The GeneXpert diagnostic testing technology from the US corporation Cepheid, and its parent company Danaher, has revolutionised rapid, accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) and other diseases, since entering the market in 2010. Yet, due to the high cost of the GeneXpert test cartridges, many countries are not able to scale up testing for all people who need lifesaving diagnosis and subsequent treatment.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling for no patents or profiteering on any tests, treatments, or vaccines used for COVID-19. MSF has seen first-hand the impact of scarce supplies and high prices of ...
Mass vaccination campaigns against measles and other vaccine preventable diseases are a very important tool that we use to protect children in many places we work where families can’t access medical facilities. But because these ...
Present in the country since 2007, MSF has adapted the way it treats people with HIV and TB in times of COVID-19. In this video, Michelle Daka, MSF Nurse Activity Manager, explains the innovative and creative approaches MSF teams are ...
John Jimis, from Malakal in South Sudan, arrived in Sudan as a refugee in 2017. In this video, John describes his experience being diagonsed and treated for TB.
Luisa Roade, MSF medical activity manager, describes how innovative tools such as point-of-care-ultrasound (POCUS) and GeneXpert are improving TB diagnosis in Malakal, South Sudan.
Feeling anxious, afraid, or alone during the coronavirus outbreak? In this video, MSF psychologist Raimund Alber offers three tips for how to cope with the stress during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nearly all cases of cervical cancer are attributable to persistent infection by the human papillomavirus, or HPV. HPV is sexually transmitted—in fact, it is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections and affects both men ...
According to WHO, cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in Honduras. Learn how MSF is working to prevent cervical cancer in Honduras by conducting cervical screenings and health promotion activities.
If drug corporations are using research funded by our taxes, then we as the public should have a say in making sure that those medicines are affordable and accessible to everyone in need.
Governments use taxpayer money to try to get Big Pharma to develop medicines we need. These incentives are supposed to be the ingredients for an affordable medicine. Watch the video to see how it really turns out.
It was truly inspiring to attend the world’s biggest TB conference in India, standing side by side TB survivors, activists and global health experts to call for pharmaceutical corporation Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to lower the price of ...