Over 100 organizations and more than 200 individuals including former Médecins Sans Frontières staff members have called on the organization’s leaders to reverse a decision to shut down its unit that advocates for access to lifesaving medicines.
In a public letter, they said the decision to close the Access Campaign project “will cause catastrophic and irreparable damage to access to health technologies for communities served by MSF projects and beyond.”
They see it as “another setback to the already-shrinking patient activist and civil society space critical to holding pharmaceutical companies and governments accountable so that medicines are never a luxury.”
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Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo
Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.
