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Washington, DC:‘Time for $5’ campaign to deliver 206,937 signatures to US corporation Danaher, demanding a $5 price for their medical tests

Posted on 18 October 2024 (18 October 2024) by abubaker

US test maker Cepheid and parent corporation Danaher have ignored global calls for price reductions and have broken their promise from one year ago to be transparent about what it costs to make their medical tests. Today, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), alongside other global health activists, health care […]

MSF joins noma survivors in celebrating inclusion in WHO neglected tropical diseases list

Posted on 15 December 2023 (15 December 2023) by manpreet

Three years into its campaign to have noma recognised as a neglected tropical disease (NTD), international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the decision by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), to include noma in the WHO’s official list of NTDs. Following a meeting in Geneva on […]

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

Posted on 4 May 2022 (26 May 2023) by jeremy

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 […]

Why Canada should support the WTO waiver to expand access to COVID-19 medical technologies (via ACCESS)

Posted on 26 April 2022 (26 May 2023) by jeremy2

An MSF statement calling on Canada to support efforts to increase access to COVID-19 vaccines and other health technologies through a proposed intellectual property waiver at the WTO […]

MSF Response: Canada announces donation of 17.7 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses

Posted on 13 July 2021 (26 May 2023) by jeremy

Tackling COVID-19 in Lebanon, through prevention and vaccination

The Government of Canada announced today that it will donate 17.7 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to lower-income countries. This is an overdue but welcome step, said MSF. […]

MSF Response: Canada declares donation of 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses

Posted on 15 June 2021 (26 May 2023) by jeremy

Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine donation announcement at this weekend’s G7 Summit falls far short of Canada’s, and the world’s, commitment to ensuring equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said.

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MSF responds to announcement of manufacturing plans for Novavax COVID-19 vaccine (NVX-CoV2373) in Canada

Posted on 3 February 2021 (26 May 2023) by jeremy

As Canada looks to expand its biomanufacturing capacity for vaccines and other health technologies, it’s essential we look not only at how best to meet domestic Canadian needs, but how to ensure this capacity will also help us respond to global unmet needs for COVID-19 and other vaccines.

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