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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
 
South Sudan

Treating TB in southern Sudan

Project Update 23 Mar 2006
 
United States of America

Open response to Abbott Laboratories letter to MSF of March 15

Project Update 17 Mar 2006
 
South Africa

Registration problems for antiretrovirals in Africa

Project Update 13 Mar 2006
 
Ethiopia

Better access to treatment for Ethiopian kala azar patients

Project Update 6 Mar 2006
 
Access to medicines

Gilead's tenofovir 'access program' for developing countries: A case of false promises?

Press Release 7 Feb 2006
 
Access to Healthcare

WHO Executive Board moves ahead with promising proposal that re-examines health R&D priorities and financing

Press Release 30 Jan 2006
 

Honduras lacks ARVs: Civil society organizes and MSF quickly provides supplies

Project Update 26 Jan 2006
 
Thailand

MSF calls on Thailand to protect access to medicines in the face of US pressure

Press Release 11 Jan 2006
 
Malaria

Two new malaria treatments available in 2006

Press Release 13 Dec 2005
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