MSF calls on GAVI and pharmaceutical companies to extend discounts so more children can be reached On the eve of the high-level Global Vaccines Summit hosted by BAN Ki-Moon, Bill GATES and General Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed AL NAHYAN, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)...
Central African Republic MSF teams have been targeted and suffered many robberies and threats while MSF facilities were looted. Teams in Batangafo and Kabo were evacuated due to insecurity, leaving the population without medical care. MSF calls on the new government of the country to restore order...
Everyday, 600 children and 4,000 adults die of a treatable and manageable disease. After decades of struggle against HIV/AIDS there is still an urgent need to do more to stop people dying needlessly. Despite available and mostly affordable drugs, tools and models of care that work, is it acceptable...
Decision safeguard access to affordable medicines and prevent abusive patenting of medicines The landmark decision by the Indian Supreme Court in Delhi to uphold India's Patents Act in the face of the seven-year challenge by Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis is a major victory for patients'...
People living with MDR-TB and their healthcare providers call for urgent action If measures to tackle multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are not significantly stepped up, including addressing barriers that prevent both research into better drug combinations and treatment scale up, MDR-TB...
As closed-door talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement resume in Singapore this week, international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on negotiating countries to reject rules that threaten to dismantle internationally-agreed public health...
Governments meeting at the World Health Organization’s Executive Board (WHO EB) this week must seize the opportunity to improve serious shortcomings in the document that will drive the global community’s vaccines response in the next few years. If they fail to do so, key reasons why children...
MSF calls for rapid registration in countries with high drug-resistant tuberculosis burden Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomed the approval by the US Food and Drug Administration of bedaquiline, the first new drug active against tuberculosis (TB) to be registered since 1963. “The first new drug...
Middle-income countries are increasingly taking measures to overcome the patents that price drugs out of reach, according to a new report released from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Untangling the web of Antiretroviral price reductions. In March, India for the first time issued a ‘compulsory...
A Novartis win could severely restrict production of affordable medicines in India As shareholders of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis meet on Feburary 23 in Basel, Switzerland, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on shareholders to urge...
