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30 November 2023
How do advance market commitments and volume guarantees shape healthcare markets?
In an ideal world, markets function perfectly. Buyers and sellers trade goods and services. Production and consumption are efficient. In reality, market failures and inefficiencies exist. The impact of these market failures is stark in healthcare, compromising public health outcomes and increasing patient morbidity and mortality. Market-shaping interventions can enable…
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1 August 2022 | News
Partners announce reduced price for patient-friendly tuberculosis preventive treatments
New lower prices negotiated as partners aim to increase access to short-course tuberculosis preventive treatments. Unitaid, The Aurum Institute, the…
31 July 2022 | Insight
5 things you should know about HIV self-testing
CHAI spoke with HIV advocate and Director of the African Community Advisory Board (AfroCAB) Treatment Access Partnership Kenly Sikwese about…
28 July 2022 | News
AVAC, BMGF, CIFF, MedAccess, Unitaid, and ViiV Healthcare announce collaboration to catalyse more affordable access to long-acting injectable cabotegravir for HIV prevention
MedAccess joins partners to speed up equitable access to injectable cabotegravir for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). At the 24th International…
27 July 2022 | News
New agreement secures historic US$1 price for HIV self-test
MedAccess, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), and Wondfo announced an agreement to make Wondfo’s HIV self-test available for US$1.…
30 June 2022 | News
2021 Annual Review: Accelerating impact and preparing for the future
MedAccess today publishes its 2021 Annual Review, setting out how our guarantees helped accelerate access to vital healthcare products in…
13 May 2022 | News
Global COVID-19 Summit: MedAccess’ commitment to vaccine access
MedAccess has reaffirmed its commitment increase access to COVID-19 vaccines via a $100m guarantee for COVAX. MedAccess’ $100 million guarantee…
7 April 2022 | News
New partnership to help meet country demand for COVID-19 vaccines
Gavi Risk Sharing Partnership with MedAccess and the Open Society Foundations will help meet country demand for COVID-19 vaccines. Gavi,…
25 March 2022 | News
MedAccess and BASF welcome positive trial results for next-generation mosquito net
Results from a study in Tanzania show the Interceptor® G2 mosquito net to be highly effective at reducing malaria cases.…
26 January 2022 | News
MedAccess welcomes inclusion of COVID-19 assay in Hologic’s Global Access Initiative
MedAccess has welcomed Hologic’s decision to make its Aptima® SARS-CoV-2 Assay available to low- and middle-income countries under the terms…
