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Pharma-Funded Democrats Are Opposing a Crucial Drug-Pricing Plan
If they vote with conservatives, they are conservatives.
Pfizer and Moderna Hike EU Vaccine Prices as Rich Countries Oppose Patent Waiver
The two companies are already expected to rake in tens of billions of dollars this year from vaccine sales.
Biden Faces Growing Pressure to Force Big Pharma to Share Vaccine Recipes
The U.S. government owns the patent for critical spike-protein technology utilized in the development of COVID vaccines.
Pfizer Is Upholding Global Vaccine Apartheid. Today We Risk Arrest to Stop It.
Billions of people still haven’t received their first dose due to their inability to access a COVID vaccine.
Big Pharma Firms Spend More on Executive Pay and Dividends Than on Research
One company, Novo Nordisk, spent twice as much on executive pay and buying back its own stock as it did on research.
Activism Made AIDS Treatment More Accessible — That’s What It’ll Take for COVID
AIDS researcher Sam Friedman discusses the lessons learned from the movement to lower prices for vital AIDS treatments.
The World Trade Organization Is Threatening Vaccine Equity and Climate Goals
A 1994 WTO agreement has enabled a few large companies to control most of the intellectual property rights in the world.
Pharma Giant Funds Ads Attacking Drug Bill After Hiking Prices Up to 470 Percent
The dark money-funded ads attack legislation that would lower prescription drug costs.
How to Fight Big Pharma — and Win
A look inside the U.S. campaign for a WTO waiver of pharmaceutical monopolies for COVID-19.
Pharma-Backed Dark Money Group Attacks House Democrats’ Lower Drug Pricing Plan
The American Action Network is pouring millions into a TV, digital advertising and phone campaign attacking H.R. 3.