#tuberculosis patents

[beautifulcrownobserves]

Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson

[ashirisu]

John Green is on the warpath and I don’t know if I really have the words to describe the emotions I feel having watched the tuberculosis saga from the beginning and seeing it now culminate in him gleefully calling Johnson & Johnson a pick-me bitch for trying to evergreen their patent on bedaquiline.

I think that we don’t acknowledge often enough how genuinely wonderful it is to be on earth at the same time as the Green brothers and to see them doing everything they can with their money and influence to make a real, substantial difference in the world. They’re good and kind and inspiring, and I hope that I can someday use whatever fraction I may get of their combined resources and talent to make a proportionate fraction of positive change.

Also, if you’re mad at capitalism and are eager for an opportunity to take it out on a corporation working on some truly heinous shit, please take this opportunity to go shred J&J for putting profit over patients and denying their part in keeping TB relevant in the year 2023.

[autumn2may]

Johnson & Johnson is currently, like right this minute, trying to extend their patent on the TB drug bedaquiline, keeping it out of generic for another four years. TB killed about 30,000 people last week and is the world's deadliest infectious disease.

If this drug does not go generic now it could affect 6 million people in the next four years (the time it would take the "new" patent to run out). Out of those millions of people who get TB, but can't get bedaquiline, most of them will die. From a PREVENTABLE DISEASE.

Why is this happening? Money. But also, because TB is not an issue in countries like the US. We can afford its $1.50 a pill price. But if you live in a poor country, that's too much money to spend on something you need to take for up to four months.

J&J needs to let this drug go public and do its job in places that can't currently afford it. They need to help people, instead of trying to wring the last few drops of money out of one of their many products, at the cost of human lives. @sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog does a waaaay better job of explaining this than me. Check out the video and the video description for links and ways to help!

[arcticmonkeysjunglepenguins]

Hey all you know tuberculosis right? That old timey disease. When was the last time you heard of someone dying from it? What if I told you that 30,000 people died of Tuberculosis LAST WEEK.

Now tuberculosis is curable. A key drug in the treatment of TB is Bedaquiline which Johnson & Johnson owns the patent for. It cost about $1.50 (USD) per pill. It is was created in 2003 and the patent is due to expire this month. After this generic version of the drug can be made lower the cost to 50c per pill. Which is vital in poorer nations as we can see from the comment posted below. HOWEVER in 2007 the filed a secondary patent. Meaning the drug will

To put it simply I am not happy about this. The secondary patent is an addition to the first and does not make major changes to the drug. The need to enforce this patent is purely motivated by greed. Which is not right. Johnson & Johnson is big company so it is hard to avoid but I want it to be know that decisions the company is making is going to have an impact on the world today.

People will get sick and die. It is estimated that if the patent was allowed to expire over 6 million lives would be saved over the next 4 years due to increase access.

So I just ask that you keep this in your minds and spread awareness of this decision made by Johnson & Johnson and if you have the time let them know you are unhappy with this decision.

The video that introduces me to this issues:

https://youtu.be/tMhgw5SW0h4

Johnson & Johnson Concern Report page:

https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain/media/en/gui/28704/report.html

[rolandtowen]

hello.

I have returned from the trenches of Twitter to inform yall that there is an effort to mobilize against Johnson & Johnson's decision to extend their patent on a life-saving tuberculosis drug. Renewing this patent will prevent millions of people from accessing life-saving care.

If you would like to learn more, watch this video:

If you would like to do something, you can make memes, @ J&J on social media, and report your concerns here:

https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain/media/en/gui/28704/report.html

[rivver-b]

So Johnson & Johnson's patent on the life-saving TB drug bedaquiline is about to expire and they're STILL trying to extend it via a loophole, preventing more affordable generic brand versions of the drug from being produced, for another 4 years.

In those 4 year, millions of people will die due to lack of access and affordability.

Please submit an ethics report to J&J via:

https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain/media/en/gui/28704/report.html

And signal boost everywhere else you can.

[snowgall]

John Green: Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson

Hey @JNJNews @JNJGlobalHealth: Evergreening your patent on bedaquiline, denying millions of people access to live-saving treatment, is a violation of your corporate credo: we believe our first responsibility is to the patients

@sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog

[superstrijder00]

Jonhson & Johnson Shady Business and Tuberculosis

All information is in this video by John Green, the intern behind @sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMhgw5SW0h4&ab_channel=vlogbrothers

The important bits:

Johnson & Johnson is a pharma company that in 2003 invented the first tuberculosis medicine since like the 60s. They got a patent, because they like money. That patent expires in just a few days, which means that now other companies should be able to make way cheaper versions.

However they also got a patent in 2006 or so (I forgot the date already), for a specific bit that makes the medicine work a bit better. They are going to enforce this patent in large parts of the world, to prevent other companies from making cheap versions of the original medicine.

This is going to cost roughly 6 million lives, due to the number of people who will remain unable to afford the medicine between the expire of these medicines.

To protest against this, this post is part of a social media campaign of shaming the company and *respectfully* approaching its employees and directors to tell them this is bad, and furthermore to try to get generic versions of their stuff to also hit their profit margin.

This is a provided picture of a number of their products.

And these are their generic socials. Remember, don't act like you did when you bullied John off of tumblr, be polite but angry.

Tell them on twitter: https://twitter.com/JNJNews and https://twitter.com/JNJGlobalHealth Tell them on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jnj/ Tell them on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jnj/?hl=en

Again, further information in the video linked at the top.

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[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"FRIEDMANN TREATS 20 FAVORED PATIENTS," Toronto Star. March 11, 1913. Page 14. --- German Tuberculosis Specialist Demonstrates His "Cure" in Montreal Hospital. ---- IT CAUSES SENSATION ---- The Whole Medical Class From McGill University Present at the Test. ---- Special to The Star. Montreal, March 11. - Twenty favored tuberculosis cases were treated by Dr. F. F. Friedmann, the celebrated German medical man, in the Royal Edward Institute here to-day.

Scores more had made application in writing, and in person, but the list of applicants was first reduced by the staff of the Royal Edward, and further cut down when Dr. Friedmann personally told his assistants at the institute what his desires were.

The doctor is of dapper type. In fact, one would not pick him out as a member of the healing profession, but would rather be inclined to think that he is some member of the diplomatic profession perhaps He is of good stature, but of slim build Dressed nattily in morning attire, with a comfortable looking overcoat and a soft felt hat of the broad brim type, now so fashionable in Europe, the doctor impresses one as being an individual who pays direct attention to the niceties of dress.

Has a Nervous Temperament. One is impressed with a sense of a nervous temperament. Quick in action, quick in movement; for instance, he seemed always to want to run up stairs, rather than walk up slowly. Those who have met him more intimately confirm that impression, but say that much of his present nervousness has been caused by the severe criticism he has been subjected to while in America. Before Dr. Friedmann had arrived at the Royal Edward Institute there was an invasion of the greater portion of the graduating class in medicine at McGill. The classes expressed a wish to be allowed to be present at the demonstrations. This was granted, and through Dr. Adami, Dr. Friedmann expressed his pleasure, saying that he felt much touched by this request.

Demonstration Begins. It was at 12.25 that the demonstration began, and when it ended at 12.55 seven patients had been treated. The first was that of a girl suffering from tuberculous neck glands. The other cases included a man, two women, and three girls. These cases were of varying type, but most of them were ones in which there was affection of the bones. At the conclusion of the demonstration, Dr. Harding, superintendent of the Royal Edward Institute, made a statement to a Star reporter. He explained that seven cases treated by Dr. Friedmann, represent different varieties of tuberculous disease. "Dr. Friedmann is a very skilled operator," said Dr. Harding. "He has adopted the latest methods."

"Did he use his own instruments?" was asked.

"Yes."

"It was stated in New York that the instruments used by Dr. Friedmann were altogether antiquated." Dr. Harding laughed heartily, dismissing the matter as unworthy of answer.

"Is there any ground for the criticism of Dr. Friedmann's technique?"

"No, Dr. Friedmann is a very skilled operator."

[superstrijder00]

I bet you could trend again if you expanded the platforms of the patients not patents campaign against Johnson and Johnson

i saw you were trending #3 on here and the Fear that shot through my body was. unparalleled. but i think it’s just because you made a funny tweet

Things can trend on tumblr? Oh no. That's not good. That explains all the recent asks.

THESE WINGS ARE MADE OF WAX, SWAMPCOWBOY, AND THIS COFFEE COMPANY MAY BE FLYING TOO CLOSE TO THE GODDAMNED SUN.

[ailurinae]

The ethics complaint link he mentions: https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain/media/en/gui/28704/report.html

[bumblebeerror]

Hey so. I have something I need you guys to know on this disability pride month.

TLDR: Johnson and Johnson has a patent on a drug that is effective against drug-resistant tuberculosis, a curable disease that kills many people in poorer countries. That patent runs out this august, but they have a secondary patent on the drug with an added compound that makes it work better - and are planning to use this patent to keep generic versions of this drug from being produced and distributed to poorer countries. I cannot underline enough that tuberculosis is still a massive killer and is entirely curable, but people die of it because of this patent making the medication too expensive to obtain.

John’s video this week goes more in depth, but the call to action is needed. Spread this. Know about this. Write to the company. If you care at fucking all about this, please tell someone. Johnson and Johnson needs to know that their consumers will not be turning a blind eye to them trying to squeak around this. Put the blood on their hands where it belongs. Please.

https://youtu.be/tMhgw5SW0h4 (John Green’s video about this)

[reality-detective]

A recent History Lesson 👇

Bill Gates invested a whopping $55 MILLION in BioNTech that made the Pfizer mRNA injection.

You will never believe the date that this happened...

Is this just a coincidence?

You know, the company that partnered with Pfizer to make their mRNA covid vaccine and drove Pfizer's revenue to a record $100 billion in 2022.

Well, I had a look and found something very interesting indeed. When did Bill Gates invest this large sum of money?

Turns out that it was on the 4th of September 2019.

Covid was discovered just two months later in November 2019 (at least the first time we got to hear about it).

This turned out to be very profitable for Bill Gates, his investment increasing by 10 times. The original $55 million was worth over $550 million just a few years later.

"The collaboration will fund the identification of potential HIV and tuberculosis vaccines and immunotherapy candidates in their pre-clinical development. It will further enable BioNTech to build out its infectious disease infrastructure, including platform development" - it says in the press release from BioNTech.

Guess what?

Bill Gates has also donated some $20 million to the BBC.

Now it is being reported that the BBC misrepresented the risk of covid in order to boost public support for lockdown.

In other words, the mainstream media deliberately mislead the public and scared them into supporting draconian lockdown measures, and also probably scared people into rushing to get the brand new mRNA injections.

Meanwhile Bill Gates investment grew and grew...

"One example is that they gave the impression that hospitals were being overwhelmed during the first wave. Some (mainly in London) were, but overall hospital bed occupancy was at an all-time low during that period" Professor Mark Woolhouse said.

Remember when we were told that the hospitals were completely full and we had all the dancing nurses on TikTok? Remember how some people were labelled "conspiracy theorists" for questioning this?

Turns out that the so called "conspiracy theorists" were right once again. The hospitals were not full. We were being lied to. I visited two hospitals during that time and they were empty.

Surely it is just a coincidence that Bill Gates just happened to invest large amounts of money into BioNTech just two months before covid?

In fact there was a patent for the mRNA shot before Covid. They lied about everything including the use of masks to stop the spread of an unconfirmed invisible made up virus.

I'm sure this information has already been out there by other sources. I'm just giving a reminder, the information is still available and you are free to löök this up for yourself. 🤔

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