From confronting 30 years of TRIPS impact to honoring the legacy of fearless activists, this year’s summit in Marrakech brought powerful voices together to challenge injustice and reimagine access to medicines.
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✊💊 #GSIPA2M2025 Day 2 highlights of the third Global Summit on Intellectual Property & Access to Medicines in Marrakech under the theme TRIPS@30: The Access Crisis
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✊💊 #GSIPA2M2025 Day 1 highlights of the third Global Summit on Intellectual Property & Access to Medicines in Marrakech under the theme TRIPS@30: The Access Crisis
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We've been focusing on the things that people living with HIV might need right now, like how to deal with ART shortages and stockouts. #GSIPA2M2025
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People dying & new infections due to aid cuts and pharma companies are silent despite making billions on selling ARVs.
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On the suspension of aid impacting more than just health and is undermining trading partners' credibility #GSIPA2M2025
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Loon Gangte on cuts to global health funding for advocacy: “Lack of money should not be our excuse. We need to adapt! Funding was never the reason we started our organizations or our own activist journeys. Focus on the goal!” #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social @omellouk.bsky.social
Wisdom from #AllanMaleche from #KELIN Kenya on “How We Win: Power, Vision, & Action”: Set a bold rights agenda; Organize across borders; Use all tools; Reconnect locally; Build alliances beyond health. #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social @solangebap.bsky.social @omellouk.bsky.social
Day 3 of #GSIPA2M2025 - confronting challenging circumstances and building community @itpc.bsky.social @solangebap.bsky.social
Kicking off Day 2 of the Global Summit on IP and Access to Medicines with a sobering panel on the upheaval in the global financial architecture for health. @nadrafif.bsky.social asks: time for transformation, rather than tinkering? #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social
Our Executive Director, @solangebap.bsky.social opened the #GSIPA2M2025 Summit in Marrakech on 13 May 2025, 30 years after the TRIPS Agreement was born in the same city.
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✊💊On 12 May activists from 24 Low & Middle Income Countries participated in the pre-GSIPA2M Law Reform Capacity Building Workshop in Marrakech, to promote policy coherence between Intellectual Property laws & access to medicines for all. #GSIPA2M2025 #TreatPeopleRight
Powerful remarks by @solangebap.bsky.social opening today's Global Summit on Intellectual Property & Access to Medicines in Marrakesh #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social @omellouk.bsky.social @nadrafif.bsky.social @charlene-omrawo.bsky.social
Prof. Sudip Chaudhuri, Professor (Retd) Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta: “Many good things happen not because of TRIPS, but in spite of TRIPS.” #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social
“Systems never rewrite the rules in favor of the oppressed unless they are forced to.” @omellouk.bsky.social on this moment of transformation. “TRIPS is 30 but our struggle is ageless.” #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social
Prof. Mohammed El Said: “Reflecting on 30 years of TRIPS agreements seems to be a drop in the ocean when we are meeting in a 1,000-year-old city… which is actually a young city for the region!” #GSIPA2M2025 @omellouk.bsky.social @itpc.bsky.social
Loon Gangte on what got him started in the access to medicines and IP movement: “A burning candle doesn’t help the friends I’ve lost to drug use. I must DO something!” And a call to action: “Our goal is life! Human life. We need to stand up and fight back.” #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social
“We are not sure what’s next. Our organizations are closing down. Poverty and politics are interfering with our lives… I never thought that after 24 years of fighting, I would need to be fighting this hard again.” Sibongile Tshabalala, TAC, on cuts to HIV response #GSIPA2M2025
@solangebap.bsky.social not holding back in her opening remarks. “Polite asks and policy tweaks don’t cut it anymore.” “We cannot innovate our way out of injustice. We have to dismantle the systems that lead to injustice in the first place.” #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social @omellouk.bsky.social
Join me for updates from the Global Summit on Intellectual Property & Access to Medicines in Marrakesh, Morocco! Opening remarks by @omellouk.bsky.social @itpc.bsky.social #GSIPA2M2025
