ITPC is committed to sharing reliable information from trusted sources, and creating a safe space for everyone—including communities of people living with HIV—to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on key populations and recipients of care.
COVID-19 Resources
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ITPC Global COVID-19 Update (OCTOBER 2021)
In this COVID guide, we look at what the world has learned about the pandemic, transmission, prevention, what COVID-19 does to people, care, treatment and vaccines as of October 2021.
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WHO warns that HIV infection increases risk of severe and critical COVID-19
Overall, nearly a quarter (23.1%) of all people living with HIV who were hospitalized with COVID-19, died.
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Community Resource for Access to COVID-19 Medical Technology
Activists have a prime opportunity to prevent pharmaceutical corporations and others from additional profiteering at the expense of global public health—and people’s lives.
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ITPC at IAS 2021: How COVID-19 changed HIV Treatment
The impact of differentiated service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the central themes of this year’s International AIDS Society Conference on HIV...
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Integrating Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) into C19RM Funding Requests
In April 2021, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (The Global Fund) launched the second phase of...
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COVID-19 timeline: free, fact-checking & research tool for journalists, academics, treatment activists & others
Make Medicines Affordable launched the COVID-19 timeline as a free, fact-checking and research tool for journalists, academics, treatment activists and others.
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Monopolies causing “artificial rationing” in COVID-19 crisis as 3 biggest global vaccine giants sit on sidelines
The supply of safe and effective vaccines for all is being artificially rationed because of the protection of exclusive rights and monopolies of pharmaceutical corporations.
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Confined by COVID: impact on women & girls living with HIV, their responses & what is needed next (webinar)
On January 27 2021, ITPC, Salamander Trust and Making Waves held a webinar to talk about the findings of community-led research on the impact of Covid-19 on women and girls living with and affected by HIV, including the impact on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Watch the recording here.
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Let’s talk about vax: COVID-19 vaccines
Join host Wame Jallow, ITPC as well as Dr Adrienne Shapiro, University of Washington, Dr Francios Venter, University of Witwatersrand and Tracy Swan, ITPC, as they discuss COVID-19 vaccines.
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Confined by COVID: Women, Girls, HIV and SRHR
Women described the new challenges they face in living with HIV during this ‘syndemic’, where the COVID-19 pandemic interacts with existing inequalities.
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HIV activists are essential to the COVID-19 response
Groundbreaking research has saved millions of lives, but the decisions taken by executives have ended millions of others. Countries should act now, and not to rely on the actions of pharma.
Topics: Access to medicines, COVID-19
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Malaysia and Brazil in the COVID-19 Response
While the two countries are vastly differents, both were ruled by conservative governments when the pandemic began. This report attempts to synthesise learnings from the difference in results and response between both countries.
Topics: Access to medicines, COVID-19
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The Brazilian COVID-19 Response
The objective of this report was to conduct an in-depth examination of key features of the Brazilian response from January through to August 2020.
Topics: Access to medicines, COVID-19
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COVID-19 Vaccine Announcements: Our View
Following on from the BioNTech and Pfizer vaccine announcement earlier this month, where we expressed cautious optimism, but also the need...
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Impact of COVID-19 on women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights in Eastern and Southern Africa
How COVID-19 is affecting the lives of women living with HIV in Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
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Who will get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine?
A vaccine must reach the most vulnerable in each and every country and around the same time. Who gets the vaccine first must be based on need – not purchasing power. We demand affordable prices and fair allocation.
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Impacts of COVID-19 on women living with HIV who use drugs in Nepal
Results from a community-based participatory rapid assessment of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on women living with HIV and using drugs in Nepal.
Topics: Access to medicines, Community monitoring, COVID-19
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ITPC Global COVID-19 Update (October 2020)
In this COVID guide, we look at what the world has learned about the pandemic, transmission, prevention, what COVID-19 does to people, care, treatment and vaccines.
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The Impacts of Covid-19 on Health and Human Rights Among Women Living with HIV in Nepal: A Rapid Assessment from a Community-Led, Participatory Study
ITPC worked together with Dristi Nepal to source, analyse and disseminate meticulous, first-hand accounts of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on women living with HIV and using drugs in Nepal.
Topics: Community monitoring, COVID-19
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ITPC and ICAP at AIDS2020: Differentiated Service Delivery for People with HIV and Non-Communicable Diseases
Solange Baptiste, Executive Director, ITPC Global co-moderated this AIDS2020 Virtual Satellite Session on ”Resilient Chronic Care Systems: Differentiated Service Delivery...
Topics: COVID-19, Differentiated service delivery
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COVID-19 Roundtable Series: Testing, Access and Pricing STILL Matter in a Pandemic
“Without intervention, COVID-19 tests are sold based on politics and profit instead of need.”—Solange Baptiste, Executive Director, ITPC
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ITPC Virtual Roundtable on Testing, Community Monitoring and Pricing during COVID-19
This webinar creates a space where anyone can ask questions during these times of misinformation and confusion.
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COVID-19 pandemic: ‘An opportunity of a lifetime’?
All countries must act NOW to make an effective COVID-19 treatment affordable for everyone.
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Community Voices on COVID-19
The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) held a virtual roundtable discussion titled Community Voices on COVID-19, to create a safe space...
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ITPC leads CQUIN Webinar: Perspectives from Recipients of Care During COVID-19
The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) is hosting a virtual discussion on COVID-19 and HIV, in collaboration with ICAP at...
Topics: COVID-19, Differentiated service delivery
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World Health Organisation: Q&A on COVID-19, HIV and antiretrovirals
This Question and Answer document on COVID-19, HIV and antiretrovirals was published by the World Health Organisation Department of Global...
Topics: Access to medicines, COVID-19, Treatment education
