"Under the new legislation, we will see new medicines only available for the rich, while old treatments are the only ones available to the poor." The upper house of the Indian Parliament has passed the law to allow India to start granting product patents for medicines - something they have not done...
Key For Fighting Tuberculosis Without a simple, rapid test for detecting tuberculosis, care providers in developing countries will continue to miss about half of all the people who need TB treatment. Efforts to control TB globally will be undermined, said the medical humanitarian organisation MSF...
India should ensure global access to medicines As the Indian Parliament prepares to tackle the country's implementation of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) agreement regulating patents on medicines, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is urging Indian decision makers to ensure that patients in...
Women and children in particular have had to suffer from the brutality of the warring parties. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, persisting insecurity on roads and around main concentrations of displaced populations remains the main obstacle to the delivery of humanitarian assistance. On...
This medical and material assistance will target approximately 3,000 of the most vulnerable people who live in isolated or affected villages. The victims currently live in tents in a very precarious environment. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has sent medical support and materials to the...
The DNDi project is calling for applications from interested parties to discover or develop drugs for three of the most neglected communicable diseases - sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and leishmaniasis. The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) is a not-for-profit organisation whose...
High population density in the refugee camps makes the spread of meningitis more likely The international medical aid organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is launching a meningitis vaccination campaign in eastern Chad, following a recent outbreak among refugees from Sudan's Darfur region...
Self-Satisfaction in the World Health Organization's (WHO) « 3 by 5 » Progress Report Masks Its Inability to Reach Objectives Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is opposed to the self-satisfied and congratulatory tone in the WHO's progress report of the "3 by 5" initiative, which aims to provide...
Médecins Sans Frontières Issues List of the Year's Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today issues the "Top Ten" Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2004. Soaring tuberculosis (TB) deaths and the immense toll on people living through chronic conflicts in...
