXpert test from Danaher/Cepheid a test which is being sold for more then twice its manufacturing cost, and at least three times cost for Ebola, Covid19, HIV and Hepatitis tests.

It is #timefor5

[janmamu]

fuck them

[echever]

I'm lucky that, despite being on medication that compromises my immune system, I live a nation with somewhat affordable access to TB tests that help keep me safe. Millions of others don't get that cosmic luck.

Danaher is 132nd on the Fortune 500 list. It’s no surprise; they are making a killing on their company Cepheid's tests. Cepheid marks up these tests by 100-300% for countries that need them the most. It’s time to drop the price of these tests to $5.

[audible-smiles]

So: starting tomorrow, there's a coordinated pressure campaign to get Danaher, the giant company that makes diagnostic test cartridges for tuberculosis and other diseases of poverty, to lower their prices. This would increase access to testing and help prevent a great deal of suffering and death around the world. The campaign has already seen some success (Danaher agreed to lower the price of one particular TB cartridge, just not far enough, and not all of them), so we are ramping things up over the next few weeks. Your task, if you choose to accept it, is to be as annoying as possible (without being abusive to the staff you directly interface with, who don't have any decision-making power). The goal is for the bad publicity and criticism to become an overwhelming liability for the company.

Above is a list of various actions you can take over the next 3 days.

Here is a link to the social media accounts of all Danaher-owned companies and another page with the company's e-mail, e-mail templates, phone number, and more

Here is a library of social media graphics you can use

Here is a petition for you to sign

And here is a goofy-ass meme template featuring Pantone (a Danaher subsidiary) and their "color of the year" thing

[demetriusyeet]

[firefly-fez]

Making some art to promote TB awareness.

[nerdfighternichole]

Please sign this petition to tell @DanaherCorp that their test prices are too much. Why should someone have to spend ALL their money just to get a test? Medicine should not be a luxury. #TimeFor5 #PeopleOverProfits

[bassproshopspyramid]

image ID: the destiel breaking news meme, but after cas says "i love you", dean replies:

cas, danaher corporation and it’s subsidiary company cepheid are still charging tuberculosis (TB) patients in low- and middle-income countries $10–$20 to access quick and accurate testing despite the fact that cepheid’s genexpert machine tests were developed with at least $252 million in taxpayer money and doctors without borders found out that the tests only cost $3–$4.50 to produce. TB is a major cause of death and disability, not to mention that the inaccessibility of these tests leads to the spread of drug resistant TB around the globe.

it’s #timefor5. find out how you can help at tbfighters.org

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

From TBFighters.org

Danaher - a large U.S. corporation - owns many smaller biotech companies, including Cepheid. Cepheid designs and manufactures diagnostic tests. Their TB GeneXpert test determines whether someone has tuberculosis and if the infection is drug resistant or not, enabling effective treatment.

Using the "printer ink" business model, Danaher sells the testing machines at a reasonable price, but WAAAY overcharges for the test cartridges themselves, especially the cartridges that show whether the type of TB someone has is likely to be drug-resistant, meaning that even when people can get a diagnosis, they may end up wasting valuable time on treatments that are less likely to be effective because they couldn't access the more advanced diagnostic cartridge, which, by the way, costs the SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY TO MANUFACTURER AS THE BASIC DIAGNOSTIC CARTRIDGE. Danaher is PURPOSELY price-gouging and it's costing thousands of lives a year.

But there's something we can do about it.

Contact Danaher and let them know to put #PeopleOverProfits and start selling their diagnostic cartridges for $5. It's #TimeFor5.

Danaher's corporate office: 202-828-0850

Email: sustainability@danaher.com

Social Media: @DanaherCorp and @CepheidNews

For email, phone, and social media templates, (and more info and graphics to share) visit TBFIGHTERS.ORG

[arthropodboy]

Nothing is more punk than increasing access to life saving medical tests for millions of people

If you want to help, here are some ways to contact Danaher and tell them they should reduce the price of these life saving tests to $5: Email: sustainability@danaher.com Phone number: +1-202-828-0850 Here is a link to some email and phone call templates: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTh05tEoyCsh8oEWScWM9n41B1pcUeVNGFcUDqdlcILHvVUB2_LsK4voMTdKPdEQwmjMHRBaoalG259/pub Here is a link for the info graphics used above: https://peaceful-place-e13.notion.site/TimeFor5-Graphics-Library-95194d0915394d3d981220bd783a5888 For more info visit: https://tbfighters.org/