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Must Read:
'A new HIV prevention jab could end AIDS – unless secrecy and greed get in the way'
Via: @SpotlightNSP
Link:
spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/09/0…
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Health Justice Initiative - HJI retweeted
Jun 12
💊 Medicines save lives, but millions still cannot access them.
🌍 Access to essential medicines is a human rights imperative.
At yesterday’s #TeamEurope & @TheLancet Commission seminar in Brussels, we reaffirmed the need for stronger partnerships and collective action to achieve health for all.
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Health Justice Initiative - HJI retweeted
CONGRATULATIONS FATIMA! 🎉
Fatima is reimagining access to life-saving medicine by challenging the systems that treat essential healthcare as a privilege rather than a human right.
Read: ashoka.org/en-us/fellow
#AshokaFellow
#EveryoneAChangemaker
#AshokaAfrica
@AshokaAfrica
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Watch:
@_HassanF HJI Director on @SABCNews unpacking Gilead's self-created scarcity and the allocation of doses in the national LEN-LA roll out.
#lenacapavir
WATCH | South African human rights lawyer Fatima Hassan says a small number of people and areas have been targeted for the circulation of the first batch of the HIV prevention injection Lenacapavir.
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The President should challenge Gilead's monopoly power and self created scarcity.
Here is why:
healthjusticeinitiative.org.…
💉The rollout of the Lenacapavir injection marks a major milestone in South Africa’s fight against HIV and the prevention of new infections.
🤝 Together, government, civil society, the private sector, and development partners are working towards a shared goal: ending HIV as a public health threat and building a healthier future for all.
#Lenacapavir4HIVPrevention #Lenacapavir #GovZAUpdates
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Health Justice Initiative - HJI retweeted
Jun 4
We did the work, we don't get enough of the drug, nor on time.
READ more here- we are being asked to prematurely celebrate scarcity and pharma control over lenacapavir -
@asia_ilse @tianjohnson
4 June 2026, Thursday
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Launch of Lenacapavir in South Africa for HIV prevention:
South Africa Helped Create Lenacapavir, Gilead Should Not Decide Who Gets It
– SA Civil Society Groups
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Launch of Lenacapavir in South Africa for HIV prevention:
South Africa Helped Create Lenacapavir, Gilead Should Not Decide Who Gets It
– SA Civil Society Groups
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Health Justice Initiative - HJI retweeted
Apr 20
[OPINION] South Africa’s first batch of lenacapavir has arrived. The country is expecting to get the HIV prevention jab to around 450,000 people over the next two years.
But in a country still seeing hundreds of new infections daily, founder of @Afri_Alliance, @tianjohnson and founder of @HealthJusticeIn, Fatima Hassan say it is not enough.
Access will be limited to 300 clinics across 23 districts. That means where you live could decide if you get it.
"Viruses simply do not respect municipal boundaries".
Read more: health-e.org.za/2026/04/20/m… #healthnews
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Health Justice Initiative - HJI retweeted
Apr 21
[OPINION] South Africa may be doing the work to produce lenacapavir, but it does not control the key decisions, including pricing, supply, and rollout speed.
Plans to manufacture the drug locally are also still in early stages and depend on licence approval from Gilead Sciences.
Founder of @Afri_Alliance, @tianjohnson and founder of @HealthJusticeIn, Fatima Hassan say the gap between promise and delivery remains wide.
Read more: health-e.org.za/2026/04/21/w… #healthnews
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Health Justice Initiative - HJI retweeted
20 Nov 2025
Major local & global health justice orgs call on @GovernmentZA to take steps to issue a compulsory license for #lenacapavir. Compulsory licenses are a legal @wto tool used in public health emergencies. It would temporarily bypass @GileadSciences patent in exchange for a fair royalty. africanalliance.org.za/wp-co…
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Health Justice Initiative - HJI retweeted
21 Nov 2025
South Africa May Be Excluded From Future US #PEPFAR Grants for #HIV Amid Political Row, writes @kerrycullinan11
@HealthZA
@HealthJusticeIn
@HealthGap
@TAC
healthpolicy-watch.news/sout…
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Health Justice Initiative - HJI retweeted
25 Nov 2025
⏰The US has not engaged South Africa on the future of its @PEPFAR HIV grant — and says it won’t supply lenacapavir amid a widening political rift.
Millions could be affected as the world’s largest HIV population faces uncertainty.
📰➡️healthpolicy-watch.news/sout…
✍️@kerrycullinan11
@GlobalFund @GileadSciences
@HealthJusticeIn @HealthGAP @HealthZA
@Foster_Mohale @SikazweZuzu @_HassanF @SibongileTsha14 @CyrilRamaphosa @AfricaMediaHub
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Health Justice Initiative - HJI retweeted
18 Nov 2025
💜One Day. One Message: Without Women, South Africa Stops.
On 21 November, HJI will join the #WomensShutdown to demand that GBV and femicide be declared a National Disaster.
We call on leaders, institutions, and communities to act in solidarity with us.
#EndGBV #WomensShutdown
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Health Justice Initiative - HJI retweeted
18 Sep 2025
The lesson from history is clear: When lifesaving HIV treatment was delayed, millions died needlessly. We cannot afford the same mistake with HIV prevention, write Fatima Hassan, Leena Menghaney, and Bellinda Nkoana. @HealthJusticeIn
spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/09/0…
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10 Sep 2025
🎧 Listen in🎧
Our HJI - @Radio702 Interview this morning on LEN-LA:
'New HIV Prevention injection shows promising results - Breakfast with Bongani Bingwa'
- Omny.fm
share.google/teKMagGVXgTaDAq…
#LENLA4ALL
#GILEAD
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Health Justice Initiative - HJI retweeted
9 Sep 2025
If international actors are serious about equitable access, then price transparency must be non-negotiable.
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Health Justice Initiative - HJI retweeted
Must Read:
'A new HIV prevention jab could end AIDS – unless secrecy and greed get in the way'
Via: @SpotlightNSP
Link:
spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/09/0…
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