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MSF refuses to sign ViiV’s last-minute NDA for access to most-effective HIV prevention drug CAB-LA

Posted on by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

Signing confidentiality clauses on supply & pricing blocks transparency and accountability  Today, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) asked ViiV Healthcare to withdraw conditions in negotiations for a purchase agreement that are holding up procurement of the preventative HIV drug cabotegravir long-acting (CAB-LA) for key and vulnerable populations*, due to the pharmaceutical corporation’s last-minute insertion of terms […]

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Oral Statement to Senate about Bill C-41

Posted on by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

Opening Statement – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), June 12, 2023 For the past 52 years, and today in over 70 countries, Doctors Without Borders or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has alleviated suffering by delivering impartial, neutral, independent medical humanitarian assistance in line with international humanitarian law and medical ethics. Here in Canada, more […]

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Flash Quote: Bangladesh Scabies Follow-up

Posted on by manpreet
A patient speaks to a health care worker.

Nearly 40 percent of people in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh have scabies according to the results of a prevalence survey conducted by the health sector in May. In some camps this figure is as high as 70 percent. This reflects what Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has seen in our clinics where we’ve conducted […]

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MSF’s submission to SRSR on Support for the Commercialization of Intellectual Property

Posted on by Siena Domaradzki-Kim
Gloved hand drops liquid onto test plate

This spring, Canada’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research (SRSR) is holding meetings on Support for the Commercialization of Intellectual Property. More information on these meetings, including submissions, can be found here:  https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/SRSR/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=12062854   MSF is concerned that this discussion overemphasizes the monetization of intellectual property (IP) such as patents while overlooking the importance of societal […]

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Canada’s positions on the international pandemic treaty are concerning

Posted on by Siena Domaradzki-Kim
Person with gloves draws liquid from vial with syringe

by Adam R. Houston. Originally published on Policy Options on May 12, 2023 Despite some recent commentary on the federal government’s approach to consulting stakeholders on the proposed pandemic treaty currently being negotiated under the World Health Organization (WHO), little attention has been paid to the positions Canada itself has actually adopted or their potential repercussions. The problem has been fueled […]

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An Open Letter from MSF to the Ministers of Health and International Development of Canada in regard to noma

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Adebowale Murtala, MSF Counsellor Educator and Aliyu, Noma Survivor

  Since 2014, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF) has been supporting the Sokoto Noma Hospital, the only hospital in Nigeria – and one of the few in the world -, with a programme of activities for people affected by noma, including noma survivors and their families. Noma is a neglected disease that affects people, especially […]

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Flash quote: MSF statement on reported close talks between Canada and pharmaceutical companies over TRIPS Waiver

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MSF in Agok, South Sudan.

Reporting by Politico today suggests that the Canadian Government appears sympathetic to pharmaceutical industry objections to the TRIPS Waiver – a measure proposed at at the World Trade Organization to temporarily waive certain intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has time and again witnessed how monopoly rights […]

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