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Lenacapavir/Barrett’s Privateers Parody
Original by Stan Rogers, new lyrics by Connor/Beanedict
O the year was Twenty Twenty-Two
How I wish we all had access now
A biopharmaceutical company
Made a new injection treating HIV
Access for all!
I was told to use a drug it has to be sold
Where are the drugs? They’re not here
Now MSF’s confused and the path is unclear
To access lenacapavir
O Gilead Sciences ran a trial
How I wish we all had access now
Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Peru
Would make for them the clinical crew
Access for all!
I was told to use a drug it has to be sold
Where are the drugs? They’re not here
Now MSF’s confused and the path is unclear
To access lenacapavir
And what happened next was a sickening sight
How I wish we all had access now
They’d a-sell to the rich, like the USA
But to middle-income countries they’d say, “No way!”
Access for all!
I was told to use a drug it has to be sold
Where are the drugs? They’re not here
Now MSF’s confused and the path is unclear
To access lenacapavir
But a limited batch of millions three
How I wish we all had access now
They’d a-make available to the Global Fund
Then they wiped off their hands and declared, “Job done!”
Access for all!
I was told to use a drug it has to be sold
Where are the drugs? They’re not here
Now MSF’s confused and the path is unclear
To access lenacapavir
In February MSF wrote down
How I wish we all had access now
A letter requesting a purchase of
Some doses of Gilead’s miracle drug
Access for all!
I was told to use a drug it has to be sold
Where are the drugs? They’re not here
Now MSF’s confused and the path is unclear
To access lenacapavir
The company refused that LEN be sold
How I wish we all had access now
They directed MSF to the Global Fund
But then the Fund’s doses would be overrun
Access for all!
I was told to use a drug it has to be sold
Where are the drugs? They’re not here
Now MSF’s confused and the path is unclear
To access lenacapavir
For ending AIDS needs twenty million on PrEP
How I wish we all had access now
But the global number’s currently three-point-five
And that number is unfortunately in decline
Access for all!
I was told to use a drug it has to be sold
Where are the drugs? They’re not here
Now MSF’s confused and the path is unclear
To access lenacapavir
Still the price of LEN is far too high
How I wish we all had access now
Gilead makes us grovel and beg
For the cost of their products is an arm and a leg
Access for all!
I was told to use a drug it has to be sold
Where are the drugs? They’re not here
Now MSF’s confused and the path is unclear
To access lenacapavir
Now here we lay in AIDS’s forty-fifth year
How I wish we all had access now
It’s been too long since we’ve made the prayer
For 2 Shots, $40, Everywhere
Access for all!
I was told to use a drug it has to be sold
Where are the drugs? They’re not here
Now MSF’s confused and the path is unclear
To access lenacapavir
Learn more at https://tbfighters.org/hiv/ and https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/access-to-LEN
