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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
 
Journal article

Saving life and limb: limb salvage using external fixation, a multi-centre review of orthopaedic surgical activities in Médecins Sans Frontières

25 Jun 2014
Journal article
 
MSF delivers $17m to Pfizer to get them to drop the price of the pneumonia vaccine
Website

A Fair Shot

afairshot.org
 
Journal article

Impact and programmatic implications of routine viral load monitoring in Swaziland

28 May 2014
Journal article
 
Tuberculosis

MSF intervention on Global Strategy and targets on tuberculosis at 67th World Health Assembly

Speech 19 May 2014
 
Tuberculosis

‘We demand action’: Death toll from drug-resistant tuberculosis must be slashed within a year

Press Release 19 May 2014
 
PCV Vaccination Campaign in Yida Camp
Access to medicines

Vaccinating Children beyond the 'Cold Chain'

Report 29 Apr 2014
 
PCV Vaccination Campaign in Yida Camp
Access to medicines

Heat-stable vaccines urgently needed to reach the one in five children missed by immunisation worldwide

Press Release 22 Apr 2014
 
Journal article

Optimal Evidence in Difficult Settings: Improving Health Interventions and Decision Making in Disasters

22 Apr 2014
Journal article
 
M'Poko (MPoko) camp (Bangui airport area)
Hepatitis C

Global response to hepatitis C hangs on access to new oral drugs

Press Release 8 Apr 2014
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