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Access & Patents

MSF's Statement regarding the 2010 Special 301 Review

Treating Rare and Neglected Pediatric Diseases: Promoting the Development of New Treatments and Cures

Op-ed: G-20 Leaders Put Your Money Where the Needs Are

World Health Assembly 2010

New direction: WHO’s work on the financing of medical research and development is given a fresh start

MSF EWG Intervention at 63rd World Health Assembly

WHA 2010: Counterfeit Medicinal Products

WHA 2010: Public Health, Innovation, and Intellectual Property

MSF's Letter to the WHA Delegates

MSF Statement on the Pipeline Case in Brazil

Are Brazilian Pipeline Patents Constitutional?

India: Will Pharma, trade agreements shut down the Pharmacy of the Developing World?

Free Trade Agreements

India

EC Trade Commissioner's Response to MSF Letter on India-EU FTA

Trading away the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS

MSF Letter to EC Trade Commissioner on EU-India FTA

DNP+ Reaction Statement to Indian Trade Minister

DNP+ Open Statement to EU Trade Commissioner on EU-India FTA

Thai Civil Society Statement on India Free Trade Agreements

You’re trading away our lives! Voices of people living with HIV rise up in protest in Delhi

DNP Letter to Members of Indian Parliament

MSF Letter to Indian PM Dr. Manmohan Singh

Archive

Patent Disputes

Victory for access to medicines as Bayer loses lawsuit in India

Heat-stable ritonavir approved

Profound Health Impact for Small Change

European Parliament Working Group

Events

Lunch Debate: AIDS treatment gap widening in Sub-Saharan Africa: what does the European Union do?

Symposium: Innovate to Eliminate TB

Brown Bag Lunch: FTA & Transit Issues

Related News

New Working Group Launches at European Parliament with MSF support

About Working Group

MSF Intervention at 126th WHO EB on MDGs

Intervention at WHO: MSF concerned about report on R&D financing

Provisions in U.S. Domestic Health Care Legislation Could Limit Access to Vaccines and New Class of Drugs

Invitation for Inauguration of the European Parliament Working Group

Joint Declaration with HAI Europe and Oxfam: Trading Away Access to Medicines

Make It Happen Campaign

Why We Need a Patent Pool

Event

Campaign Updates

June 23, 2010

April 23, 2010

February 9, 2010

December 16, 2009

December 11, 2009

November 30, 2009

November 13, 2009

October 7, 2009

November 2, 2009

Videos

The patent pool could deliver much needed new combination therapies

Introduction to Drug Profiles

MSF workshop at WTO Public Forum

MSF response to India's rejection of patents on key HIV/AIDS drugs

Novartis attacks Indian patent law again threatening furture of access to affordable medicines

MSF welcomes Indian High Court rejection of Bayer’s attempt to introduce new barriers to access to medicines

Medical need, not purchase power, should determine the global response to the Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic

Put HIV/AIDS drugs in the patent pool!

AIDS Emergency is Far from Over

Audio: Thailand's experience with compulsory licensing

BBC interview on H1N1 flu vaccine access

Generics and access to influenza treatment

The U.S. FDA Priority Review Voucher

Take the Patent Pool Plunge!

Letters to EC on Netherlands Customs Seizure

Ellen 't Hoen book: Global Politics of Pharmaceutical Monopoly Power

MSF and Patent Pools

Taking the Plunge: Pooling Patents Could Help Get Urgently Needed New Medicines

Meet the Activist: Leena Menghaney

MSF Intervention at WHO Executive Board 2009

The Global Politics of Pharmaceutical Monopoly Power by Ellen ‘t Hoen

Counterfeit, Substandard and Generic Drugs

Valganciclovir Patent Set Aside in India

MSF Workshop at the WTO on August 30th

MSF statement on FDA warning to Ranbaxy

ABIA and SAHARA joint press release on patent opposition for tenofovir

DNP+ press release on valganciclovir pre-grant patent opposition

Tenofovir and Valganciclovir Patent Oppositions

Pre-grant opposition victory in India

HIV AIDS

After the 18th International AIDS Conference, Possibilities for Scaling Up Optimal HIV/AIDS Treatment

Protecting the next generation: PMTCT programme in Madi Opei, Northern Uganda

MSF letter to The Global Fund on concerns over scale-up of AIDS treatment

MSF letter to Global Fund concerning replenishment in light of WHO guidelines

Untangling the Web

Untangling the Web of antiretroviral price reductions: 11th edition

Interview with Pharmaceutical Coordinator Elodie Jambert

UTW: Interview with Campaign pharmacist

Untangling the Web Archive

Untangling the Web Archive

MSF responds to World Health Organization’s new HIV treatment guidelines

Global Fund Board Commits to New Funding Round

MSF response to UNAIDS HIV/AIDS Treatment Access Update

MSF welcomes promising HIV vaccine trial with cautious optimism

MSF Malawi study: Universal access to HIV treatement under threat from high drug prices

IAS 2009: MSF satellite session at Cape Town AIDS conference

Film on paediatric HIV/AIDS Mathare, Kenya

HIV/AIDS resources

PMTCT Experts Roundtable

CMV The Neglected Virus

PMTCT Roundtable Presentations

The need to switch to improved drugs

DDT July 08

Pushing to access AIDS drugs in China

PMTCT Expert Round Table Report

Sydney conference July 2007

Developing new drugs

MSF Report Shows Up to 500 Percent Price Rise in HIV/AIDS drugs

Malnutrition

Preventing the Consequences of Acute Malnutrition: A Challenge for MSF in Niger

Niger: Going Beyond the Crisis, an interview with Dr. Marie-Pierre Allié

Niger: Taking a Community Approach to Malnutrition

Interview with Dr. Benoit Kayembe in Chad on Malnutrition

WHA 2010: Infant and Young Child Nutrition

Natacha and the Hunger Gap in Burkina Faso

Alexis' Story: Battling Endemic Malnutrition in Burkina Faso

Medical Innovation

UNITAID gives green light to patent pool

How much is actually being spent on neglected disease research?

The U.S. FDA Priority Review Voucher

MSF Statement at the close of the 61st World Health Assembly

Update from the IGWG

Mexico IAS satellite: Taking the Plunge

MSF intervention at IGWG 2.2

Podcast from WHA May 2008

Germany's poor funding of neglected diseases

Médecins Sans Frontières statement at the close of UN health R&D summit

Advance Market Commitments

Comments by MSF on GSK and Pfizer signing supply agreements within GAVI's AMC

Advance Market Commitment: What is an AMC ?

How do Advance Market Commitments work ?

Concerns surrounding the use of AMCs

Comments to AMC donors

Development Today articles on Pneumococcal AMC

IGWG PAGE

WHA May 2008

IGWG booklet: Alternative mechanisms

IGWG booklet: Medical Gaps

IGWG negotiations resume April 2008

IGWG booklet: Calling All Governments

IGWG booklet: Dying For a Test

IGWG booklet: And the Winner is.....

IGWG booklet: Is AIDS a Neglected Disease?

IGWG booklet: DNDi

IGWG booklet:Chagas

IGWG booklet: Advance Market Commitment

IGWG booklet: Doha Derailed

IGWG booklet: CMV

World Health Assembly May 2008

Wanted: Big Ideas for New Drugs

Alternative models: Paul Herrling interview

The Prize Fund Model: Interview with KEI's James Love

IGWG booklet: DNDi Public funding is not enough, public leadership is also needed

MSF welcomes the introduction of a new open-source user-friendly drug combination against malaria

IGWG negotiations progress

IGWG submissions

MSF IGWG Recommendations to the European Commission

What is IGWG ?

UN health talks could lead to new ways of developing urgently needed drugs and diagnostics

A Patent Free Drug for Malaria

MSF welcomes the introduction of a new open-source user-friendly drug combination against malaria

The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative

Tuberculosis

MSF Response to NIAID Request for Information on TB

Diagnosing children with TB: A terrible neglect

MSF sends letters to Ministers of Health on Antibiotic Resistance

MSF at 40th Union World Conference on Lung Health

Cough Up for TB! Reports

Stockholm TB Symposium

Event Summary

Videos

WHA 2009 TB resolution

Intervention by Médecins Sans Frontières on tuberculosis at World Health Assembly 2009

Swaziland: Break the Silence!

TB diagnostics meeting March 2009

Launch of MSF report ahead of International Conference on Poverty-Related Diseases: Broad agreement that more TB research needed

TB Cape Town Conference

TB Research Funding Germany

TB funding report launch agenda

Give us the tools to meet the challenge

MSF TB Research Funding Report: November 08

Drug-Resistant TB: Give us the tools to meet the challenge

TB 'Die-In' in front of German parliament

MSF symposium at Union Conference 2008

TB Diagnostics Expert Meeting April 2008

Conflict in Georgia threatens drug resistant TB treatment programmes

Championing Open Source Drugs: SciDev article on leading Indian geneticist

WHO MDR TB tests initiative

The Cambridge Declaration

Overcoming the gaps in TB research. Do we need to rewrite the rules?

SciDev: Championing open source drugs

Dying for a Test

Tuberculosis in China

New Drug Trials for TB

Other Diseases

MSF Measles Intervention at 63rd World Health Assembly

Op-Ed: Obama administration needs to tackle neglected diseases

MSF Intervention at WHO on Global Measles Strategy

MSF and Malaria

The Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria (AMFm)

Malaria

Treating Malaria

Diagnosing and Preventing Malaria

Malaria: The Next Steps

MSF and Neglected Diseases

MSF Top Ten Humanitarian Crises 2008

Leishmaniasis/kala azar

Film Clip - Kala Azar, A Forgotten Disease

Fighting kala azar in the Indian state of Bihar

Chagas

63rd World Health Assembly: a step forward in the fight against Chagas

MSF & DNDi Briefing at 63rd WHA

Chagas: Time to Break the Silence

Sleeping sickness

Sleeping sickness: is the end in sight?

Vaccines

MSF Oxfam Vaccine Consultation Agenda

MSF Oxfam Vaccine Consultation Summary

About us

What is the Campaign?

About MSF

Jobs

Contact us

Other MSF websites

Media Room

Press Contact

Press Releases

MSF welcomes UNITAID patent pool endorsement

Need to fix food aid to tackle the crisis of malnutrition

Chagas disease not addressed by World Health Assembly - Neglected disease neglected once again

MSF and DNDi call for scale-up of R&D for neglected diseases

MSF halts efforts to open MDR TB project in China

MSF Response to the G-FINDER Report 2009

Kala Azar: Patients lack adequate diagnosis and drugs

UN Madrid Food Summit Could Miss Critical Target

JAMA study shows food supplements can significantly reduce rates of deadliest forms of malnutrition

'Top Ten' Humanitarian crises reveal growing insecurity, neglected health needs

Fractional Dose of Scarce Meningitis Vaccine May Be Effective in Outbreak Control

Nine out of ten children are denied live-saving HIV/AIDS treatment

WHO Experts Raise Antiquated Nutrition Standards –

Malaria: From good intentions to effective action

WHO meeting has potential to impact millions of malnourished children

Brazil rejects patent on an essential AIDS medicine

Children with HIV deserve fair treatment

Mind The Deadly Gaps: IAC 2008

G8 Must Take Action To Save Most Vulnerable in Food Crisis

MSF makes its research accessible to health workers in developing countries

Two-Year Process To Overhaul Health R&D System Reaches Critical Stage at UN summit

Food Aid Basket Missing Critical Ingredients - with dire consequences for children under two

People in Southeast Asia needlessly becoming blind due to a neglected virus

MSF response to Lancet series on Malnutrition

Resources

Newsletter

Key Publications

Field Voices

“Somalia has some of the worst health indicators in the world and TB is not an exception”

Niger: Nearly 400,000 children and adults vaccinated against meningitis with the support of MSF

A dramatic treatment success story from Manipur, India

Children suffer the consequences of poor TB infection control: Six-year old MDR TB patient

“Patience, patience, patience and don’t lose hope!” An ex-prisoner from Kyrgyzstan & his battle with MDR-TB

Lesotho: MSF Lay counsellor and TB/HIV patient Mahlomola Panyane

MSF Malawi study: Universal access to HIV treatment under threat from high drug prices

First MSF drug-resistant patients 'healed' in Georgia

Meet Monica Juma: Slideshow

Treating Kala Azar in Bihar, India

One pill when the sun rises and one when it sets

Maes story: Living with MDR TB in Cambodia

Access to Maternal-Infant Prevention and to Preventative Treatment Makes a Difference

HIV-TB Co-infection: They’re already sitting in our waiting rooms

If you can prick a finger, you can test for kala azar

Sheleme's Story

Kala Azar: A neglected disease

Confronting HIV-TB Co-infection in Lesotho

Ethiopian Food Crisis: Children's Stories

“Life is a daily struggle but for many people this year that struggle became too much to bear”

Drug Resistant TB in Cambodia: Catalyst for Change

The Hospital on the Edge of Town: MDR Treatment in Uzbekistan

Community workers tackle malaria in Sierra Leone

Treating drug resistant TB in Uzbekistan: Audio interview

Living with MDR in Uzbekistan

Listen to Busisiwe Beko's story of living with MDR TB

CMV: A view from the field by Dr David Wilson

Every Day is a Foggy Day

A bitter pill to swallow

Positive Voice: How sharing experiences improves treatment and gives hope

Saving patients' vision in China

Malaria in Burundi

Hope in small places

Busi's Story Living with drug resistant TB

Zaha's Story

Living with TB and HIV in Thyolo (Malawi)

Living with TB: Victor in Thyolo

A doctor's frustration

Mosala's Story: Treating Drug-resistant TB in Lesotho

The milk of human kindness.

Monica's Two Daily Struggles: Fighting Resistant Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Kenya's Mathare Slum

Dr. Pheello Lethola Talks about the challenges she faces in her work

Press Clips

Letter to The Guardian during the UN food summit

The Guardian Weekly: To fight Aids, drugs are not enough

SAM inadequately addressed in the Lancet Undernutrition Series

The Lancet: Correspondence on Undernutrition series

Reuters: WHO bridges rich-poor intellectual property split

Financial Times: WHO agrees drugs strategy to aid poor

IPS News: US choke point for US

Development Today: Secrecy surrounds billion-dollar aid deal for drug industry

Development Today: Donors want more facts before finalising 1.5b USD deal for vaccine industry

Development Today: USD 1.5 billion aims to boost supply of new vaccine

IPW: WHO members inch towards consenses on IP, Innovation and Public Health

IPW: WHO IP And Health Group Concludes With Progress; Tough Issues Remain For

Africa Science News: Mixed reaction as WHO's IP meet ends

Development Today: Editorial on Advance Market Commitment

The New York Times: Fighting Tuberculosis

MSF response to WSJ on Thailand compulsory licences

Campaign response to NYT article on MDR-TB report

BMJ MSF calls for use of ready-to-use food

DPA: New Approach needed for Drug-Resistant TB

AfricaScienceNews.org: Call for Increased Efforts on TB drug research