We’ve seen disastrous inequities in access to medical products during the COVID-19 pandemic. The UK Government stress that they will do everything they can to ensure better access for all – so why are they still blocking proposals that could help tackle these issues?
🧵 💥TODAY💥 we have signed on to this open-letter to the UK government criticising its position and what has been a deeply flawed consultation process with us and other UK civil society organisations on the #TRIPSwaiver negotiations.

@annietrev @SimonManleyFCDO

Here is why:

Hi @HomeOffice, as you’re well aware, last Friday a fire broke out at #NapierBarracks in Kent, a former military site your department repurposed as emergency accommodation for people seeking asylum.

THREAD 👇 1/11 For many years we’ve witnessed the horrendous conditions that refugees and migrants in Europe have been subjected to, whether in northern France, at sea in the Mediterranean, stranded on the Greek islands and across the Balkans.
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Thread on the current situation in #Raqqa city, Syria 👇👇 Improvised explosive devices are littered across the city and surrounding neighbourhoods. In the first week of 2018, our teams in #Syria treated 33 patients with blast injuries from Raqqa. 13 of the 33 patients MSF treated were children.