2019

· APRIL – The Fix the Patent Laws campaign leads a protest of hundreds of people outside the Fair Pricing Forum in Johannesburg that asked the question “what is a fair price for a medicine?” Together with 64 global organisations, the campaign launched a joint statement highlighting the concerns with the WHO’s definition of a fair price.

· APRIL – The Fix the Patent Laws campaign launched a report of findings from an analysis of tuberculosis research and development (R&D) underway in South Africa. The analysis was conducted to gain greater insight into the TB innovation landscape in South Africa, the role of public financing in driving and supporting innovation, as well as expectations of public returns (I.e., affordable, user-friendly health technologies) from R&D efforts and expenditure, and strategies employed to promote public returns.