Peter Maybarduk
@maybarduk.bsky.social
Access to medicines director at Public Citizen, board at Medicines Patent Pool. Lawyer (citizen.org/access), songwriter (maybarduk.com). Maia’s dad.
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Lenacapavir could sharply cut new HIV infections.
But only if people can actually get it.
Watch this brief video from @maybarduk.bsky.social on how monopoly power is limiting access, and why World AIDS Day is the moment to demand change.
www.instagram.com/p/DRh2CUIjl-Z/
But only if people can actually get it.
Watch this brief video from @maybarduk.bsky.social on how monopoly power is limiting access, and why World AIDS Day is the moment to demand change.
www.instagram.com/p/DRh2CUIjl-Z/
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Lenacapavir could sharply cut new HIV infections.
But only if people can actually get it.
Watch this brief video from @maybarduk.bsky.social on how monopoly power is limiting access, and why World AIDS Day is the moment to demand change.
www.instagram.com/p/DRh2CUIjl-Z/
But only if people can actually get it.
Watch this brief video from @maybarduk.bsky.social on how monopoly power is limiting access, and why World AIDS Day is the moment to demand change.
www.instagram.com/p/DRh2CUIjl-Z/
LMAO
PhRMA’s long-awaited answer to anger about its prices, which cause rationing & suffering & waste tens of billions in healthcare $$$ is …
… a website.
To support DTP sales.
You would think a trillion-dollar industry that prides itself on innovation could do better.
You would be wrong.
PhRMA’s long-awaited answer to anger about its prices, which cause rationing & suffering & waste tens of billions in healthcare $$$ is …
… a website.
To support DTP sales.
You would think a trillion-dollar industry that prides itself on innovation could do better.
You would be wrong.
September 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
LMAO
PhRMA’s long-awaited answer to anger about its prices, which cause rationing & suffering & waste tens of billions in healthcare $$$ is …
… a website.
To support DTP sales.
You would think a trillion-dollar industry that prides itself on innovation could do better.
You would be wrong.
PhRMA’s long-awaited answer to anger about its prices, which cause rationing & suffering & waste tens of billions in healthcare $$$ is …
… a website.
To support DTP sales.
You would think a trillion-dollar industry that prides itself on innovation could do better.
You would be wrong.
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Thanks to health leaders Emily Bass, Mitchell Warren, Asia Russell, Amanda Banda, and Isata Dumbuya. And to our event co-hosts UNAIDS, Health GAP, People's Medicines Alliance, UAEM, Treatment Action Group, RESULTS, and Partners In Health.
September 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Thanks to health leaders Emily Bass, Mitchell Warren, Asia Russell, Amanda Banda, and Isata Dumbuya. And to our event co-hosts UNAIDS, Health GAP, People's Medicines Alliance, UAEM, Treatment Action Group, RESULTS, and Partners In Health.
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We had a critical discussion about continuing the fight to bring medicines to all, with the first step being bringing that breakthrough — at that price — to the world.
Thanks to UNAIDS' Winnie Byanyima and Unitaid's Tenu Avafia for joining us today and for your leadership.
Thanks to UNAIDS' Winnie Byanyima and Unitaid's Tenu Avafia for joining us today and for your leadership.
September 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
We had a critical discussion about continuing the fight to bring medicines to all, with the first step being bringing that breakthrough — at that price — to the world.
Thanks to UNAIDS' Winnie Byanyima and Unitaid's Tenu Avafia for joining us today and for your leadership.
Thanks to UNAIDS' Winnie Byanyima and Unitaid's Tenu Avafia for joining us today and for your leadership.
We are launching a global campaign to make long-acting HIV prevention available to everyone, everywhere.
With allies worldwide we will:
*Challenge drugmakers’ power & patents; make $40 price available to all countries
*Push for ambition from govt, funders to help 10 million+ people access PrEP LA
With allies worldwide we will:
*Challenge drugmakers’ power & patents; make $40 price available to all countries
*Push for ambition from govt, funders to help 10 million+ people access PrEP LA
This week, the world learned that a new HIV prevention drug will be available for $40/year in 120 countries by 2027.
Yet millions of people in countries with growing HIV crises still are left out.
Today, health groups came together to support access for everyone, everywhere.
Yet millions of people in countries with growing HIV crises still are left out.
Today, health groups came together to support access for everyone, everywhere.
September 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
We are launching a global campaign to make long-acting HIV prevention available to everyone, everywhere.
With allies worldwide we will:
*Challenge drugmakers’ power & patents; make $40 price available to all countries
*Push for ambition from govt, funders to help 10 million+ people access PrEP LA
With allies worldwide we will:
*Challenge drugmakers’ power & patents; make $40 price available to all countries
*Push for ambition from govt, funders to help 10 million+ people access PrEP LA
State’s Health Strategy is cover for cruelty.
While the Pentagon budget balloons to trillion+ dollars w/Trump’s vanity projects, the admin picks out critically underfunded needs of global health for slashing & blames development groups for budgetary waste.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
While the Pentagon budget balloons to trillion+ dollars w/Trump’s vanity projects, the admin picks out critically underfunded needs of global health for slashing & blames development groups for budgetary waste.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
U.S. to Cut Out Nongovernmental Groups in Refocusing Health Aid
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
State’s Health Strategy is cover for cruelty.
While the Pentagon budget balloons to trillion+ dollars w/Trump’s vanity projects, the admin picks out critically underfunded needs of global health for slashing & blames development groups for budgetary waste.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
While the Pentagon budget balloons to trillion+ dollars w/Trump’s vanity projects, the admin picks out critically underfunded needs of global health for slashing & blames development groups for budgetary waste.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
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“The discounts, rebates, and patient assistance that Gilead offers [for LEN PrEP] are based on the underlying high price. If they really wanted to broaden access, they should just lower the list price and everything else would be easier,” says @maybarduk.bsky.social. www.thebody.com/news/hiv/mor...
We Have More PrEP Options Than Ever—But Who Will Be Able To Afford Them?
HIV advocates worry the high sticker price for brand-name PrEP—including long-acting injectables—will limit access, especially as federal support wavers.
www.thebody.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
“The discounts, rebates, and patient assistance that Gilead offers [for LEN PrEP] are based on the underlying high price. If they really wanted to broaden access, they should just lower the list price and everything else would be easier,” says @maybarduk.bsky.social. www.thebody.com/news/hiv/mor...
Spoke w/ @apnews.com about HIV funding cuts & the risk of losing a threshold moment toward defeating aids, with the approval of long-acting injectables for HIV prevention.
“We could be ending AIDS. Instead, the U.S. is abandoning the fight.” - @maybarduk.bsky.social via apnews.com/article/hiv-...
The UN warns millions will die by 2029 if US funding for HIV programs isn't replaced
A new report by the U.N. AIDS agency says the sudden withdrawal of U.S. funding has caused a “systemic shock” to the global effort against AIDS and HIV.
apnews.com
July 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Spoke w/ @apnews.com about HIV funding cuts & the risk of losing a threshold moment toward defeating aids, with the approval of long-acting injectables for HIV prevention.
Join us tonight to protect health & public media, and fight rescission.
This evening there's an important webinar about the attempts to codify cuts to everything from global health to NPR: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: From UNICEF to NPR: Trump’s Cuts End Here: A Town Hall to Defend Global Health and Public Media. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email ab...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: From UNICEF to NPR: Trump’s Cuts End Here: A Town Hall to Defend Global Health and Public Media. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email ab...
us02web.zoom.us
July 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Join us tonight to protect health & public media, and fight rescission.
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The Medicaid cuts in Trump's budget bill are projected to cause more than 16,500 premature deaths ANNUALLY.
Over 1.9 MILLION people could lose access to a physician.
Over 1.3 MILLION people could go without needed medications.
Americans will die for billionaires to thrive.
Over 1.9 MILLION people could lose access to a physician.
Over 1.3 MILLION people could go without needed medications.
Americans will die for billionaires to thrive.
June 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The Medicaid cuts in Trump's budget bill are projected to cause more than 16,500 premature deaths ANNUALLY.
Over 1.9 MILLION people could lose access to a physician.
Over 1.3 MILLION people could go without needed medications.
Americans will die for billionaires to thrive.
Over 1.9 MILLION people could lose access to a physician.
Over 1.3 MILLION people could go without needed medications.
Americans will die for billionaires to thrive.
Africa has ~400x fewer MVA-BN doses per mpox case than the U.S had at the same 9-month point in the 2022-23 emergency.
That shortfall limits vax ambition & adds to suffering.
WHO just extended the mpox emergency.
But Trump's exec orders block USAID support & work w/WHO.
Some of what's needed:
That shortfall limits vax ambition & adds to suffering.
WHO just extended the mpox emergency.
But Trump's exec orders block USAID support & work w/WHO.
Some of what's needed:
June 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Africa has ~400x fewer MVA-BN doses per mpox case than the U.S had at the same 9-month point in the 2022-23 emergency.
That shortfall limits vax ambition & adds to suffering.
WHO just extended the mpox emergency.
But Trump's exec orders block USAID support & work w/WHO.
Some of what's needed:
That shortfall limits vax ambition & adds to suffering.
WHO just extended the mpox emergency.
But Trump's exec orders block USAID support & work w/WHO.
Some of what's needed:
Here’s world-class pharma jerk Bourla just casually threatening countries’ meds access if the U.S. seeks less abusive prices at home.
The only way to deal with bullies like this is stand up and fight them.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
The only way to deal with bullies like this is stand up and fight them.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
No drug price pledges by Pfizer, others in talks with US government, Pfizer CEO says
Pfizer and other drug companies have met with the Trump administration to discuss lowering U.S. drug prices but no commitments have been made, Chief Executive Albert Bourla said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Here’s world-class pharma jerk Bourla just casually threatening countries’ meds access if the U.S. seeks less abusive prices at home.
The only way to deal with bullies like this is stand up and fight them.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
The only way to deal with bullies like this is stand up and fight them.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
This is a low point.
Trump, having unconstitutionally obliterated foreign aid, asks members of Congress to bless the power he illegally took from them.
Trump’s cuts will save a rounding error, but cost America its credibility and hundreds of thousands of people their lives.
Trump, having unconstitutionally obliterated foreign aid, asks members of Congress to bless the power he illegally took from them.
Trump’s cuts will save a rounding error, but cost America its credibility and hundreds of thousands of people their lives.
The rescissions request is out. This is very real. As with reconciliation, this is filibuster-proof, meaning that there is no Senate cloture vote, and Republicans can pass it even with all Dems opposed.
The White House is calling to cut global health programs, condemning people to die.
The White House is calling to cut global health programs, condemning people to die.
June 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is a low point.
Trump, having unconstitutionally obliterated foreign aid, asks members of Congress to bless the power he illegally took from them.
Trump’s cuts will save a rounding error, but cost America its credibility and hundreds of thousands of people their lives.
Trump, having unconstitutionally obliterated foreign aid, asks members of Congress to bless the power he illegally took from them.
Trump’s cuts will save a rounding error, but cost America its credibility and hundreds of thousands of people their lives.
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🧭 MPP’s Board & observers met in Geneva this week. Grateful for their expertise and guidance 🙏 — and proud of our team’s professionalism and commitment to impact 💼🌍
#GlobalHealth #MPP #AccessToMedicines
#GlobalHealth #MPP #AccessToMedicines
May 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
🧭 MPP’s Board & observers met in Geneva this week. Grateful for their expertise and guidance 🙏 — and proud of our team’s professionalism and commitment to impact 💼🌍
#GlobalHealth #MPP #AccessToMedicines
#GlobalHealth #MPP #AccessToMedicines
Countries came together amidst scarcity to commit to a more just & healthy world. That is worth celebrating.
If the U.S. had applied these terms NIH-Moderna could have been affordable & available to rich & poor countries alike, saving hundreds of thousands of lives.
www.citizen.org/news/despite...
If the U.S. had applied these terms NIH-Moderna could have been affordable & available to rich & poor countries alike, saving hundreds of thousands of lives.
www.citizen.org/news/despite...
Despite Deadly U.S. Neglect, WHO Members Choose Health and Justice - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Member States of the World Health Organization adopted the pandemic agreement, to prepare for and respond to future disease…
www.citizen.org
May 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Countries came together amidst scarcity to commit to a more just & healthy world. That is worth celebrating.
If the U.S. had applied these terms NIH-Moderna could have been affordable & available to rich & poor countries alike, saving hundreds of thousands of lives.
www.citizen.org/news/despite...
If the U.S. had applied these terms NIH-Moderna could have been affordable & available to rich & poor countries alike, saving hundreds of thousands of lives.
www.citizen.org/news/despite...
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Our Access to Medicines Program director @maybarduk.bsky.social wrote about this in a new op-ed: www.politico.eu/article/phar...
Big Pharma is using tariffs to hold Europe to ransom
We can have a world where everyone has access to the medicines they need. But both Trump and pharma companies will push us in the opposite direction.
www.politico.eu
May 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Our Access to Medicines Program director @maybarduk.bsky.social wrote about this in a new op-ed: www.politico.eu/article/phar...
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Join PAN & FOUR PAWS at #WHA78 for The Pandemic Agreement & Beyond: International Solidarity in a Multipolar Era — Tue., May 20 — an action-oriented discussion with leading stakeholders in the pandemic agreement and IHR processes on what comes next. airtable.com/app943FMw4mw...
April 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Join PAN & FOUR PAWS at #WHA78 for The Pandemic Agreement & Beyond: International Solidarity in a Multipolar Era — Tue., May 20 — an action-oriented discussion with leading stakeholders in the pandemic agreement and IHR processes on what comes next. airtable.com/app943FMw4mw...
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Under the Impoundment Control Act (ICA), the Administration can report a rescission (a proposal to cancel funds Congress has explicitly directed to be spent) to Congress. Once reported, it's up to Congress to say yes or no.
Our representatives need to say NO.
open.substack.com/pub/ninaschw...
Our representatives need to say NO.
open.substack.com/pub/ninaschw...
Rescission: What it means for global health
Congress has agency in its response to violations of the Impoundment Control Act and appropriation bills. They need to speak up - and vote no.
open.substack.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Under the Impoundment Control Act (ICA), the Administration can report a rescission (a proposal to cancel funds Congress has explicitly directed to be spent) to Congress. Once reported, it's up to Congress to say yes or no.
Our representatives need to say NO.
open.substack.com/pub/ninaschw...
Our representatives need to say NO.
open.substack.com/pub/ninaschw...
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⏰As final negotiations approach, equity concerns remain on Technology Transfer provisions in the #PandemicAccord
🙋🏽♀️The issue? Some countries insist on use of the word "voluntary.”
🧑🏽⚖️ 30 legal experts from around the world explain why that's redundant.
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🙋🏽♀️The issue? Some countries insist on use of the word "voluntary.”
🧑🏽⚖️ 30 legal experts from around the world explain why that's redundant.
🧵
April 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
⏰As final negotiations approach, equity concerns remain on Technology Transfer provisions in the #PandemicAccord
🙋🏽♀️The issue? Some countries insist on use of the word "voluntary.”
🧑🏽⚖️ 30 legal experts from around the world explain why that's redundant.
🧵
🙋🏽♀️The issue? Some countries insist on use of the word "voluntary.”
🧑🏽⚖️ 30 legal experts from around the world explain why that's redundant.
🧵
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Here is a brief update on payment to #USAID contractors and grantees for money owed for work done through 12 February.
This case involves @hivpxresearch.bsky.social and the Global Health Council (plaintiffs) against the US Department of State and President #Trump (defendants).
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This case involves @hivpxresearch.bsky.social and the Global Health Council (plaintiffs) against the US Department of State and President #Trump (defendants).
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March 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Here is a brief update on payment to #USAID contractors and grantees for money owed for work done through 12 February.
This case involves @hivpxresearch.bsky.social and the Global Health Council (plaintiffs) against the US Department of State and President #Trump (defendants).
🧵
This case involves @hivpxresearch.bsky.social and the Global Health Council (plaintiffs) against the US Department of State and President #Trump (defendants).
🧵
March 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Outside Congress right now to save healthcare and fight Medicaid cuts — with @popdemoc.bsky.social @nationalnurses.bsky.social @seiu.org @publiccitizen.bsky.social @ppfa.org @peoplesactionparty.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Outside Congress right now to save healthcare and fight Medicaid cuts — with @popdemoc.bsky.social @nationalnurses.bsky.social @seiu.org @publiccitizen.bsky.social @ppfa.org @peoplesactionparty.bsky.social
“86% of adults overestimate $$$ spent on foreign aid, saying the U.S. spends a quarter of its budget on aid.
“After hearing foreign aid accounts for ~1% of the budget, the share who say the U.S. spends too much on aid drops >20 points from 58% to 34%.
“This pattern is consistent across partisans.”
“After hearing foreign aid accounts for ~1% of the budget, the share who say the U.S. spends too much on aid drops >20 points from 58% to 34%.
“This pattern is consistent across partisans.”
March 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
“86% of adults overestimate $$$ spent on foreign aid, saying the U.S. spends a quarter of its budget on aid.
“After hearing foreign aid accounts for ~1% of the budget, the share who say the U.S. spends too much on aid drops >20 points from 58% to 34%.
“This pattern is consistent across partisans.”
“After hearing foreign aid accounts for ~1% of the budget, the share who say the U.S. spends too much on aid drops >20 points from 58% to 34%.
“This pattern is consistent across partisans.”
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Thank you, @apoorvanyt.bsky.social for capturing this administration’s willful disregard for the lives and livelihoods affected by its reckless, process-free decision making.
SCOOP: The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to a whistle-blower from USAID.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...
U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid (Gift Article)
The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an agency whistle-blower.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Thank you, @apoorvanyt.bsky.social for capturing this administration’s willful disregard for the lives and livelihoods affected by its reckless, process-free decision making.
Big police caravan gathering now to arrest protesters staging die-in & calling on Congress to save PEPFAR
February 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Big police caravan gathering now to arrest protesters staging die-in & calling on Congress to save PEPFAR