Access to medicines

Access to medicines

One third of the world lacks  access to essential medicines.  In the poorest parts of Africa and Asia this figure rises to a half of the population. We challenge the high cost of medicines and the absence of treatment for many of the diseases affecting ou

Too often  we cannot treat patients because the medicines are too expensive, or they are no longer produced.  Sometimes, the only drugs we have are highly toxic or ineffective and nobody is looking for a better cure. 
As a medical humanitarian organisation, it is fundamentally unacceptable that access to essential medicines is increasingly difficult, particularly for the most common global infectious diseases. 

 
Access to medicines

As J&J release earnings, MSF protests price of lifesaving TB drug in front of New York Stock Exchange

Press Release 21 Jan 2020
 
2020 Medical Resolutions
Access to Healthcare

Five New Year’s resolutions for improving care in 2020

Press Release 9 Jan 2020
 
Wishlist 2020
Access to medicines

Wishlist 2020

Press Release 3 Jan 2020
 
A boy leads a donkey with water canisters from the berkit (rainwater collecting clay pond)[Photo:Susanne Doettling/MSF]
Access to Healthcare

Giving birth on the move

Stories from the Frontline 13 Dec 2019
 
$262 million subsidy should not go to pharma giants Pfizer and GSK for pneumococcal vaccine [Photo: MSF]
Access to medicines

MSF: $262 million subsidy should not go to pharma giants Pfizer and GSK for pneumococcal vaccine

Press Release 3 Dec 2019
 
Mohamed Kalil is MSF’s humanitarian affairs advisor [Photo: Abdalle Mumin/MSF]
Access to Healthcare

Somalia: “Floods have left people so vulnerable that it’s a dilemma to decide whose needs are the greatest”

Stories from the Frontline 19 Nov 2019