TAC Picket Calling For MSD and Others To Be Held Accountable for PharmaGate Plot – Campaign Materials (February 2014)

February 7, 2014

500 activists from the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) picketed yesterday at the offices of the pharmaceutical company Merck, Sharp and Dohme (MSD) over their involvement in the controversial PharmaGate plot. The plot aimed to undermine and substantially delay South Africa’s long awaited IP policy – a policy that outlines several critical reforms to South Africa’s existing patent legislation. These reforms are essential to ensuring continued and improved access to essential medicines for all who live in South Africa.