Access Campaign The US Food and Drug Administration approved the new HIV drug dolutegravir on 13 Aug, but drug’s producer ViiV's indicating it would pursue a ‘tiered-pricing’ strategy that will keep the drug out of reach for people who need it, limiting the use and sale of generic versions to only...
More steps need to be taken to secure access to one-pill-once-a-day HIV treatment The recent invalidation by China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of one of the patents on tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF), an essential medicine to treat HIV and hepatitis B, is a welcome step to...
As the US Food and Drug Administration approved the new HIV drug dolutegravir on 13 Aug, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) questioned when people in developing countries would be able to access this promising new drug. Studies have shown dolutegravir, a drug from the potent new integrase inhibitor...
MSF starts first use of pneumococcal vaccine in South Sudan As Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) starts vaccinating against pneumonia in Yida refugee camp, South Sudan, the international medical humanitarian organisation warned that the global vaccination community is neglecting the roll out of new...
Access Campaign As negotiations for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement moved to Malaysia, MSF urged negotiating countries to remove terms that could adversely affect access to affordable medicines by people from developing countries, choke off production of generic medicines, and constrain...
As negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement* move to Malaysia this week, international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) urges negotiating countries to remove terms that could block people from accessing affordable...
Central African Republic (CAR) MSF teams in Batangafo distributed essential items, including plastic sheeting, mosquito nets and blankets to more than five thousand people who were forced to flee their villages after they were burned down during heavy fighting with nomadic herdsmen coming from Chad...
As host to both AIDS conference and TPP trade talks this month, Malaysia reportedly vows to reject a TPP trade agreement that harms access to medicines; other countries should follow suit, and Malaysia should be held to its pledge Countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today welcomed new World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for HIV treatment and called for the improvements to be rapidly implemented, enabling people and programme outcomes in developing countries to benefit. MSF also stressed that increased international support...
Access to medicines issues finally back on negotiators’ agenda after being sidelined for more than a year As negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) restart in Lima, Peru, tomorrow, countries must prioritize fixing critical flaws in the agreement that could leave millions of people in...
