Jaime Manzano
@jaimemanzano.bsky.social
Global health ; pharmaceutical policy ; health equity ; migration policy
Research and advocacy manager at https://saludporderecho.org/quienes-somos/
Research and advocacy manager at https://saludporderecho.org/quienes-somos/
France is killing it - net price transparency now, ammendment tabled and adopted ! @healthlawadamh.bsky.social @mattherder.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
France is killing it - net price transparency now, ammendment tabled and adopted ! @healthlawadamh.bsky.social @mattherder.bsky.social
"Although WHO prequalification of the RSVpreF vaccine single-dose vial marked a turning point for global #RSV prevention, [preQ] for mAbs might be challenging at the current expected procurement price, as high cost restricts financing support" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #MedSky
The path to equitable respiratory syncytial virus prevention for infants: challenges and opportunities for global implementation
The approval for a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) maternal vaccination programme
by Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, marks substantial progress toward equitable access,
with important work still to come...
www.thelancet.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"Although WHO prequalification of the RSVpreF vaccine single-dose vial marked a turning point for global #RSV prevention, [preQ] for mAbs might be challenging at the current expected procurement price, as high cost restricts financing support" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #MedSky
But no earmarked funding yet available for #tuberculosis vaccine procurement (and an existing TB funding gap of US$16.3 billion in 2024) iris.who.int/server/api/c...
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
But no earmarked funding yet available for #tuberculosis vaccine procurement (and an existing TB funding gap of US$16.3 billion in 2024) iris.who.int/server/api/c...
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Arm twisting by the US government is going to another extreme by tying funding aid to the condition of pathogen sharing. While this sharing will not be attached to condition to access medical tools that are developed from the pathogen information that countries would share.
EXCLUSIVE: US Ties Global Health Aid To Data Sharing On Pathogens – Undermining WHO Talks - Health Policy Watch
The United States (US) aims to compel countries that receive its aid to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria to share all information about “pathogens with
healthpolicy-watch.news
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Arm twisting by the US government is going to another extreme by tying funding aid to the condition of pathogen sharing. While this sharing will not be attached to condition to access medical tools that are developed from the pathogen information that countries would share.
Important development in France for those following #pharma #transparency.
Socialist MPs have proposed an amendment to the 2026 Social Security Financing Bill that could redefine transparency in how medicines are financed and priced. /1🧵 www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/amend...
Socialist MPs have proposed an amendment to the 2026 Social Security Financing Bill that could redefine transparency in how medicines are financed and priced. /1🧵 www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/amend...
Projet de loi de financement de la sécurité sociale pour 2026 (no 1907) Amendement n°AS118
www.assemblee-nationale.fr
November 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Important development in France for those following #pharma #transparency.
Socialist MPs have proposed an amendment to the 2026 Social Security Financing Bill that could redefine transparency in how medicines are financed and priced. /1🧵 www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/amend...
Socialist MPs have proposed an amendment to the 2026 Social Security Financing Bill that could redefine transparency in how medicines are financed and priced. /1🧵 www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/amend...
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A new study @fr.publiceye.ch shows Roche’s patent "evergreening" strategy for its HER2+ breast cancer drugs (Herceptin & Co), enabling it to rake in >CHF 156 bn & hinder timely access to affordable biosimilars until 2042.
👉 Time for 🇨🇭 to act against patent thickets www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/ph...
👉 Time for 🇨🇭 to act against patent thickets www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/ph...
Abusive pharma patents: Roche’s “mAb” empire
An exclusive tally of Roche’s patent portfolio for its four monoclonal antibodies (“mAb”) treatments for breast cancer shows that, 27 years after the first product hit the market, about 100 patents st...
www.publiceye.ch
November 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
A new study @fr.publiceye.ch shows Roche’s patent "evergreening" strategy for its HER2+ breast cancer drugs (Herceptin & Co), enabling it to rake in >CHF 156 bn & hinder timely access to affordable biosimilars until 2042.
👉 Time for 🇨🇭 to act against patent thickets www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/ph...
👉 Time for 🇨🇭 to act against patent thickets www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/ph...
"Into the breach a clamor for the financialization of the global health industry resounds. Speculative finance is gaining ground. [...] What will investors buy? What is their loss tolerance? Left behind are the most important questions: Are lives being saved? Are people getting healthier?"
Interesting piece: "Beware the financialization of the global health industry - Complex banking instruments designed to generate money can’t make up for global health shortfalls"
www.statnews.com/2025/11/05/f...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/05/f...
Beware the financialization of the global health industry
Beware of financialization when it is code for “money making money on health,” S.L. Erikson warns.
www.statnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
"Into the breach a clamor for the financialization of the global health industry resounds. Speculative finance is gaining ground. [...] What will investors buy? What is their loss tolerance? Left behind are the most important questions: Are lives being saved? Are people getting healthier?"
After a long process, our article — written with @mbabeenchama.bsky.social and a formidable team incl @daniellaparra.bsky.social — has just been published
It explores how racism operates as an invisible but powerful determinant of health in Spain. ojs.sanidad.gob.es/index.php/re...
It explores how racism operates as an invisible but powerful determinant of health in Spain. ojs.sanidad.gob.es/index.php/re...
November 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
After a long process, our article — written with @mbabeenchama.bsky.social and a formidable team incl @daniellaparra.bsky.social — has just been published
It explores how racism operates as an invisible but powerful determinant of health in Spain. ojs.sanidad.gob.es/index.php/re...
It explores how racism operates as an invisible but powerful determinant of health in Spain. ojs.sanidad.gob.es/index.php/re...
[...] the available indirect evidence supports the existence of plausible causal links between climate change and tuberculosis. This evidence highlights the need to [...] include tuberculosis in climate risk adaptation and mitigation programmes #EndTB #tuberculosis www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Climate change and tuberculosis: an analytical framework
Climate change is likely to exacerbate a range of determinants that drive tuberculosis,
the world's leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. However, tuberculosis
is often neglected in w...
www.thelancet.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
[...] the available indirect evidence supports the existence of plausible causal links between climate change and tuberculosis. This evidence highlights the need to [...] include tuberculosis in climate risk adaptation and mitigation programmes #EndTB #tuberculosis www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Fascinating piece!
The history of the FDA is fascinating and frightening.
I wrote a post on what we covered today in my Historical Determinants of Public Health class.
Read it if you’re interested in why Coca Cola exists, how we used to give kids cocaine and morphine, and the like.
open.substack.com/pub/craigasp...
I wrote a post on what we covered today in my Historical Determinants of Public Health class.
Read it if you’re interested in why Coca Cola exists, how we used to give kids cocaine and morphine, and the like.
open.substack.com/pub/craigasp...
The FDA Was Built in Outrage
This is the story of Wiley’s Poison Squad, Sinclair’s Jungle, and the scandals that forced reform—and why we don't want to return to the bad old days.
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Fascinating piece!
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Horrific details emerging from El Fasher, Sudan: pools of blood so large they’re visible by satellite, people being killed systematically. Last week, MSF teams assessed 165 children under 5 fleeing the area and found 75% were acutely malnourished. An accelerating genocide before our eyes.
Signs of latest massacres in Darfur are visible in satellite imagery
Analysis concludes paramilitary soldiers are conducting mass killings in house-to-house operations
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Horrific details emerging from El Fasher, Sudan: pools of blood so large they’re visible by satellite, people being killed systematically. Last week, MSF teams assessed 165 children under 5 fleeing the area and found 75% were acutely malnourished. An accelerating genocide before our eyes.
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An article opening "The last outbreak of #cholera in Britain was in 1866; in the United States there has not been an outbreak since 1911", shouldn't then ignore the thriving parallel market for cholera vaccines for travellers from rich countries. Market only failing those needing it most.
Our view:
Our view:
October 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
An article opening "The last outbreak of #cholera in Britain was in 1866; in the United States there has not been an outbreak since 1911", shouldn't then ignore the thriving parallel market for cholera vaccines for travellers from rich countries. Market only failing those needing it most.
Our view:
Our view:
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Its happening today.
October 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Its happening today.
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A strong case by Lucy Xiaolu Wang for why clinical trial data should be part of the patent examination process.
theconversation.com/some-new-dru...
theconversation.com/some-new-dru...
Some new drugs aren’t actually ‘new’ – pharmaceutical companies exploit patents and raise prices for patients, but data transparency can help protect innovation
By extending their monopoly on a drug, companies prevent generics and other competitors from driving down prices. But increasing transparency can help prevent Big Pharma from gaming the patent system.
theconversation.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
A strong case by Lucy Xiaolu Wang for why clinical trial data should be part of the patent examination process.
theconversation.com/some-new-dru...
theconversation.com/some-new-dru...
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🚨 We demand urgent action: Expand the $40 lenacapavir price to all LMICs, not just those chosen by Gilead. Use TRIPS flexibilities, support local generics, & fund universal, not selective, access.
makemedicinesaffordable.org/no-borders-n...
#MakeMedicinesAffordable
makemedicinesaffordable.org/no-borders-n...
#MakeMedicinesAffordable
September 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🚨 We demand urgent action: Expand the $40 lenacapavir price to all LMICs, not just those chosen by Gilead. Use TRIPS flexibilities, support local generics, & fund universal, not selective, access.
makemedicinesaffordable.org/no-borders-n...
#MakeMedicinesAffordable
makemedicinesaffordable.org/no-borders-n...
#MakeMedicinesAffordable
What do we talk about when we talk about ... conditionalities? "in 2021, Sanofi received $415 million in federal funds to build a flu vaccine–manufacturing plant in Canada. This deal could perhaps have included a requirement to apply for approval of rifapentine with Health Canada."
September 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
What do we talk about when we talk about ... conditionalities? "in 2021, Sanofi received $415 million in federal funds to build a flu vaccine–manufacturing plant in Canada. This deal could perhaps have included a requirement to apply for approval of rifapentine with Health Canada."
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Impressive panel assembled by @msfaccess.org for this upcoming virtual event on "Bridging the gap: Securing access to essential TB medicines in the EU and EEA" ⚖️💊
Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#MSF report on the topic: msfaccess.org/bridging-gap...
Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#MSF report on the topic: msfaccess.org/bridging-gap...
September 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Impressive panel assembled by @msfaccess.org for this upcoming virtual event on "Bridging the gap: Securing access to essential TB medicines in the EU and EEA" ⚖️💊
Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#MSF report on the topic: msfaccess.org/bridging-gap...
Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#MSF report on the topic: msfaccess.org/bridging-gap...
This week’s announcement set the price of lenacapavir at the level of oral PrEP. This is a major step forward for HIV prevention. 🌍💊
But there’s a big problem: Gilead is restricting access by limiting its license to certain countries.
But there’s a big problem: Gilead is restricting access by limiting its license to certain countries.
September 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This week’s announcement set the price of lenacapavir at the level of oral PrEP. This is a major step forward for HIV prevention. 🌍💊
But there’s a big problem: Gilead is restricting access by limiting its license to certain countries.
But there’s a big problem: Gilead is restricting access by limiting its license to certain countries.
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✊Activists demand Gilead drop barriers to $40/year lenacapavir, a 6-monthly HIV prevention shot.
Blocking access in 26 countries with rising HIV rates is unacceptable.
PrEP must be affordable & available to all.
makemedicinesaffordable.org/activists-de...
#MakeMedicinesAffordable
Blocking access in 26 countries with rising HIV rates is unacceptable.
PrEP must be affordable & available to all.
makemedicinesaffordable.org/activists-de...
#MakeMedicinesAffordable
Activists Demand $40-a-year Generic Price for Breakthrough HIV Prevention Drug be Made Available to all Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Make Medicines Affordable
A global coalition reacted to two deals announced today to make long acting lenacapavir (LEN-LA), a 6 monthly HIV PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) injection that provides virtually 100% protection agai...
makemedicinesaffordable.org
September 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
✊Activists demand Gilead drop barriers to $40/year lenacapavir, a 6-monthly HIV prevention shot.
Blocking access in 26 countries with rising HIV rates is unacceptable.
PrEP must be affordable & available to all.
makemedicinesaffordable.org/activists-de...
#MakeMedicinesAffordable
Blocking access in 26 countries with rising HIV rates is unacceptable.
PrEP must be affordable & available to all.
makemedicinesaffordable.org/activists-de...
#MakeMedicinesAffordable
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🔴 More than 100,000 demonstrators participated today in the pro-Palestine, anti-genocide protests in Madrid that led to the cancellation of La Vuelta's final stage. bsky.app/profile/elpa...
🔴 El Gobierno cifra en 100.000 los manifestantes en las protestas propalestinas de La Vuelta social.elpais.com/e5e8u30
Última etapa de la Vuelta a España, en directo | El Gobierno cifra en 100.000 los manifestantes en las protestas propalestinas
La organización anula la última etapa después de que las concentraciones, que han terminado con dos detenidos y 22 policías heridos, bloquearan al pelotón en Madrid | Israel reprocha a Sánchez que “animara” a los manifestantes y la “vergüenza” de la cancelación de la carrera
social.elpais.com
September 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
🔴 More than 100,000 demonstrators participated today in the pro-Palestine, anti-genocide protests in Madrid that led to the cancellation of La Vuelta's final stage. bsky.app/profile/elpa...
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"There aren’t separate words for famine and starvation in Irish: an gorta covers both. To the English-speakers shaping colonial policy, it was important to have one word implying intent and another evading it."
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
August 23, 2025 at 6:13 AM
"There aren’t separate words for famine and starvation in Irish: an gorta covers both. To the English-speakers shaping colonial policy, it was important to have one word implying intent and another evading it."
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
Justo ayer, mientras ocurría esto 👇, en Tenerife tenía lugar un espacio trabajo sobre la política migratoria y la equidad en salud con @javierpadillab.bsky.social , @pgullon.bsky.social @mbabeenchama.bsky.social y muchas más. Entre otras muchas cosas, hablamos sobre el síndrome de deportabilidad /1
July 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Justo ayer, mientras ocurría esto 👇, en Tenerife tenía lugar un espacio trabajo sobre la política migratoria y la equidad en salud con @javierpadillab.bsky.social , @pgullon.bsky.social @mbabeenchama.bsky.social y muchas más. Entre otras muchas cosas, hablamos sobre el síndrome de deportabilidad /1
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Organizamos con Fundación FÜNDEC: “Política Migratoria y Equidad en Salud”, para analizar cómo las políticas migratorias generan desigualdades en salud
@jaimemanzano.bsky.social presentará nuestro informe 'La política migratoria en la UE como crisis de salud global'
www.eldiario.es/canariasahor...
@jaimemanzano.bsky.social presentará nuestro informe 'La política migratoria en la UE como crisis de salud global'
www.eldiario.es/canariasahor...
Expertos y expertas analizan en Tenerife las políticas migratorias y la equidad en la salud
El objetivo es visibilizar el impacto y las desigualdades en salud derivadas de las políticas migratorias, impulsar la equidad racial en salud como un principio rector de la política migratoria y est...
www.eldiario.es
July 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Organizamos con Fundación FÜNDEC: “Política Migratoria y Equidad en Salud”, para analizar cómo las políticas migratorias generan desigualdades en salud
@jaimemanzano.bsky.social presentará nuestro informe 'La política migratoria en la UE como crisis de salud global'
www.eldiario.es/canariasahor...
@jaimemanzano.bsky.social presentará nuestro informe 'La política migratoria en la UE como crisis de salud global'
www.eldiario.es/canariasahor...