With a massive vaccination campaign underway in Burkina Faso, the required funds for obtaining the missing meningitis vaccines are still largely insufficient. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the international medical organisation that is supporting the authorities in the country in containing the...
In Karakalpakstan, a semi-autonomous region of Uzbekistan, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has been running a project treating multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) since 2003. MDR-TB is a debilitating disease and requires lengthy treatment with a complex combination of toxic drugs, which often...
MSF shows drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment succeeds in barely half of all patients, and warns of the emergency where HIV is rampant The international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today released statistics showing that even under optimised conditions, treatment will...
The international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today denounced Abbott Laboratories' decision not to market its new medicines in Thailand. The Chicago-based multinational pharmaceutical company has cited Thailand's use of compulsory licenses as a reason for taking...
For the Wall Street Journal (Bangkok's Drug War Goes Global, March 7, 2007) to assert that by issuing compulsory licenses on AIDS and heart medicines, Thailand is committing a "seizure of foreign drug patents" is inaccurate and misleading. And, calling those who support a country's right to utilize...
Abbott is now doing what drug companies have long threatened to do when developing countries use lawful flexibilities to access more affordable generic medicines - it is threatening to take its marbles and go home. Unfortunately, however, Abbott is not playing marbles, it is playing a deadly game...
Médecins Sans Frontières has just learnt with great satisfaction of the judgement handed down by the Court of First Instance of the Republic and Canton of Geneva concerning the case brought against it by the Netherlands Government. This lawsuit involved the reimbursement of a ransom paid by the...
"It is time for the Bangladeshi authorities to work together with members of the international community to deal with a problem that has already been there for 15 years." Having fled persecution in Myanmar and lived in appalling conditions for many years in Bangladesh, hundreds of refugee families...
Over 350,000 people worldwide voiced concern about the impact Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis' legal challenge against the Indian government could have on access to essential medicines across the globe. Joining in to call upon the company to drop the case, they included Archbishop Desmond...
MSF-HK Board Accepted the Resignation of Dr. Tsz-wah Tse as President The Board of Médecins Sans Frontières Hong Kong (MSF-HK) accepted the resignation of Dr. Tsz-wah Tse as the President of MSF-HK due to work-related commitments. Ms. Carmen Lee, Vice-president of MSF-HK, is the Acting President...
