Indian generic companies should reject Gilead’s controversial hepatitis C programme Programme could compromise patient treatment and privacy rights Ahead of a meeting in Jaipur, India this week between US pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences and several Indian companies which have entered into an...
At a time when India has more than 1,400,000 children affected by acute malnutrition a pledge to recognize and accept Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) as a medical condition, and to treat it medically at all public health facilities is the need of the hour. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been...
‘Patent opposition’ seeks to ensure production of affordable generics Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports the ‘patent opposition’ just filed at India’s Patent Office by the Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK), which aims to prevent US pharmaceutical company Gilead/...
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'...
Carmen lives with her husband and two children in Mozambique. She is HIV positive, but she lives a happy and healthy life thanks to affordable medicines she receives through a government programme supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). But this month, Carmen’s future, and the future of...
Case could negatively impact India’s role as ‘pharmacy of the developing world’ Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis heads to the Indian Supreme Court today in New Delhi, in a final bid to undermine a key public health safeguard in Indian patent law specifically designed to prevent drug companies...
German company appeals against life-saving compulsory licence decision in India German pharmaceutical company Bayer today heads to India’s Intellectual Property Appellate Board in Chennai in a bid to overturn a compulsory licence which has allowed more affordable generic versions of sorafenib...
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...
Many patients with drug-resistant TB that arrive at MSF’s clinic in Mumbai have received incorrect or inadequate treatment in the private sector. Although this form of TB is curable if treated early enough, some of the patients, like ‘Shanti’*, are in such bad condition that their lives cannot be...
MSF opens new HIV/AIDS clinic on India Myanmar border Last week, Médecins Sans Frontières （MSF） opened a new clinic in Moreh, a small rural town in Chandel district in the Indian state of Manipur that is on the border with Myanmar. The specialised clinic offers free medical treatment and...
