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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

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Ethiopia

Kala azar outbreak in Ethiopia as rainy season begins

Project Update 27 Jun 2005
 
Tuberculosis

Global appeal for new treatments for neglected diseases is launched

Press Release 8 Jun 2005
 
India

The future of generic medicines made in India

Project Update 21 Apr 2005
 
Tuberculosis

World TB Day 2005: Development of simple and rapid diagnostic tools key for fighting tuberculosis

Press Release 15 Apr 2005
 
Global health

The beginning of the end of affordable generics

Press Release 22 Mar 2005
 
Guatemala

New Guatemalan law and intellectual property provisions in DR-CAFTA threaten access to affordable medicines

Press Release 11 Mar 2005
 
HIV/AIDS

Global AIDS treatment efforts not on track

Press Release 28 Jan 2005
 
HIV/AIDS

MSF and HIV/AIDS: Expanding treatment, facing new challenges

Project Update 6 Dec 2004
 
HIV/AIDS

New 20 year patents threaten to end AIDS drugs for developing countries

Project Update 4 Dec 2004
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