1999 was a pivotal time in global public health: Antiretroviral medicines had just emerged as a successful treatment for HIV/AIDS, drastically reducing death rates for those who could afford them.
But in lower-income countries, exorbitant drug prices made it impossible for most people living with HIV to obtain these lifesaving drugs. The AIDS crisis continued on, causing as many as 250,000 deaths per year in countries like South Africa in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
The lesson was clear: If the best medicines and tests were available everywhere, many more lives could be saved.
That’s why Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) established the Access Campaign – and we’ve spent the last 20 years fighting to make affordable drugs, tests, and vaccines available to people across the globe.
Click here to learn more about the work MSF is doing to make health care affordable and accessible all around the world.
Thank you for being a part of our global movement to provide urgent medical care where it is needed most.
Doctors Without Borders
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