Access to medicines

Today, one fourth of the world’s population lacks access to essential medicines. In the poorest parts of Africa and Asia this figure rises to half of the population.

Putting access to medicines in context

Too often, we cannot treat patients because the medicines are too expensive, or they are no longer produced. Sometimes, the only drugs we have are highly toxic or ineffective, and nobody is looking for a better cure.

As a humanitarian organization, it is fundamentally unacceptable to us that access to essential medicines is increasingly difficult, particularly for the most common global infectious diseases.

How we respond to access to medicines

Hope Bridge Foundation works to increase access to medicines by bringing care to communities cut off from care by conflict and disasters as well as those in remote, hard-to-reach areas facing geographic barriers.

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