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ACCESS To medicines

Today, one-third of the world's population lacks access to essential medicines; in the poorest parts of Africa and Asia this figure rises to one-half. Too often in the countries where MSF works, we cannot treat our patients because the medicines are too expensive or they are no longer produced. Sometimes, the only drugs we have are highly-toxic or ineffective, and nobody is looking for a better cure. Since 1999, MSF has been campaigning internationally to find long-term, sustainable solutions to this crisis. › more on access to medicines

MSF - Access to Essential Medicines Campaign website

» UN Food Crisis Summit Must Move Beyond Old Ineffective Recipes › Press Release › 02/06/08
» Call for political courage to shake up medical R&D system › Press Release › 28.04.08
» MSF Welcomes New Fixed-Dose Combination Against Malaria › Feature › 17.04.08
» Democratic republic Congo: MSF treats patients at the Masisi hospital, North Kivu › Feature ›    06/09/07
» MSF Trauma Center Admits 71 Gunshot Victims Over Two Weeks in Port Harcourt, Nigeria ›    Project › 13/08/07
» Earthquake in Peru › Feature › 24/08/07
» Sierra Leone: MSF reduces its presence › Project › 14/08/07
» Cameroon – Critical nutritional situation for Central African refugees › Press Release › 01/08/07
» Mogadishu: new wave of violence prevents people from getting medical assistance › Feature    › 25/07/07
» Medecins Sans Frontieres provides vital assistance to areas devasted by Pakistan floods ›    Feature › 23/07/07
» Java Earthquake: Rehabilitation of the wounded still a priority › Feature › July 07
» MSF Aid Worker Killed in the Central African Republic › Press Release › 12/06/07
» Treating HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe › Feature › June 07
» In Somalia, MSF is extremely concerned as tens of thousands of displaced, fleeing violence    in Mogadishu, face critical humanitarian needs › Press Release › 24/04/07
» First week, first mission, Trish Schwerdtle in South Sudan › Letter › April 07
» Burkina Faso: Response from international donorS to meningitis epidemic unacceptably    slow › Press Release › 26/03/07
»Somalia – MSF resumes activities in Dinsor, new project opens in Beledweyne › Feature ›   26/01/07
» After a Week of Intense Fighting in Somalia, MSF is Extremely Concerned About the Security of    Medical Staff and Safety of Patients › Press Release › 28/12/06
» Attack in Eastern Chad Forces Displaced Persons to Flee Again › Press Release › 20/11/06
» MSF letter to Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis › Letter › 19/10/06
» Abbott picks and chooses which patients get crucial new version of AIDS drug in developing    countries › Press Release › 06/07/06
» Growing cholera outbreak in Angola: MSF urges government to take stronger action › Feature     › 07/04/06
» MSF urges Novartis to drop its case against the Indian government - Case will negatively    impact access to medicines for millions across the world › Press Release› 15/03/06
» Access denied to crucial new HIV/AIDS drugs › Press Release› 15/03/06
» Humanitarian situation deteriorates in northern Uganda › Letter › Jan 06
» The mobile clinics of Nimba in Liberia › Project › 14/11/05
» Cote d'Ivoire in crisis: the challenges for MSF› Project › 01/11/05
» MSF starts an intervention in Citè Soleil, one of the most deprived Haitian slums › Project ›    Sep 2005
» Afghanistan MSF staff’s murder: main suspect released on bail › Press Release › 26/09/06
» HIV/AIDS in Latin America - Virus in Paradise › Feature › Aug 2005
» Niger food crisis: Pay or die › Feature › July 05
» A complex challenge to treating Tuberculosis in a forgotten land › Project › Jun 2005
» Displaced Colombians Struggle to Survive in Urban Slums › Feature › June 05
» People in northern Katanga, DRC, face persistent insecurity › Feature › June 05
» Southern Sudan: Starvation takes hold in a land where leaves are the only food › Project ›    June 05
» Humanitarian disaster continues in northern Uganda › Project › May 05
» Ivory Coast : STI Crisis in the West Fuelling AIDS › Feature › April 05
» Myanmar :: Breaking down barriers to disease in remote areas › Project › Feb 05
» Burundi :: MSF reacts to new cholera outbreak › Project › Jan 05
» South Sudan: new project to combat ‘black sickness’ in southern Sudan › Project › October 04

 


 

 

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