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ITPC is an issue-based global organization working to achieve health and social justice for all through robust community engagement.
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ITPC Global @itpc.bsky.social · Jan 27
✊We dare you to find a problem that can't be solved by communities #CLM #CommunitiesAreExperts
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How did 2025 US funding cuts affect #HIV diagnostic services?

This #CLM project was designed to monitor whether health facilities followed WHO or national guidelines & to assess long standing systemic challenges.

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Community Data in Action: Community-Led Monitoring to Improve HIV Diagnostic & Laboratory Services - ITPC Global
To provide insight about the impact of US funding cuts and inform advocacy to improve access to and quality of HIV diagnostic and laboratory services, the International Treatment Preparedness Coalitio...
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February 18, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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⚡💊TNP+ Wins Landmark Patent Opposition against Unlawful HCV Treatment Patent

Learn more 👉https://makemedicinesaffordable.org/tnp-wins-landmark-patent-opposition-against-unlawful-hcv-treatment-patent/

#MakeMedicinesAffordable
February 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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HEAR CSO brings civil society & communities impacted by health inequities together to develop a shared & equitable future for global health architecture.

Make your voice heard 🖋️ bit.ly/4sO3Duv

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February 15, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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📢 WEBINAR: Join ASLM Laboratory Systems Strengthening Community of Practice & ITPC Global for a LabCoP ECHO session on protecting HIV diagnostic services in times of crisis.

📅Thurs | 12 February | 4:00 PM EAT

🔗Register us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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February 11, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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📢Join ASLM LabCoP + ITPC Global for an ECHO session on how communities are protecting HIV diagnostics in times of crisis.

📅12 Feb | 4PM EAT
CLM, funding gaps, access to testing & care

Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#HIV #CLM #GlobalHealth
February 9, 2026 at 6:52 AM
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We're inviting civil society organizations and diverse community members worldwide to share priorities in the #HEARCSO Global Survey. Take 10–15 minutes to contribute and directly shape civil society advocacy tools, analysis, and demands in 2026.

Take the survey now → ee.kobotoolbox.org/i/81Mxi3sI
January 26, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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HEAR CSO brings civil society & communities impacted by health inequities together to develop a shared & equitable future for global health architecture.

Make your voice heard 🖋️ bit.ly/4sO3Duv

@wacihealth.bsky.social @gfadvocates.bsky.social @gnpplus.bsky.social
February 4, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Prevention doesn’t fail because people don’t care. It fails when systems don’t fit real lives.

- @solangebap.bsky.social opening remarks at the Gates HIV prevention meeting in Istanbul highlighted why community voices, accountability & real system design matter more than ever.
January 29, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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📢Calling civil society orgs & community voices

Share your priorities in the HEAR CSO Global Survey (10–15 min) to help shape civil society advocacy, analysis & demands for 2026.

👉 ee.kobotoolbox.org/i/81Mxi3sI

Please share widely. Your voice matters!
January 28, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Now available 📢 A Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention & Response (PPPR) 101 Workshop Toolkit

This is a full set of all the info you need to run a workshop for your community to learn about PPPR & develop your CLM-PPPR project.

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A Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention & Response (PPPR) 101 Workshop Toolkit - ITPC Global
A PPPR 101 Workshop Toolkit, is a full set of all the information you need to run a workshop for your community to learn about PPPR and develop your CLM-PPPR project.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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ITPC strategic partner @unitaid.bsky.social recently published their climate action roadmap to 2035, setting an example for the wider global health community & showing that climate and health must be tackled together.

Read the full report here 👉 unitaid.org/uploads/Clim...

#Sustainability
January 22, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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WEBINAR 📢 Join the Health Architecture Reimagined Civil Society Organization Consortium (HEAR CSO)

📆 January 22 at 09:00 EST, 14:00 GMT, 15:00 CET, 16:00 SAST, 17:00 EAT

🔗Register here us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: HEAR CSO Update: Civil Society Priorities for Global Health Architecture Reform. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the ...
Thank you for your interest in this Health Architecture Reimagined – Civil Society Organisations (HEAR-CSO) update webinar. HEAR-CSO is a civil society–led initiative bringing together perspectives f...
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January 22, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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What do USAID cuts really mean for South Africa’s HIV response?

🎙️ Tracy Swan speaks with Dr François Venter (Ezintsha at Wits) about stalled programmes, clinic closures, prevention gaps & why treatment + prevention must go together.

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The Fallout from  USAID Cuts: HIV Prevention & Treatment Crisis in South Africa
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January 16, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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⚡Kenya’s ratification of the #UAE trade deal includes TRIPS-plus rules that could delay affordable generics, weaken local production & hike medicine costs, impacting the right to health.

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#MakeMedicinesAffordable #KELIN
January 15, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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Indonesian treatment access groups, incl. the Indonesia AIDS Coalition, are challenging the new Patent Law at the Constitutional Court. They warn it could enable patent evergreening, blocking affordable generics and access to life-saving medicines.

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Civil Society Challenges the New Patent Law at the Indonesian Constitutional Court - Make Medicines Affordable
Civil society groups in Indonesia are challenging the new Patent Law, warning it risks higher medicine prices by enabling patent evergreening and restricting access to generics.
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January 12, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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We're hiring! ITPC is looking for remote consultants. Deadline 19 Jan 2026.

📌Strategic Business Development & Institutional Partnerships Consultant
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📌Impact Evaluation & Strategic Planning Support Consultant
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January 7, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Everyone’s talking about AI in 2025. In July, ITPC’s Solange Baptiste Simon joined A Shot in the Arm to discuss community-led monitoring, ethical AI, and building a unified African health agenda.

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Communities Deploy AI to Expand Affordable Healthcare with Solange Baptiste Head of ITPC
YouTube video by A Shot in the Arm Podcast (shotarmpodcast)
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December 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Controlling the #HIV epidemic means moving from fragmented, donor-led programmes to nationally led, integrated systems. This episode explores funding shocks, real community power & health equity in HIV prevention in Africa.

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Solange Baptiste, Charles Holmes, and Kenneth Ngure on sustainable HIV prevention in Africa
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December 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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“If we are serious about building resilient systems for health, climate adaptation & future pandemics, we must move beyond symbolic recognition of community systems & begin structurally investing in them.” - @solangebap.bsky.social, Executive Director, ITPC Global.

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December 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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🎙️Breakthroughs mean nothing without access. In Ep 14 of The HIV Cure Podcast, @solangebap.bsky.social unpacks how innovations like long-acting Lenacapavir risk leaving communities behind and why equity, patents & advocacy matter.

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Ep 14: Science Without Access: Will History Repeat Itself? | The HIV Cure Podcast | Solange Baptiste
YouTube video by Sekgabo Seselamarumo
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December 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Meaningful HIV prevention happens when communities lead. In the latest issue of The Lancet HIV, @solangebap.bsky.social along with industry peers, push toward models that are more inclusive, better resourced, and grounded in lived realities.

Read more here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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ITPC launched the White Coat Campaign in 2024 to reaffirm that communities are experts. We wear white coats to challenge the idea that communities are a drain on the system, and to remind people that communities bring data and solutions to the problems that we’re facing.
December 1, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Qatar, Saudi Arabia & Kuwait have been essential partner of the Global Fund. For the Eight Replenishment, we hope that they will come back to renew and expand their commitment. The Global Fund is smart solidarity. #StopAtNothing

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GFAN - The Global Fund is Smart Solidarity
YouTube video by Global Fund Advocates Network
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November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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NEWS: GPIN & Club de Madrid have welcomed the announcement of the South Africa-led Ubuntu Commission that will “encourage research and informed dialogue on global public challenges & on global public investments.”

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#G20SouthAfrica
The Global Public Investment Network and Club de Madrid welcome the South Africa-led Ubuntu Commission on global public challenges and on global public investments - Global Public Investment
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November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Vietnam has revoked most of J&J’s patent claims on the TB drug bedaquiline which is a major win for affordable treatment and against patent evergreening. J&J has 90 days to appeal. Lives must come before profits.

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MMA Partner Celebrates Milestone in Opposing Evergreening of TB Drug Patents in Vietnam - Make Medicines Affordable
Make Medicines Affordable (MMA) campaign and its partner Vietnam’s Network of People Living With HIV (VNP+), are celebrating a partial invalidation of Janssen Pharmaceutical’s (J&J) attempts to extend...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM