Tag: COVID-19 tests

MSF to wealthy countries: Don’t block and ruin the potential of a landmark waiver on monopolies during the pandemic

February 3, 2021

Geneva, Switzerland — Ahead of the next round of talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to discuss a proposal by South Africa and India to waive monopolies on COVID-19 medical tools during the pandemic, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders...

COVID-19: Diagnostic company Cepheid charging four times more than it should for COVID-19 tests

July 28, 2020

GENEVA – Given the urgent global need for rapid, point-of-care diagnostic tests to deal with the continuous spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on US diagnostics firm Cepheid to allocate its COVID-19 tests (Xpert Xpress...