Items tagged with Advocacy
MSF statement on a donation of TB drugs from Otsuka Pharmaceuticals (post)
19 February 2016 - MSF appreciates Otsuka Pharmaceuticals’ donation of 400 treatments of a novel drug, delamanid, which enables MSF and its partners to initially treat a specific number of MDR-TB patients worldwide.
TB Europe Coalition addresses European Parliament Health Committee on donor transition in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (post)
On 17th of February 2016, the Health Working Group of the European Parliament Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Security (ENVI) organised a workshop on EU response to communicable diseases.
Major pledge by European Commission signals strong replenishment for the Global Fund (post)
BRUSSELS, 03 March 2016 – The European Commission announced a pledge of €470 million for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for the three-year period beginning in 2017, an increase of €100 million, or 27 percent, over their previous contribution.
Patients of Ukraine celebrate access to tuberculosis medications (post)
After relentless advocacy by patient groups in Ukraine, a partnership between the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Ukraine Ministry of Health has resulted in the successful procurement of first and second-line drugs for tuberculosis (TB). Through their open bidding process, UNDP was able to secure significantly lower prices for 15 of the 18 TB medicines they will purchase on behalf of Ukraine, and save USD 1 million, which could be reinvested to treat an additional 28,000 patients with drug-sensitive TB or 700 patients with drug-resistant TB. Delivery of the first shipment of medicines is expected as early as April.
Enter a competition for the best decorated face mask of World TB Day 2016 (post)
Closing date: March 29, 2016
MSF welcomes Ministry of Commerce clarification on compulsory licensing: warns US pressure on India will continue (post)
New Delhi, 23 March 2016 - The Indian Government recently responded to media reports that they had assured the US India Business Council that they would not grant compulsory licences on medicines - overriding a patent to allow for the production of affordable generic versions of medicines under licence - in the future.
MSF responds to Indian Health Ministry’s notification on ban of 344 fixed dose combinations drugs (post)
“MSF welcomes the Indian Ministry of Health’s 10th March notification [i] on the prohibition of manufacture, sale and distribution of certain fixed dose combination (FDCs) drugs that put public health and lives of people at risk. The list of banned drugs includes several FDCs containing multiple antibiotics that have long been used injudiciously, contributing to the development of resistant strains of infection-causing bacteria.
The Zika loopholes (post)
March 25, 2016 - Last week, the Senate voted to add Zika to the list of neglected diseases for which pharmaceutical companies and other entities doing research and development for neglected diseases can receive a fast-track review for another product from the Food and Drug Administration. At first glance this seems like an apt move—the program was designedto encourage the development of treatments and vaccines for neglected diseases, and Zika is a disease for which there are currently no treatments or vaccines.
Kenya: Victory for TB patients as court declares that TB is not a crime (post)
March 24, 2016 - The High Court has in a judgment delivered today declared that the practice of confining TB patients in prisons for purposes of treatment is unlawful and unconstitutional. Justice Mumbi Ngugi ruled that imprisonment of TB patients is unlawful, unconstitutional and a violation of their fundamental human rights to movement, dignity and security. The court has ordered an immediate stop to this practice.
Why India needs to show some spine (post)
In the area of intellectual property, public health and access to medicines, the Narendra Modi government should consider its independence to be of the utmost importance.
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