Apply now to the 2021 Open Insulin Summer Internship for High School and Undergraduate Students! To help grow the project and give opportunities to those interested in learning about our work and volunteering in the future, the team is launching a second summer internship program.

The panel will be a discussion between groups that are taking different approaches to tackle insulin affordability. They will share about the work they’re doing, discuss ways to support each other, and share organizing tactics as well as challenges they’ve come across. Sunday, October 18th, Noon Pacific time on Zoom.

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 […]