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Update: Verdict in Novartis vs India case on patents and access to medicines due Monday 1 April
Médecins Sans Frontières has learnt that the verdict in Indian Supreme Court case of Novartis vs. Government of India will be handed down on Monday, 1 April 2013. The verdict will be the final act...
Last updated 26 March 2013
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Sluggish response risks squandering historic opportunity to tackle global drug-resistant tuberculosis
People living with MDR-TB and their healthcare providers call for urgent action
Last updated 19 March 2013
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Infographics: Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Those lucky enough to get access to care for drug-resistant tuberculosis go through two years of painful and largely ineffective treatment, taking up to twenty pills a day. Doctors and patients are calling...
Last updated 19 March 2013
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India: MSF Joins Bihar State in Observing Annual Kala Azar Day
Hajipur, Bihar, March 15, 2013: International medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) together with the Bihar State’s Ministry of Health has organised several activities...
Last updated 15 March 2013
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Trans-Pacific Partnership a threat to public health in Asia-Pacific region
Médecins Sans Frontières calls on Japan and other negotiating countries to resist attemptsto restrict access to medicines
Last updated 15 March 2013
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India under pressure from Europe to sign off on trade deal that will harm access to medicines
DNP+, MSF urge India to reject EU demands before April deadline, protest at European Commission in Delhi
Last updated 13 March 2013
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Tajikistan: MSF treats its youngest-ever patient for multidrug-resistant TB
Few children at the paediatric tuberculosis hospital in Dushanbe look as active and healthy as Shirinmo. The little girl is bright and busy as she crawls across the waiting room floor. But get closer...
Last updated 12 March 2013
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Ukraine: Curbing the MDR-TB Epidemic in Prisons
Once considered a disease on the decline, the social and economic downfall that followed after the collapse of the Soviet Union has sparked an escalation of the TB epidemic in many post-USSR countries,...
Last updated 7 March 2013
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Measles Continues to Stalk the Democratic Republic of Congo
This past December, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) issued an alert about a measles epidemic in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s Equateur and Orientale provinces, trying to draw attention...
Last updated 7 March 2013
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As Clock Ticks Toward Trans-Pacific Trade Pact Deadline, U.S. Must End Stall Tactics on Access to Medicines
NEW YORK, 4 MARCH 2013 — As closed-door talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement resume in Singapore this week, international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières...
Last updated 5 March 2013
www.msfaccess.org/about-us/media-room/press-releases/clock-ticks-toward-trans-pacific-trade-pact-deadline-us-must-end