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Evergreening, Extension of Expired Patents effects on access to medicines

A patent is a form of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, selling and importing an invention for a limited period of years, in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention. Extending expired patents using crooked ways by big Pharma is killing people all over the world. Agencies in government and our regional bodies are sleeping in their jobs some even sleeping with big Pharma. Out dated agreements need to be reviewed and ratified to protect the poor and vulnerable so that they can access medicine. We can not talk of UHC without looking the patent laws which are a big barrier to access affordable treatment and medicines. #Fixpatentlaws
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Putting community at the forefront

Living positive each and every day is not a walk in the park. You face all the odds from unlikely quarters, some are your friends, colleagues, family etc. Everyday I receive phonecalls on crosscutting issues from meds stockouts, #GBV, lost to follow, none adherence to #HIV and #TB meds,human rights violations and supporting Grassroot advocates.I do all this on voluntary basis thanks to organizations like @KELINKenya, @gnpplus through Candlelight Memorial for entrusting me as National Coordinator for Kenya. National Aids Control Council Kenya 🇰🇪 and Centre for Global Health and Research, Kisumu Kenya 🇰🇪 as a representative of people living with HIV in the Community Advisory Board 

My heart is in the Grassroots . Unknown to many this is where we need a lot of investment unfortunately there is none or people with power do not simply care to tap the wealth of knowledge in  communities as they are academic

. Mere talk and lots of literature without practical aspect is failing us. 

There is need for reorganization for the infected and affected communities at the #Grassroots to take charge and do away with #AIDS by 2030. Let communities be at the centre not the sidelines. Don't give up the fight