access to healthcare

Access to point-of-care tests for people with advanced HIV under threat as diagnostics corporations to stop production

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MSF calls on US based corporations Abbott and BD to ensure adequate supply of CD4 tests and equipment. Geneva, 11 May 2023 – In a new report released today, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned that access to point-of-care CD4 testing for HIV is under threat because US diagnostics corporations Abbott Laboratories (Abbott) and … Read more

MSF demands J&J give up its patent monopoly on TB drug to put lives over profits

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Access to TB drug bedaquiline, a backbone medicine for drug-resistant TB treatment regimens, remains out of reach for too many Geneva, 26 April 2023 – Ahead of Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) annual shareholders meeting, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) demanded that the US corporation publicly commit now to not … Read more

Pharmaceutical corporation ViiV must improve its failing access strategy for lifesaving HIV prevention drug

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With affordable generics likely years away, ViiV must make information public on supply of long-acting cabotegravir and global distribution plan to ensure access for people in high HIV burden low- and middle-income countries Geneva, 30 March 2023 – Today Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called on the pharmaceutical corporation ViiV to immediately provide transparency … Read more

Malawi: Managing cervical cancer in a country with limited treatment options

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Cervical cancer accounts for 37 per cent of new cancers in women in Malawi. Since 2018, MSF has been working to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer and bring down deaths from the disease in the districts of Blantyre and Chiradzulu. MSF head of mission Marion Péchayre explains how. The high number of women dropping … Read more

Closed centres for refugees arriving on the Greek islands: one year later, “everyone is suffering from psychological distress”

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Trying to see a doctor; getting hold of insulin treatment for diabetes; seeking legal advice prior to an asylum interview. All of these are a challenge for the refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers stuck in the isolated and highly securitised Zervou centre on the Greek island of Samos. Zervou centre is the result of an aggressive … Read more

MSF fights chronic kidney disease in southern Guatemala

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Three years ago, Salomón discovered he was seriously ill with kidney disease. This happened after he was bitten by a snake in a sugarcane field during the zafra – as the sugarcane harvest period is commonly known – in the municipality of La Gomera, Escuintla, where agricultural production occupies most of the territory. At 54 … Read more