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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
 
Tuberculosis

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: no tools to properly treat people

Project Update 15 Nov 2005
 
Access to medicines

MSF urges WTO to re-think access to life-saving drugs now

Project Update 24 Oct 2005
 
Nigeria

Patient numbers increase after key media campaign in northern Nigeria

Project Update 28 Sep 2005
 
Nicaragua

Lessons Learned: 'Chagas disease, an invisible threat in Nicaragua'

Project Update 7 Sep 2005
 
Nicaragua

Know more about Chagas Disease

Project Update 7 Sep 2005
 
Nicaragua

Chagas treatment: Far from ideal

Project Update 7 Sep 2005
 
Brazil

Action needed to tackle the second wave of the AIDS drug pricing crisis

Project Update 26 Jul 2005
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

Waking up to Congo's sleeping sickness

Project Update 19 Jul 2005
 
HIV/AIDS

Prices of AIDS medicines in developing countries continue to be a concern

Press Release 28 Jun 2005
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