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. 

 
Flooded areas around Pibor. [Photo: Léo Martine/MSF]
Access to Healthcare

A state of emergency declared as flooding in South Sudan ensues

Press Release 1 Nov 2019
 
Videos and Photos

Treating People Amid Flood Disaster in South Sudan

1 Nov 2019
Videos and Photos
 
MSF and TB activists disrupt opening of TB conference to protest drug corporations keeping life-saving medicines from people
Access to medicines

MSF and TB activists disrupt opening of TB conference to protest drug corporations keeping life-saving medicines from people

Press Release 31 Oct 2019
 
Northeast Nigeria: Now is not the time to question life-saving assistance [Photo: Yuna Cho/MSF]
Access to Healthcare

Northeast Nigeria: Now is not the time to question life-saving assistance

Press Release 30 Oct 2019
 
Access to medicines

Panic over scarcity of life-saving HIV drug in hospitals

MSF in the news 16 Oct 2019
 
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Access to medicines

MSF launches global campaign urging Johnson & Johnson to reduce price of life-saving TB drug

Press Release 11 Oct 2019