Overcoming Barriers to Access

MSF applauds effort to ‘take off patent blindfold’ and change patent laws to increase access to affordable medicines Johannesburg, 31 May 2018 — Médecins Sans Frontières...

Press Release – Last updated 31 May 2018
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Nearly 30 US-based groups concerned by unaffordable medicines, including MSF write to the US Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, calling for increased transparency in the biomedical innovation...

Statements, Speeches, Letters – Last updated 23 May 2018
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New York, 27 April 2018 — The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released its annual “Special 301 Report” today, which reviews countries based on their intellectual...

Press Release – Last updated 30 April 2018
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10 April 2018 To: Ms. Cecilia Malmström, Commissioner, Trade, European Commission CC: Head of Cabinet, Ms. Maria Åsenius Deputy Head of Cabinet, Mr. Miguel Ceballos Barón Member...

Statements, Speeches, Letters – Last updated 10 April 2018
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Photo by Siddharth Singh 11 April 2018 — Officials from the European Union (EU) and India are expected to meet in Brussels on April 12th to resume technical talks on the long-stalled...

Statements, Speeches, Letters – Last updated 10 April 2018
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6 March 2018 — The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), two US pharmaceutical lobby groups, have requested the...

Press Release – Last updated 12 March 2018
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6 March 2018 — We, the Members of the European Parliament Working Group on innovation, access to medicines and poverty- related diseases, hereby express our strong condemnation of the request...

Statements, Speeches, Letters – Last updated 06 March 2018
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes increased attention from WHO and Member States to the many challenges related to access and medical innovation that hinder MSF’s ability to...

Statements, Speeches, Letters – Last updated 24 January 2018
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Almost 10 years after the adoption of the historic Global Strategy and Plan of Action (GSPOA) on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property, we are still failing to prioritise the innovation...

Statements, Speeches, Letters – Last updated 24 January 2018
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Photo by Drew Angerer November 14, 2017 - Ministers from the eleven countries* assessing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal have suspended many of the damaging provisions that would...

Press Release – Last updated 15 November 2017
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