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Patients and MSF staff perform a dance to welcome new members to the "six-months-meeting day" in Mbulumbuzi Health Centre for the Adolescent HIV project in Malawi, it also monitors all the girls and boy who have already joined the program. Photograph by Luca Sola
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23 July 2018
HIV/AIDS
KenyaMalawiNigeriaSouth Africa

Pfizer and GSK’s HIV/AIDS division, ViiV, prevents children with HIV from getting needed medicine

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MSF TB-MDR patients and Green House photos in Mathare, Kenya, 2014. Photograph by Matthias Steinbach
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20 July 2018
Tuberculosis
United States of America

At last minute, countries pressured to drop language on protecting access to affordable medicines from TB Summit declaration negotiations

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Civil society demonstration against IP provisions in RCEP that can block access to affordable medicines. Outside Ministry of Commerce, Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi Photograph by Siddharth Singh
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Press release |
20 July 2018
Intellectual property and trade

ASEAN and India urged not to trade away people’s lives in trade agreement

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  Sinethemba, 16 years,her MSF counsellor, Xoliswa, at her home in Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa, where she lives with her grandmother, Vuyisiwa Madubela, and four other familtb_southafrica_sinethembawithcounselor_msf177617_sydellwillowsmith.jpg Photograph by Sydelle Willow Smith
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03 July 2018
Tuberculosis
RwandaSouth Africa

South Africa and Rwanda’s leaders commit to attend September UN TB Summit

People affected with Hepatitis C and HIV protesting at Delhi Patent Office during hearing of Sofosbuvir Patent Opposition, February 2016 Photograph by Siddharth Singh
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19 June 2018
Hepatitis C
China

MSF challenges Gilead’s unmerited patent in China for lifesaving hepatitis C medicine

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Sinethemba takes her daily regimen for XDR-TB at 10am each day. She also takes two additional delamanid tablets at night. She is 16 years old, lives with her grandmother, Vuyisiwa Madubela, and four other family members in a two-bedroomed home in Zone C29, Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa. Her grandmother’s determination and love, combined with receiving a six-month trial of one the newest DR-TB drugs on the market likely saved her life this year. Photograph by Sydelle Willow Smith
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Press release |
18 June 2018
Tuberculosis
South Africa

South Africa: A new revolution in TB treatment as the injection falls

The International General Assembly (IGA), June 2013, Brussels. The IGA is the highest governance body within MSF. It safeguards our medical humanitarian mission and provides general and strategic orientations across the movement. The assembly is composed of two representatives from each MSF association and the MSF International President. Each representative has a single independent vote. Photograph by Bruno De Cock
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04 June 2018

MSF Access Campaign names new Head of Policy

A woman dances during a Stop Stock Outs Project activist meeting in Soshanguve, a township outside of Pretoria on April 16, 2015. As a grassroots project, SSP regularly organizes training for people living with HIV in order to equip them on the know how to monitor and report drug shortages. Photograph by Stefan Heunis
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31 May 2018
Intellectual property and trade
South Africa

South Africa takes landmark step for access to medicines

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