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In June and July 2016 MSF has been conducting vaccination campaigns in several refugee camps and settlements in Greece, targeting more than 4,600 children under fifteen years of age. This campaign aims at protecting refugee children with 10 antigens and preventing diseases such as pneumonia, which is the leading cause of childhood death. MSF calls on Pfizer and GSK to drop the price of the pneumonia vaccine (PCV) for governments and humanitarian organizations in emergency contexts.

Photograph by Sophia Apostolia

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14 November 2016

Vaccines

MSF welcomes Pfizer’s pneumonia vaccine price reduction for children in humanitarian emergencies

In New York, on Word Pneumonia Day 2015 (Nov 12), MSF volunteers attempted to deliver more than $17 million of fake cash - the equivalent of one day of profits from the pneumonia vaccines for Pfizer globally - to Pfizer's CEO Ian Read. The same day, MSF launched a global petition to ask Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to reduce the price of the pneumococcal vaccine to $5 dollars per child (for all three doses) in developing countries. Photograph by Edwin Torres

Photograph by Edwin Torres

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11 November 2016

Vaccines

Breaking news: Pfizer drops the price of the pneumonia vaccine for humanitarian organizations

Simphiwe holds his first delamanid tablets, which have now been included into his treatment regimen for XDR-TB, October 2016.

Photograph by Sydelle Willow Smith

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26 October 2016

MSF reports on use of the new TB drugs bedaquiline and delamanid

MSF treats more than 200,000 people worldwide for HIV and 97 percent of the antiretrovirals are quality, affordable generics from India. Here, an MSF doctor in Kenya consults one MSF’s thousands of HIV+ patients under treatment.

Photograph by Olga Victorie

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14 October 2016

Intellectual property and trade

In lead-up to RCEP trade deal negotiations in China, MSF urges countries not to trade away access to medicines

TB doctor Irma Davitadze at work at the Regional Center of Infectious Pathology, AIDS and Tuberculosis in Batumi, a beach resort town on the Black Sea. MSF has worked here since 2014. Photograph by Daro Sulakauri

Photograph by Daro Sulakauri

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13 October 2016

MSF response to 2016 WHO Global TB Report

A man holds antiretroviral drugs at an activist meeting in Soshanguve, a township outside of Pretoria on April 16, 2015.

Photograph by Stefan Heunis

Press release |

27 September 2016

Intellectual property and trade

South Africa

South Africa: No more delays Minister Davies – we need medicines

5 min

Drug-resistant patient showing daily drug dose

Photograph by Sami Siva

Press release |

21 September 2016

Antimicrobial resistance

MSF Statement on Political Declaration of the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance

3 min

Fizi healthzone, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, November 14, 2010. Photograph by Haavar Karlsen

Photograph by Haavar Karlsen

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20 September 2016

Vaccines

MSF welcomes GSK's decision to lower the price of the pneumonia vaccine for some of the world's most vulnerable children

3 min