Overcoming Barriers to Access

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) would like to urge WIPO and its member states to tackle the on-going challenges of spiralling drug prices and neglect of public health priorities in the...

Statements, Speeches, Letters – Last updated 04 October 2016
/msfaccess.org/content/msf-general-statement-56th-series-wipo-assembly

New Delhi/Geneva,29 May 2017 Background: On 30 May 2017 (Tuesday), trade talks will resume for the India-EFTA (European Free Trade Association) free trade agreement (FTA) in Liechtenstein,...

Press Release – Last updated 29 May 2017
/msfaccess.org/about-us/media-room/press-releases/msf-response-india-efta-free-trade-agreement-negotiations

This article appeared on Business World Online - Manila, Philippines on May 5, 2017 Manila is set to host the 18th round of the multilateral trade deal -- the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership...

Op-eds & Articles – Last updated 05 May 2017
/msfaccess.org/content/intellectual-property-affordable-medicine-and-universal-health-care

South Africa’s Medicines Control Council (MCC) is in the process of transitioning to the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA). New Draft Regulations for this transition...

Statements, Speeches, Letters – Last updated 28 April 2017
/msfaccess.org/content/south-africa-section27-msf-and-tac-joint-submission-draft-general-medicine-regulations

This article appeared on the Huffington Post Japan (originally published in Japanese) on February 27, 2017 Japan, China, South Korea, India, Australia, and New Zealand together with the 10 ASEAN...

Op-eds & Articles – Last updated 10 April 2017
/msfaccess.org/content/what-japanese-government-can-and-should-do-affordable-medicines-world

This article appeared on The Jakarta Post on 2 December 2016. Today millions of people living with HIV in South-East Asia are receiving treatment and leading healthy lives thanks to affordable generic...

Op-eds & Articles – Last updated 02 December 2016
/msfaccess.org/content/world-aids-day-threat-access-medicines-looms-large

This article appeared on the South China Morning Post on October 10, 2016; and in the South China Morning print edition as 'No borders for generic drugs' Dr Maria Guevara says affordable...

Op-eds & Articles – Last updated 10 October 2016
/msfaccess.org/content/aids-revolution-why-asean-india-and-china-must-resist-controls-generic-drugs

This article appeared on Express Pharma on March 8, 2017. Shailly Gupta, Deputy Head, MSF Access Campaign (India) emphaises the need to ensure availability of affordable medicines within public...

Op-eds & Articles – Last updated 08 March 2017
/msfaccess.org/content/op-ed-dont-shut-down-pharmacy-developing-world

Decision enables price reductions and scale-up of treatment that leads to cure in 95% of cases Rio de Janeiro, 31 March, 2017 – Treatment for hepatitis C using the key drug sofosbuvir could...

Press Release – Last updated 31 March 2017
/msfaccess.org/about-us/media-room/press-releases/scale-hepatitis-c-treatment-possible-brazil-rejects-patent-key

MSF and civil society urge Swiss negotiators not to undermine the ‘pharmacy of the developing world’ Geneva/New Delhi, 22 March 2017 - As intellectual property (IP) negotiators...

Press Release – Last updated 22 March 2017
/msfaccess.org/about-us/media-room/press-releases/india-efta-trade-talks-may-make-medicines-more-expensive