Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on the pharmaceutical corporation ViiV to immediately provide transparency on the current available volume and planned geographic distribution of the HIV prevention medicine long-acting cabotegravir (CAB-LA) in order to urgently expedite the drug’s access for people in high-HIV-burden low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where it could have the biggest [...]Read More... from Pharmaceutical corporation ViiV must improve it...| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
The following is a transcript of opening words by Jason Nickerson, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Humanitarian Representative to Canada to the Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on International Trade in May 2021. Hello, thank you for having us. We’re going to speak to two issues that are part of the Committee’s study, from the perspective of our [...]Read More... from MSF tells MPs that Canada must do more to address inequitable global access to vacc...| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Signing confidentiality clauses on supply & pricing blocks transparency and accountability Today, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) asked ViiV Healthcare to withdraw conditions in negotiations for a purchase agreement that are holding up procurement of the preventative HIV drug cabotegravir long-acting (CAB-LA) for key and vulnerable populations*, due to the pharmaceutical corporation’s last-minute insertion of terms [...]Read More... from MSF refuses to sign ViiV...| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
In October 2020, we delivered a petition with more than 91,000 signatures to Canada’s Minister of Health, calling on the Canadian government to take immediate steps to ensure fair, affordable and equitable access to any medicines, vaccines or other health technologies developed with Canadian public funds, including in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. WATCH THE RECAP The [...]Read More... from Lives over profits petition: Foreign Committee takes on MSF’s recommendations towards more eq...| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Before patients can receive the right treatment, they need the right diagnosis. Despite their vital importance, access to diagnostic tools has never attracted as much attention as access to medicines. As with medicines, the 21st Century has seen major advances in diagnostic technologies. Unfortunately, affordability and accessibility haven’t kept pace, meaning even diagnostics well-suited for [...]Read More... from Diagnosing the access problem: Canada can do more to ensure global access to...| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continually calls on governments, pharmaceutical companies, researchers, and others to place lives before profits and commit to making essential medicines available and accessible to the patients around the world who need them most. As a humanitarian medical organization driven by the belief that everyone should have access to essential [...]Read More... from Access to Medicines| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
While Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is a neutral and impartial organization, we do speak out about the conditions we see through our work delivering emergency humanitarian medical assistance. We advocate with and for our patients and the communities we work with, driven by our core belief that everyone has the right to access [...]Read More... from Advocacy| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Discover how MSF provides critical healthcare worldwide, responding to displacement, disasters, conflict and disease outbreaks.| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
