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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

WTO sacrifices access to medicines before Hong Kong ministerial meeting

Press Release 12 Dec 2005
 
South Africa

The Lazarus effect

Project Update 10 Dec 2005
 
HIV/AIDS

Forcing patients to pay for AIDS care endangers treatment success

Press Release 6 Dec 2005
 
Access to medicines

mendment to WTO TRIPS agreement makes access to affordable medicines even more bleak

Project Update 6 Dec 2005
 
Uganda

Kibera: one of 1.4 million Aids orphans

Project Update 1 Dec 2005
 
Kenya

HIV does not mean a death sentence

Project Update 1 Dec 2005
 
Kenya

The dilemma of HIV pediatrics

Project Update 1 Dec 2005
 
Photo Story

This HIV-positive girl is lucky. 99% of Mozambican children get no treatment

30 Nov 2005
Photo Story
 
World AIDS Day

Children under two and AIDS

Project Update 28 Nov 2005
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