MSF to discuss medicines access at WTO meeting
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The "access to medicines crisis, far from being resolved, is still firmly with us", says the international NGO,Médecins Sans Frontières. To illustrate its point, it cites recent price increases on newer medicines such as second-line antiretrovirals and the apparent failure of theWorld Trade Organization's August 2003 decision to ease the rules on compulsory licensing.