MSF welcomes Indian government standing strong against EFTA trade deal’s harmful intellectual property provisions
February 15, 2024Geneva/New Delhi, 15 February 2024 — In a welcome move today, the Indian Commerce Ministry confirmed its rejection of Switzerland's demand for data exclusivity for medicines in the India-EFTA trade deal, and emphasised the importance of protecting the country’s generic...
Read moreMillions of peoples’ access to affordable medicines at risk if India-EFTA trade deal finalised as is
February 14, 2024Text leaked yesterday shows India-EFTA trade deal includes excessive intellectual property provisions that may require India to gut pro-public health national laws.Geneva/New Delhi, 14 February 2024 — Following news that India and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) – which...
Read moreMSF warns governments are failing to test, treat and prevent TB in children
November 14, 2023Governments must immediately implement the latest WHO guidelines to stop children from dying from this deadly yet curable disease Geneva, 14 November 2023 - Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) welcomed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ‘Roadmap towards ending TB in...
Read moreMSF responds to groundbreaking news that Johnson & Johnson will not enforce patents on key TB drug bedaquiline in low- and middle-income countries
September 30, 202330 September 2023, Geneva Christophe Perrin, TB Advocacy Pharmacist, MSF Access Campaign: “We welcome Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) announcement finally paving the way for unfettered access to affordable generic versions of bedaquiline for all people living with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) who need...
Read moreTransforming lives in Mozambique: surgical treatment for patients with neglected diseases in Mogovolas district
July 25, 2023Nampula, July 21 , 2023 – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is collaborating with the District Services of Health, Women and Social Action in Mogovolas and the Provincial Services in Nampula, Mozambique, to deliver surgical treatment for hydrocele, one...
Read moreGavi must do more as WHO/UNICEF estimates show slow childhood vaccination recovery
July 19, 2023Gavi should waive co-financing requirements for countries with fragile health systems or in humanitarian crises.Geneva, 18 July, 2023 — Today, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) again called on Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance to broaden “catch-up” vaccine coverage for unprotected...
Read moreMSF calls again on J&J to withdraw or abandon extended patents on lifesaving TB drug as main patent expires in India today, opening door to more affordable generics
July 18, 2023MSF calls again on J&J to withdraw or abandon extended patents on lifesaving TB drug as main patent expires in India today, opening door to more affordable generics. Recent deal offering controlled generics access in limited countries does not go...
Read moreShortening distances: providing healthcare to indigenous communities in Venezuela’s Delta Amacuro state
July 18, 2023Rivers serve as roads and tropical rainforest stretches to the horizon in Delta Amacuro state, a vast area bordering the Atlantic Ocean in northeastern Venezuela. Largely inaccessible, this region is home to a large number of Indigenous communities who face...
Read moreTB medicine deal offers short-term solution, but J&J needs to do more for all affected countries
July 14, 2023Christophe Perrin, TB advocacy pharmacist, MSF Access Campaign "Today's announcement by the Stop TB Partnership/Global Drug Facility about a deal with pharmaceutical corporation Johnson & Johnson (J&J), for access to affordable generic versions of the lifesaving tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline, offers...
Read moreMSF calls on Gavi to step up efforts to improve vaccine access for children up to at least five years old
June 12, 2023Geneva, 12 June 2023 – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today again urged Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to urgently prioritise reaching ‘zero-dose’* and under-immunised children up to age five, by removing barriers to broadening vaccine coverage for unprotected children,...
Read moreAccess to point-of-care tests for people with advanced HIV under threat as diagnostics corporations to stop production
May 11, 2023MSF calls on US based corporations Abbott and BD to ensure adequate supply of CD4 tests and equipment. Geneva, 11 May 2023 – In a new report released today, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned that access to point-of-care...
Read moreMSF demands J&J give up its patent monopoly on TB drug to put lives over profits
April 27, 2023Access to TB drug bedaquiline, a backbone medicine for drug-resistant TB treatment regimens, remains out of reach for too many Geneva, 26 April 2023 – Ahead of Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) annual shareholders meeting, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins...
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