The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement is being negotiated in secret, without input from public health stakeholders. A leaked draft of the negotiating text has revealed some proposed provisions that could undermine access
Intellectual Property Chapter and the Impact on Access to Medicines This briefing note details Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s analysis of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) intellectual property chapter draft negotiating text.
Adolescents living with HIV are one of the most vulnerable but often overlooked group in the HIV response. Dr Fernanda Rick, a medical doctor from Brazil, who specialises in infectious diseases, talks about her work
Geneva/Jakarta, 5 December 2016 – As negotiators from the 16 countries in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) meet in Tangerang, Indonesia, starting today, international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF),
On his way to meet friends for coffee, 27-year-old computer repairman Abu Ahmed was injured by a cluster bomb. Four weeks later, his bone fracture has failed to heal. His only hope is specialist orthopaedic
Increasingly drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB) are on the rise in India, particularly in hotspots such as Mumbai. Two new TB drugs, bedaquiline and delaminid, show promising results and offer renewed hope to patients whose
It’s 8:00am and Alice Otiato is walking through the grounds of Epworth Clinic in the bright morning sun, smiling as she greets patients and staff, with a “How are you?”. It’s already close to 30 degrees and
Name : Designation : East Aleppo’s besieged residents have been told to leave their homes or face annihilation. As they brace themselves for what comes next, Amal Abdullah recalls the day four years ago that
Name : Designation : Australian Graham Baker is an engineer. He spent six months on assignment as a logistician with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in Kurdish autonomous Region of Iraq, supporting Iraqi displaced
Name : Designation : Dr Harihara Subramanian recently returned from Uzbekistan, where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides treatment for people living with TB. When I went to Uzbekistan in April 2016, I saw
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