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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
 
Access to medicines

MSF helps develop a simple rapid HIV/AIDS viral load test

Project Update 19 May 2006
 
Access to medicines

MSF supports opposition to Gilead's tenofovir patent application in India

Press Release 10 May 2006
 
Access to medicines

World Intellectual Property Day: Governments should ignore the conclusions of WHO report on intellectual property and public health at their own risk

Press Release 26 Apr 2006
 
Lesotho

Lesotho's painfully slow fight to treat HIV

Project Update 6 Apr 2006
 
India

Patent application for AIDS drug opposed for first time in India

Press Release 30 Mar 2006
 
Liberia

New TB strategies for children in Monrovia

Interview 24 Mar 2006
 
Kenya

Treating HIV/AIDS co-infection: MSF's project in Homa Bay, Kenya

Project Update 23 Mar 2006
 
Tuberculosis

TB patients still waiting for new diagnostic tools and treatment

Project Update 23 Mar 2006
 
Tuberculosis

Five reasons to focus on children

Project Update 23 Mar 2006
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