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New ‘Patent Opposition Database’ aims to boost access to medicines in countries increasingly hit by high drug prices Geneva, October 5, 2012 – The international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders has launched an online resource to help civil society and patient groups in developing countries challenge unwarranted drug patents. … Read more
“What I am doing here?” was the question that clicked into my mind on landing at Hargeisa airport. I had been looking out of the aeroplane window to see if it was a big town, and was astonished to find that I could hardly see the runway and was in for a bumpy landing. © … Read more
© MSF Vanlalsiam, a teenage boy, recovers from a complex HIV and TB infection. Fiona Fisher, MSF’s doctor in Manipur where the boy was treated, tells about the fight put up by the boy and her medical team for his health. Vanlalsiam’s grandmother takes care of him as his parents and two siblings have all … Read more
An Interview with André Heller, MSF head of mission in South Sudan Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) work in Yida camp is proving effective. MSF has reduced the mortality rate in the camp, which is now the home of families seeking refuge from conflict and food insecurity in Sudan. However, living conditions remain a concern, as … Read more
NEW DELHI/GENEVA/NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012—The Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis heads to the Indian Supreme Court today in New Delhi, in a final bid to undermine a key public health safeguard in Indian patent law specifically designed to prevent drug companies from abusive patenting practices that keep medicine prices high, the international medical humanitarian organization … Read more
Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis heads to the Indian Supreme Court today in New Delhi, in a final bid to undermine a key public health safeguard in Indian patent law specifically designed to prevent drug companies from abusive patenting practices which keep medicine prices high. If successful, the move would have a devastating impact on access … Read more
KABUL/NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012—Following a major explosion today in the city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, more than two dozen people arrived at a surgical hospital run by the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders. Thirteen people who suffered severe blast injuries were dead on arrival at the … Read more
WASHINGTON, DC/NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 8, 2012 – The Fulbright Association presented its 2012 J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the international medical humanitarian organization. The formal award ceremony took place on September 8, 2012, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The award, a $50,000 prize, … Read more
First Time Prize Awarded to Organization, Rather Than to an Individual WASHINGTON, DC/NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012—The Fulbright Association will present its 2012 J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding to the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders. The formal award ceremony is scheduled for September 8, 2012, at … Read more
Geneva/New Delhi, September 3, 2012 – German pharmaceutical company Bayer today heads to India’s Intellectual Property Appellate Board in Chennai in a bid to overturn a compulsory licence that has allowed more affordable generic versions of sorafenib tosylate, a cancer drug patented by Bayer, to be produced in the interests of public health. International humanitarian … Read more