African Region News on Access Issues

16 May 2001
Statement to the World Health Assembly by the Honorable Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, Minister of Health of South Africa on behalf of the SADC Health Ministers.

13 March 2001
Senegal-base office of International Organization of Consumers calls on world community to support South Africa in court case.

15-16 June 2000, Nairobi, Kenya
Improving Access to essential medicines in East Africa
Patents and Prices in a Global Economy
A conference organised by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Health Action International (HAI) and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. Click here for conference summary report (prepared by MSF)

 31 August 1999
HAI Africa co-organises meeting on Access to Essential Drugs in Nairobi, Kenya
The meeting in Nairobi on access to essential drugs was organised to follow up on an international meeting on access to essential drugs and compulsory licensing, held at the end of March in Geneva. Click here to read the meeting report.