#danaher

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

You've probably never heard of the corporation Danaher.

That's how they like it. It allows them to Reverse Robin Hood their way to profits gleaned from the world's poorest people.

But that ends today. We're shining a light on Danaher's business practices. And we're gonna keep shining that light--and make Danaher and their Very Private Executives famous--until they stop price-gouging the world's poorest countries for lifesaving TB diagnostics.

[wingslovesfiction]

Look at this saga.

[hannamaytumble]

I implore DanaherCorp and Cepheid to look at the number households fighting tuberculosis and catastrophic costs and decide if their bottom line is more important than human life. #PeopleOverProfits #Timefor5

Global Tuberculosis Report 2022

[bassproshopspyramid]

image ID: the destiel breaking news meme, but after cas says "i love you", dean replies:

cas, danaher corporation and it’s subsidiary company cepheid are still charging tuberculosis (TB) patients in low- and middle-income countries $10–$20 to access quick and accurate testing despite the fact that cepheid’s genexpert machine tests were developed with at least $252 million in taxpayer money and doctors without borders found out that the tests only cost $3–$4.50 to produce. TB is a major cause of death and disability, not to mention that the inaccessibility of these tests leads to the spread of drug resistant TB around the globe.

it’s #timefor5. find out how you can help at tbfighters.org

TBFighters: Danaher, it's Time for $5

Fighting for accessible tuberculosis testing and treatment to save over a million lives a year. Take with us action now.

[thisonecassie]

hey, please sign this petition from MSF (doctors without borders) to lower the price of diagnostic tests for ebola, tuberculosis, hiv, cervical cancer, hepatitis and many more diseases and illnesses that kill millions of people per year because they went undiagnosed. They currently charge upto 300% more than they cost to produce, this petition is not screaming at a void, danaher/cepheid have lowered the price for TB tests in some low income countries already due to public pressure. this petition can make a further difference!

it takes no time, it's just name, email, and country (and they won't send you emails)

please :)

[onthestrangestsea]

Some memes to use <3 It's time for 5!

[mayapapaya33]

I guess we need to gear up to bully/cajole a pharmaceutical company into doing the right thing again soon! If only there were a large group of people somewhere on the internet who enjoyed seeing corporations be held accountable. Alas.

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

From TBFighters.org

Danaher - a large U.S. corporation - owns many smaller biotech companies, including Cepheid. Cepheid designs and manufactures diagnostic tests. Their TB GeneXpert test determines whether someone has tuberculosis and if the infection is drug resistant or not, enabling effective treatment.

Using the "printer ink" business model, Danaher sells the testing machines at a reasonable price, but WAAAY overcharges for the test cartridges themselves, especially the cartridges that show whether the type of TB someone has is likely to be drug-resistant, meaning that even when people can get a diagnosis, they may end up wasting valuable time on treatments that are less likely to be effective because they couldn't access the more advanced diagnostic cartridge, which, by the way, costs the SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY TO MANUFACTURER AS THE BASIC DIAGNOSTIC CARTRIDGE. Danaher is PURPOSELY price-gouging and it's costing thousands of lives a year.

But there's something we can do about it.

Contact Danaher and let them know to put #PeopleOverProfits and start selling their diagnostic cartridges for $5. It's #TimeFor5.

Danaher's corporate office: 202-828-0850

Email: [email protected]

Social Media: @DanaherCorp and @CepheidNews

For email, phone, and social media templates, (and more info and graphics to share) visit TBFIGHTERS.ORG