Shailly Gupta
@shaillygupta.bsky.social
Senior Communications Advisor, MSF Access Campaign. Avid follower of intellectual property and pro-access news. Believer of #ClaimingRightsNotCharity. Opinions are mine and doesn't represent my employer.
The use of compulsory licenses by high-income countries to gain access to medicines increased considerably over a recent 10-year period, mostly for treatments of noncommunicable diseases such as cancer and cystic fibrosis, along with Covid-19, a new study found.
More high-income countries have used compulsory licenses to gain access to meds, study finds
More high-income countries have used compulsory licenses to gain access to meds, study finds.
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January 29, 2026 at 3:38 PM
The use of compulsory licenses by high-income countries to gain access to medicines increased considerably over a recent 10-year period, mostly for treatments of noncommunicable diseases such as cancer and cystic fibrosis, along with Covid-19, a new study found.
Modelling scientists at Wits University have calculated that if enough people — between 1-2 million per year — take LEN just once, new infections would decline fast enough so that South Africa can end #AIDS as a public health threat by 2043. #IDSky
The anti-HIV jab Buhle trusts — and 456 000 South Africans can soon get for free - Bhekisisa
For the past three years, Buhle Sikade, 22, has been using an injection that gives her almost foolproof protection against getting HIV through sex — medicine that around 456 000 other HIV-negative peo...
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January 29, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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One year later, MSF is witnessing the human cost of decisions that have upended aid programmes worldwide where #FundingCuts are restricting access to basic healthcare, vaccines, nutrition, epidemic control tools, and support for marginalised populations. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/how-u...
How US policies are reshaping global health and humanitarian aid, one year later
We are witnessing the human costs of actions upending aid programs around the world
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January 21, 2026 at 2:29 PM
One year later, MSF is witnessing the human cost of decisions that have upended aid programmes worldwide where #FundingCuts are restricting access to basic healthcare, vaccines, nutrition, epidemic control tools, and support for marginalised populations. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/how-u...
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Why is #insulin, an essential and lifesaving medication that’s existed for over 100 years, still priced, patented, and distributed like a 💎luxury good💎?
Listen as our advocacy advisor, Candice Sehoma, unpacks it on this #podcast episode: open.spotify.com/episode/6p39...
Listen as our advocacy advisor, Candice Sehoma, unpacks it on this #podcast episode: open.spotify.com/episode/6p39...
Diabetes, Dollars, and Power: The Fight For Affordable Insulin.
Spotify video
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January 16, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Why is #insulin, an essential and lifesaving medication that’s existed for over 100 years, still priced, patented, and distributed like a 💎luxury good💎?
Listen as our advocacy advisor, Candice Sehoma, unpacks it on this #podcast episode: open.spotify.com/episode/6p39...
Listen as our advocacy advisor, Candice Sehoma, unpacks it on this #podcast episode: open.spotify.com/episode/6p39...
Few people have heard of Happi and Sabeti, yet they not only run a virus detection network to stop the next deadly pandemic but are also breaking down inequity between Africa and the global north by empowering African scientists to improve African lives. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Meet Dr Happi. With $100m and a steely determination could he save the world from the next pandemic?
The Cameroonian professor made the Time most influential list in 2025 and saw the project he co-founded receive $100m for its virus detection work. Now he is on a mission to transform Africa’s genomic...
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December 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Few people have heard of Happi and Sabeti, yet they not only run a virus detection network to stop the next deadly pandemic but are also breaking down inequity between Africa and the global north by empowering African scientists to improve African lives. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
CSOs continue to call for equitable access at every platform possible.
Today, 11 CSO sent a letter to MEPs: the Critical Medicines Act must put people first. We urge them to strengthen joint procurement to improve affordability and availability, guarantee a public return on public investment, and align EU pharmaceutical policy with global health commitments.
December 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
CSOs continue to call for equitable access at every platform possible.
Message was loud and clear: Don't forget kids affected with tuberculosis! Nearly half of all children with TB are not diagnosed, which means they miss out on access to the lifesaving treatment.
On World Children’s Day (20 Nov 2025), TB activists and MSF marched in solidarity with children affected by tuberculosis at the Union World Conference on Lung Health in Copenhagen. To learn more about MSF’s work and engagement on TB in children, visit: www.msf.org/tactic-tuber...
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Message was loud and clear: Don't forget kids affected with tuberculosis! Nearly half of all children with TB are not diagnosed, which means they miss out on access to the lifesaving treatment.
Wow very very innovative protest!
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Wow very very innovative protest!
At a session on TB in children, Aman Shukla from YOUNITE Global said that statistics will not change much in future if the community engagement continue to reduce in absence of funding and support #TBSky
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
At a session on TB in children, Aman Shukla from YOUNITE Global said that statistics will not change much in future if the community engagement continue to reduce in absence of funding and support #TBSky
Some good examples of countries providing TB treatment and care to refugees and migrants
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Some good examples of countries providing TB treatment and care to refugees and migrants
Very impressive work being done by IOM to support people with TB on the move
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Very impressive work being done by IOM to support people with TB on the move
Joanna Ladomirska from MSF presenting on TB in migrants. MSF supporting TB treatment and care in Poland to refugees from Ukraine managed to establish linkages and care in countries where these people moved. See map behind her.
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Joanna Ladomirska from MSF presenting on TB in migrants. MSF supporting TB treatment and care in Poland to refugees from Ukraine managed to establish linkages and care in countries where these people moved. See map behind her.
John Green talks about economic injustice when it comes to tuberculosis. Progress is made but it’s not reaching to the people who most need it. #UnionConf #TBSky
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
John Green talks about economic injustice when it comes to tuberculosis. Progress is made but it’s not reaching to the people who most need it. #UnionConf #TBSky
« I thought I was the next one to go down after my best friend died of TB. » said Henry, TB survivor from Sierra Leone and protagonist of John Green’s book ´Everything is TB’. He is at the TB Union Conference today at the plenary sharing his experience of undergoing TB treatment.
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
« I thought I was the next one to go down after my best friend died of TB. » said Henry, TB survivor from Sierra Leone and protagonist of John Green’s book ´Everything is TB’. He is at the TB Union Conference today at the plenary sharing his experience of undergoing TB treatment.
Beautiful takeaways on where panelists find hope: when one person with TB gets cured, community movement supporting people who need care, people speaking out about TB , every mother having info about TB, every child with TB getting diagnosed and treated, every person with TB treated as human being.
November 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Beautiful takeaways on where panelists find hope: when one person with TB gets cured, community movement supporting people who need care, people speaking out about TB , every mother having info about TB, every child with TB getting diagnosed and treated, every person with TB treated as human being.
Happening Now!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBqQ...
Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
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November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Happening Now!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBqQ...
With a shocking 43% of the children with TB continue to miss diagnosis and hence the treatment in 2024, its time for governments to act now to reduce this deadly gap. Join us for a discussion on improving access to care for children affected with TB www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBqQ... #IDSky #TBSky
Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
With a shocking 43% of the children with TB continue to miss diagnosis and hence the treatment in 2024, its time for governments to act now to reduce this deadly gap. Join us for a discussion on improving access to care for children affected with TB www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBqQ... #IDSky #TBSky
Arm twisting by the US government is going to another extreme by tying funding aid to the condition of pathogen sharing. While this sharing will not be attached to condition to access medical tools that are developed from the pathogen information that countries would share.
EXCLUSIVE: US Ties Global Health Aid To Data Sharing On Pathogens – Undermining WHO Talks - Health Policy Watch
The United States (US) aims to compel countries that receive its aid to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria to share all information about “pathogens with
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November 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Arm twisting by the US government is going to another extreme by tying funding aid to the condition of pathogen sharing. While this sharing will not be attached to condition to access medical tools that are developed from the pathogen information that countries would share.
Proud proud proud ! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/w...
With ‘a Billion’ Eyes on Them, India’s Women Lift Cricket World Cup
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November 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Proud proud proud ! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/w...
Don’t miss this webinar if you are keen to know why TB in children is a big problem despite advancements in diagnosis and treatment for TB. #IDSky #TBSky
Every child withTB deserves a healthy childhood. Yet in 2023, 1.25M fell ill with TB and nearly half were never diagnosed, thus never treated.
Join our webinar moderated by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social where survivors and treatment providers will discuss how to close these deadly gaps.
Join our webinar moderated by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social where survivors and treatment providers will discuss how to close these deadly gaps.
October 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Ritshidze, the world’s largest community-led monitoring system, is in jeopardy following the cuts to U.S development aid announced in January.
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Who Will Watch The Clinics Now? Ritshidze Forced To Shrink After US Aid Cuts
Drastic measures had to be taken to avoid the total collapse of the community-led monitoring programme.
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October 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Ritshidze, the world’s largest community-led monitoring system, is in jeopardy following the cuts to U.S development aid announced in January.
health-e.org.za/2025/10/23/w...
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More on funding cuts impact healthpolicy-watch.news/malaria-resu...
Malaria Resurgence Could Kill Nearly One Million By 2030 As Funding Cuts Hit - Health Policy Watch
BERLIN – The head of the world's largest malaria funder has issued a stark warning that the disease now poses a greater threat than HIV or tuberculosis, as a
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October 23, 2025 at 5:52 AM
More on funding cuts impact healthpolicy-watch.news/malaria-resu...
Yet another starting example highlighting that countries and communities continue to suffer as foreign aid depletes, first with US cuts and then by other developed countries. Thanks for your relentless reporting on this topic @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...
A Somali Hospital Closed After U.S. Aid Cuts. Fired Employees Reopened It Without Pay.
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October 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Yet another starting example highlighting that countries and communities continue to suffer as foreign aid depletes, first with US cuts and then by other developed countries. Thanks for your relentless reporting on this topic @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...