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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
 
Bangassou - multi antigen vaccination campaign.
Access to medicines

Patent Office dashes hopes for affordable pneumonia vaccine

Press Release 22 Aug 2017
 
The last frontier
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Harsh living conditions for migrants in Ventimiglia

Press Release 3 Aug 2017
 
AIDS in era of antiretrovirals
HIV/AIDS

MSF concerned by high numbers of AIDS deaths in sub-Saharan Africa

Press Release 25 Jul 2017
 
South Sudan

MSF strongly condemns the armed robbery of its clinic

Press Release 14 Jul 2017
 
Snakebite Amputation
Snakebite

MSF welcomes WHO decision to include snakebite on Neglected Tropical Diseases list

Statement 23 Jun 2017
 
DRC - Tanganyika IDPs may 2017
Democratic Republic of Congo

“If we sit back and do nothing, these people will die”

Voices from the Field 26 May 2017
 
MSF Hospital in Bangassou, CAR
Central African Republic

Unacceptable violence in Bangassou hospital

Project Update 26 May 2017
 
Bourbon Argos Rescue  2015
Global

G7 countries must make bold commitments to humane migration policies

Press Release 25 May 2017
 
A Fair Shot petition handover
Vaccination

Investors join MSF in calling Pfizer to reduce the price of pneumonia vaccine

Press Release 27 Apr 2017
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30 August 2019