Access to Medicines

ASEAN and India urged not to trade away people’s lives in trade agreement

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RCEP trade deal could cut medicines lifeline for people in developing countries Bangkok/Geneva – As the sixteen countries negotiating Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement meet in Bangkok this week for another round of closed-door negotiations, public health experts and the international medical humanitarian organization – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warn that the … Read more

Vaccines: Blueprint ignores high prices and lacks ambition

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Governments meeting at the World Health Organization’s Executive Board (WHO EB) this week must seize the opportunity to improve serious shortcomings in the ‘Decade of Vaccines’ blueprint that will drive the global community’s vaccines response in the next few years.  If they fail to do so, key reasons why children continue to be missed by … Read more