History shows that the successful social movements are the ones led by people directly impacted by injustice. (Civil rights, labor, women’s rights, anti-apartheid, etc.) Patients like Elizabeth Pfiester and her colleagues at T1International and the #insulin4all movement will be the ones to lead us to healthcare for all. Thanks to Truthout for publishing an article by PFAM's coordinator profiling Elizabeth and T1I.
Nicole Smith-Holt’s son Alec died in Minnesota last June--after being forced to ration Eli Lilly’s Humalog insulin when Alec, a person with type 1 diabetes, could not afford the radically-increased price of the medicine. Ms. Smith-Holt wrote about Alec’s experiences in this February article. PFAM supported Ms. Smith-Holt as she attended the Eli Lilly shareholder meeting on May 7th...
This past week we learned of another person dying because they could not afford their insulin. Enough is enough. No person should have to die because they cannot afford essential medicines.
Save the date! PFAM is partnering with T1International and Public Citizen, to put on a demonstration prompting Eli Lilly, producer of Humalog insulin to answer the following asks...
James Elliott is convinced that the statistics describing the prevalence of type 1 diabetes are misleading. “People say that there is little or no type 1 diabetes in poor countries,” he says. “But that is because all of the people who had it are dead.”