Loon Gangte on cuts to global health funding for advocacy: “Lack of money should not be our excuse. We need to adapt! Funding was never the reason we started our organizations or our own activist journeys. Focus on the goal!” #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social @omellouk.bsky.social

Wisdom from #AllanMaleche from #KELIN Kenya on “How We Win: Power, Vision, & Action”: Set a bold rights agenda; Organize across borders; Use all tools; Reconnect locally; Build alliances beyond health. #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social @solangebap.bsky.social @omellouk.bsky.social

Day 3 of #GSIPA2M2025 - confronting challenging circumstances and building community @itpc.bsky.social @solangebap.bsky.social

Kicking off Day 2 of the Global Summit on IP and Access to Medicines with a sobering panel on the upheaval in the global financial architecture for health. @nadrafif.bsky.social asks: time for transformation, rather than tinkering? #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social

Powerful remarks by @solangebap.bsky.social opening today's Global Summit on Intellectual Property & Access to Medicines in Marrakesh #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social @omellouk.bsky.social @nadrafif.bsky.social @charlene-omrawo.bsky.social

There are tea breaks, and then there are tea breaks in Marrakesh #GSIPA2M2025

Prof. Sudip Chaudhuri, Professor (Retd) Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta: “Many good things happen not because of TRIPS, but in spite of TRIPS.” #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social

“Systems never rewrite the rules in favor of the oppressed unless they are forced to.” @omellouk.bsky.social on this moment of transformation. “TRIPS is 30 but our struggle is ageless.” #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social

Prof. Mohammed El Said: “Reflecting on 30 years of TRIPS agreements seems to be a drop in the ocean when we are meeting in a 1,000-year-old city… which is actually a young city for the region!” #GSIPA2M2025 @omellouk.bsky.social @itpc.bsky.social

Loon Gangte on what got him started in the access to medicines and IP movement: “A burning candle doesn’t help the friends I’ve lost to drug use. I must DO something!” And a call to action: “Our goal is life! Human life. We need to stand up and fight back.” #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social

“We are not sure what’s next. Our organizations are closing down. Poverty and politics are interfering with our lives… I never thought that after 24 years of fighting, I would need to be fighting this hard again.” Sibongile Tshabalala, TAC, on cuts to HIV response #GSIPA2M2025

@solangebap.bsky.social not holding back in her opening remarks. “Polite asks and policy tweaks don’t cut it anymore.” “We cannot innovate our way out of injustice. We have to dismantle the systems that lead to injustice in the first place.” #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social @omellouk.bsky.social

Join me for updates from the Global Summit on Intellectual Property & Access to Medicines in Marrakesh, Morocco! Opening remarks by @omellouk.bsky.social @itpc.bsky.social #GSIPA2M2025