Angels for Change and Every Cure announced a collaboration aimed at strengthening patient access to repurposed medicines and advancing a more resilient, patient-centered healthcare system.
Angels for Change and Every Cure share a commitment to ensuring patients have access to the treatments they need– whether that means discovering and advancing new uses for existing medicines or ensuring those medicines are available when patients need them. By combining expertise in drug shortages, supply chain resilience, and drug repurposing, the partnership will support shared efforts to expand access to lifesaving therapies. Particularly for generic essential medicines that form the backbone of healthcare.
The 2025 USP Drug Shortages Report has been released, and it highlights a troubling trend: discontinuations of essential, life-saving medicines continue to rise.
In 2025, drug product discontinuations increased by 60%, reaching the highest annual total in 5 years. Drug shortages are often driven by single points of failure; medicines that are manufactured at only one facility or place in the world. When products are discontinued, the market becomes even more concentrated, leaving patients with fewer treatment options and fewer backup sources when disruptions occur.
The 2025 Angels for Change Impact Report: 5 Years of Change Edition is here. This special mile5tone edition reflects on the progress, partnerships, and patient-centered solutions that shaped our journey and defined our impact in 2025.
Angels for Change announced a major milestone in Project PROTECT, its national initiative focused on building ready-to-activate domestic manufacturing capacity for essential medicines vulnerable to shortages. Through a new partnership with Medivant Healthcare, 10% Calcium Chloride Injection is now protected with onshore manufacturing readiness in the U.S., helping safeguard patient access during future supply disruptions. The collaboration strengthens domestic supply chain resilience for this critical medication used in emergency medicine, cardiac resuscitation, and intensive care.
May 2nd, 2024, The News on Merit Street interviewed Chief Change Maker, Laura Bray, who shared our story and how our Shortage Crisis Line and Global Supply Sharing Network works to help patients in need of life-saving medicines.
Thank you CPHI Online for bringing awareness to drug shortages and highlighting the work our Chief Change Maker, Laura Bray is doing to end this crisis.
“How do we have a more resilient and reliable pharmaceutical supply chain? How do we ensure that we have just in case supply? How do we ensure that that supply gets to everybody without disparity? How do we ensure stewardship of that supply? How do we build a system that ensures access? Those are all the things we work towards. That's the big picture.” - Laura Bray
The Washington Times published an Op-Ed covering the impact on Americans due to essential medicine shortages. Thank you Jeff Ferry for bringing awareness to the drug shortage crisis, highlighting the impact shortages have on patients and families, and sharing the Change Maker story.
The Daily Mail and Alexa Lardieri covered the impact drug shortages are having on US patients and highlighted the Change Maker Movement.
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Every conversation, partnership, and shared story brings us closer to a future without drug shortages. At Angels for Change, we’re proud to march forth for patients everywhere.
