I keep crying out of nowhere. What a good day to support @MSF, @PIH, and all the global health orgs and activists who've been fighting for tuberculosis treatment access for decades. These people are my heroes, and today I'll be making donations in honor of TB survivors around the world. PIH: pih.org/?form=donate MSF: msf.org/donate

Very encouraging development with @StopTB . @JNJnews still needs to publicly: commit to patent non-enforcement and withdrawal, commit to the deal with GDF in perpetuity, and provide the list of countries that can access generic bedaquiline thru this deal.

Global Drug Facility Update on Access to Bedaquiline stoptb.org/news/global-drug-…

It is false to suggest—as some recently have—that our patents are being used to prevent access to SIRTURO® (bedaquiline), our medicine for MDR-TB. In fact, we have already entered into a collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (“GDF”)—the largest procurer of TB medicines—which enables them to invite potential generic suppliers and purchase generic versions of SIRTURO® 100mg. On April 5, during a World Health Organization meeting, the GDF shared its intent to launch a tender for generic versions of SIRTURO® 100mg in the third quarter of 2023: social.jnj.com/3XSgjRZ In addition, we have shipped more than 660,000 courses of SIRTURO® to 159 countries since launch. Our patents made this possible, enabling us to assist countries to scale-up their use of our medicine responsibly and sustainably and invest in multiple, critical, anti-TB efforts. For instance, in the face of rising drug resistance, we support stewardship efforts that ensure MDR-TB patients can benefit from our medicine today and in the future. Unfortunately, the most significant barrier to treatment access for patients today is the fact that millions of patients with TB go undiagnosed every year. This is a challenge that we have invested significant resources to overcome and must all get behind if we are to achieve the global goal of ending TB.

20% of the way into #girlsoflittlehope by @beckbessinger and @JoeyHiFi and so far it is 🔥🔥🔥 The teenage girlie vibes have transported me back to my own neon green and purple bedroom, and for some reason I suddenly feel like I must locate a pair of rip-off converse to draw on? Also, I don’t know what happened in those woods yet, but 😰

Suggest me horror books! Nothing too extreme, preferably supernatural or folk horror. Go wild!