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Treating multi drug resistant TB and HIV/AIDS in Manipur, India

Access to medicines

Unaffordable, unavailable, not adapted - people around the world face these challenges in accessing lifesaving medicines.

During the 1990s, MSF teams made a bitter observation: we were failing to treat some of our patients suffering from infectious diseases, while in developed countries, remarkable progress was being made in the field of health. Two decades on, medicines in developing countries are still either too expensive, aren't suitable to be used in many of the contexts in which we work (for example, in hot, humid conditions or where there's a lack of electricity), or simply don't exist for the diseases we need to treat.

In 1999, we launched the Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, now known as the Access Campaign. Its mission focuses on three areas: overcoming barriers to access to essential medicines, stimulating research and development for neglected diseases, promoting health exceptions to global trade agreements.

In 2003, MSF joined several research institutes, including the Institut Pasteur, to create the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), a non-profit research and development organisation engaged in research and development of new treatments for neglected diseases.

 
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MSF Access Campaign

msfaccess.org
 
Georgia: DR-TB patients find hope in new treatments
Access to medicines

Public health groups welcome agreement for development of promising new TB drug

Press Release 26 Jan 2017
 
DR TB Treatment in Uzbekistan
Access to medicines

Pioneering clinical trial for drug-resistant tuberculosis starts

Press Release 19 Jan 2017
 
Global

MSF briefings and interventions at WHO Executive Board 140th session

Event 18 Jan 2017
 
Journal article

The alarming consequences of poor quality medicines

17 Jan 2017
Journal article
 
Abs hospital airstrike aftermath, Hajjah, Yemen
Yemen

Crisis update - December 2016

Crisis Update 31 Dec 2016
 
 East Aleppo –  Inside a hospital destroyed by an airstrike
Syria

MSF sends medical supplies to the wounded evacuated from east Aleppo

Project Update 16 Dec 2016
 
MSF ends operations in Zaatari refugee camp
Jordan

Border closure forces MSF's clinic for war-wounded Syrians in Zaatari refugee camp to shut

Press Release 7 Dec 2016
 
East Aleppo
Syria

Crisis update — 28 November 2016

Crisis Update 29 Nov 2016
 
Visit Dolo Ado
Ethiopia

Refugees in border town of Dolo Ado escape drought and insecurity of Somalia

Project Update 25 Nov 2016
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