© 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.

Our field teams lack the appropriate drugs, diagnostics and vaccines needed to treat patients. MSF's new briefing explains how today's model of R&D is failing people in developing countries and outlines what a convention on health R&D could look like and its benefits. » READ MORE
Ethiopia 2010 © Michael Tsegaye

© 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.
A standard diagnostic test children for does not exist