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 Healthcare

Cameroon: thousands of people continue to be denied urgent and life-saving health care as MSF’s activities in the North-West region remain suspended by the government

Press Release 22 Jun 2021
 
Access to medicines

100 years after the discovery of insulin, governments and health leaders have a crucial opportunity to support a new global resolution on diabetes and insulin access

Press Release 13 May 2021
 
Access to Healthcare

Ethiopia: People in rural Tigray hit by impact of crisis and humanitarian neglect

Article 4 May 2021
 
Access to Healthcare

Burkina Faso: providing healthcare in a region ravaged by violence

Article 4 May 2021
 
Mohamed Hussein Bule is a school teacher and refugee living with diabetes in Dadaab camp
Access to medicines

MSF calls on WHO to prioritise supply of more quality-assured sources of insulin

Press Release 14 Apr 2021
 
Nyabol* arrived in Pagak in February 2021, with three of her own children and three nieces and nephe
Access to medicines

Asylum seekers are stuck in appalling conditions in Ethiopia’s Gambella region

Crisis Update 8 Apr 2021