Webinar recording: Time for $5 Campaign: Advocating for affordable GeneXpert tests and plans for the High-Level Meeting on TB
Ahead of the High-Level Meeting on TB, Médecins Sans Frontières conducted a webinar on 8 September 2023 to provide information about the next phase of the Time for $5 Campaign, calling on the diagnostics company Cepheid and its parent corporation Danaher to reduce the price of the GeneXpert test cartridge to $5.
Full webinar recording can be accessed here.
On 12 September 2023, Médecins Sans Frontières and partners also launched a campaign and 10-day countdown to the High-Level Meeting on TB, calling on diagnostics company Cepheid and its parent corporation Danaher to drop the price of GeneXpert cartridge from $10-20 to $5. The campaign also calls on Johnson & Johnson not to enforce any ‘secondary’ patents for lifesaving TB drug bedaquiline in any country with a high burden of TB.
The campaign communications package can be accessed here. Some additional materials can be accessed here. More information is available on the Time for $5 Campaign page. See also John Green’s video with a very special message for the targeted corporations.
