The market for unused test strips – bought from those with insurance and on-sold to those without. Photo credit Devin Chalmers, East Oakland 2020 Imagine your drinking water supply was safe some days, and highly contaminated on others. The only way to know—and respond by either treating it or not—would be to test it. And […]

Open Insulin is always looking for new volunteers! How to get started? Join us for own on our monthly New Member Info Session every last Sunday of the month at 10:30 AM. Next New member meeting: Sunday, July 26th – 10:30 AM PT Register via Zoom here If you have an idea how you can […]

El acceso a la insulina es difícil, el 50% de los diabéticos en el mundo no pueden comprar y consumir Insulina de forma debida. Sin acceso diario ni cantidad suficiente a la insulina, un diabético puede sufrir grande consecuencias para su salud que puede provocar la muerte. Tres farmacéuticas producen el 90% de la insulina […]

In the age of COVID, we have seen how fragile our health systems are, who bears the heaviest burden of the crisis, and how people are coming  together to help each other through mutual aid. We discussed  parallel topics that are all too relevant for those whose lives are dependent on insulin and what the […]

Recently, we published a blog that addressed the question of how many people with diabetes would a  small-scale system could serve. Through our calculation, we estimated that a small-scale production system could serve an expected total of 13,000 people with diabetes; the estimates range from 4,000 to 45,000. In this post, we would like to […]