© Donald Weber/Atlas Press
Learn how the current model of R&D is failing patients in the developing world and MSF's work to support alternative models.
We continue to highlight where research & development is needed to address urgent health needs in places where MSF works and to analyse and promote new models of innovation that benefit those most in need.

Médecins Sans Frontières held a panel discussion and webcast which looked at how innovations introduced over the past 40 years have improved the organisation's medical humanitarian work.
» Watch a recording of the event
Haiti 2010 © Frederic Sautereau

© Donald Weber/Atlas Press
Learn how the current model of R&D is failing patients in the developing world and MSF's work to support alternative models.
A revolutionary new vaccine against meningitis in Africa
Every year over 430 million people are at risk of infection in the Meningitis belt in Africa.
MSF is taking part in the roll-out of a revolutionary new vaccine against meningitis in the so-called meningitis belt in Africa...

Niger 2009 © Olivier Asselin
Find out more about how MSF has piloted innovative ways to increase our capacity for rapid response in the often challenging situations where we operate.
The most commonly used diagnostic test was first used in the 1880s!