Medicines, diagnostic tests, and vaccines are lifesaving but only if people can access them. From the point of research and development all the way to the final product, there are multiple barriers which prevent those who need these lifesaving products most from accessing them. Joining us on the show today is Roz Scourse, policy advisor with the MSF Access Campaign. She is also the lead author of MSF Access Campaign’s latest report, Secrets Cost Lives: Transparency and Access to Medical Products, which we will also be diving into. 

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Produced by: Lim Sue Ann

Presented by: Lim Sue Ann

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Categories:  health policy,  wellness,  managing disease,  medical advances

Tags:  medecinsansfrontieres,  non-disclosure agreements,  transparency laws,  the bigger picture,  health and living,  pharmaceuticals,  humanitarian,  health equity,  tuberculosis,  freedom of information,