MSF's Suerie Moon spoke in front of a US Senate Committee on promoting new treatments & cures for neglected diseases read more
NEW: The 13th Edition of Untangling the Web of Antiretroviral Price Reductions is now available download it here
VIDEO: MSF's community approach to treating malnutrition in Niger watch it here
WHO's work on the financing of medical research and development is given a fresh start read more
MSF Letter to GFATM on concerns over scale-up of AIDS treatment in light of Board of Directors Meeting read more
New European Parliament Working Group on Innovation & Access launches with support of Access Campaign read more
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Representatives from more than 150 countries are meeting in Geneva this week at the World Health Assembly. One of their tasks is to complete the work of the Intergovernmental Working Group on Innovation, Public Health and Intellectual Property (IGWG) on a deal both to increase access to medicines in developing countries and to reform a system of medical research and development that has failed to deliver new treatments to patients in the developing world. Access Campaign director, Dr Tido von Schoen-Angerer, says there's still a window of opportunity Listen to Dr von Schoen-Angerer
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Putting Patients First: 
MSF collection of interviews and essays on some of the gaps in medical research and access and some proposals to reform the current system
Read more about the Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (IGWG)
Listen to the Access Campaign's director, Dr. Tido von Schoen-Angerer explaining what's at stake at the IGWG
'What we wanted to see was governments prescribe some change to a broken system, but they have not risen to the challenge. Concrete proposals to ensure urgently needed drugs and diagnostics are developed for developing country diseases have not received support. Considering the colossal needs we see in MSF daily practice, this is a lost opportunity.’ Dr Tido von Schoen-Angerer
Read MSF's statement at the end of the April IGWG talks
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